Jian Zhou's research while affiliated with Shaanxi Normal University and other places

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The agro-pastoral ecotone is an ecologically fragile region where drought is the main factor influencing land use and livelihoods. In this paper, we took two farmer villages and two herder villages in Ar Horqin Banner, located in the agro-pastoral ecotone of northwestern China, as the research areas, and where we conducted participatory rural appra...

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... Furthermore, the quantification frequency was also higher in the eastern areas (86.0% of honey samples), surpassing the 66.7% detection frequency observed in the western areas (chi-square test, X 2 = 5.452, P = 0.020). The main reason for this is that the southeastern region on the right side of the "Hu Huanyong line" is dominated by land farming and is more dependent on insecticide application, whereas the northwestern region on the left is dominated by pasture husbandry [63,71]. Another reason may be that beekeepers from the eastern areas make more frequent colony transitions than those from western areas, which promotes neonicotinoid accumulation in honey. ...