Academician Chen Fahu and his research team of lake record from the Key Laboratory on Western Environment under Department of Education, LZU, has published "Aerosol-weakened summer monsoons decrease lake fertilization on the Chinese Loess Plateau" on Nature Climate Change online, a renowned international journal. The research, based on record of mountains and lakes over the past 2,000 years, revealed for the first time that during the Sui-Tang Warm Period (STWP), dramatic eutrophication happened to mountains and lakes, while the same is not happening to them in Current Warm Period (CWP), despite the fact that creatures there rapidly responded to global warming. The research found that against the background of CWP driven by human activity, the obvious impact of aerosol emission caused by fast industrialization in Asian area on Asian summer monsoons has resulted in a response process different from that of other natural warm periods of ecological system of mountains and lakes against manmade climate warming.
The research has provided scientific support to repercussion of manmade aerosol emission on climate and ecological vulnerable zone in Asia, and was therefore determined by the reviewers as “An innovative work that reveals influences of aerosol pollution on regional and global climate and its potential influence on ecological system, assuming significant importance to further understand the environmental deterioration of mountains and lakes and ecological digression against global warming.”
(Translated by Xing Tingting, proofread by Zhang Lu)
