1. Environmental and technological effects on ancient social evolution at different spatial scales

   • GuangHui Dong
   • FengWen Liu
   • FaHu Chen

   Research Paper 15 November 2017 Pages: 2067 - 2077

2. Quantitative analysis of the impact of droughts and floods on internal wars in China over the last 500 years

   • Harry F. Lee
   • David D. Zhang
   • Ricci P. H. Yue

   Research Paper 22 August 2017 Pages: 2078 - 2088

3. Migration for survival under natural disasters: A reluctant and passive choice for agriculturalists in historical China

   • Qing Pei

   Research Paper 30 August 2017 Pages: 2089 - 2096

4. Carbon sequestration processes and mechanisms in coastal mariculture environments in China

   • YongYu Zhang
   • JiHong Zhang
   • JiHua Liu

   Review 21 November 2017 Pages: 2097 - 2107

5. Effects of seagrass leaf litter decomposition on sediment organic carbon composition and the key transformation processes

   • SongLin Liu
   • ZhiJian Jiang
   • XiaoPing Huang

   Research Paper 21 November 2017 Pages: 2108 - 2117

6. Quantitative model evaluation of organic carbon oxidation hypotheses for the Ediacaran Shuram carbon isotopic excursion

   • Wei Shi
   • Chao Li
   • Thomas J. Algeo

   Research Paper 21 November 2017 Pages: 2118 - 2127

7. Paleogene marine deposition records of rifting and breakup of the South China Sea: An overview

   • QianYu Li
   • GuoXuan Wu
   • Lei Shao

   Review 29 December 2016 Pages: 2128 - 2140

8. New methods and progress in research on the origins and evolution of prehistoric agriculture in China

   • HouYuan Lu

   Review 22 November 2017 Pages: 2141 - 2159

9. New progress in understanding the origins of modern humans in China

   • Xing Gao
   • Fei Peng
   • Feng Li

   Review 21 November 2017 Pages: 2160 - 2170

10. Discovery of bacteriopheophytin-a in lacustrine deposits from Lake Zigetang on the central Tibetan Plateau and its paleoenvironmental significance

    • HuaYong Li
    • HuCai Zhang
    • JunFeng Ji

    Researcr Paper 02 November 2017 Pages: 2171 - 2180

11. Coseismic Coulomb failure stress changes caused by the 2017 M7.0 Jiuzhaigou earthquake, and its relationship with the 2008 Wenchuan earthquake

    • Bin Shan
    • Yong Zheng
    • Jun Kong

    Researcr Paper 02 November 2017 Pages: 2181 - 2189

12. Daily extreme precipitation and trends over China

    • Jun Sun
    • FuQing Zhang

    Research Paper 20 November 2017 Pages: 2190 - 2203

13. Numerical simulation of 23 June 2016 Yancheng City EF4 tornadic supercell and analysis of lightning activity

    • FengXia Guo
    • Yang Li
    • YiJun Mu

    Researcr Paper 02 November 2017 Pages: 2204 - 2213

14. New insights on the origin of the basement of the Xisha Uplift, South China Sea

    • WeiLin Zhu
    • XiNong Xie
    • Lei Shao

    Research Paper 01 September 2017 Pages: 2214 - 2222

15. Continuous land cover change monitoring in the remote sensing big data era

    • JinWei Dong
    • WenHui Kuang
    • JiYuan Liu

    Highlight 23 November 2017 Pages: 2223 - 2224

16. Watershed systems science—A new paradigm to understand and govern the impact of human activities on the earth’s surface in the Anthropocene

    • Ray Ison
    • YongPing Wei

    Highlight 21 November 2017 Pages: 2225 - 2227

17. Erratum to: An improved constraint method in optimal estimation of CO₂ from GOSAT SWIR observations

    • MingMin Zou
    • LiangFu Chen
    • Ying Zhang

    Erratum 25 November 2017 Pages: 2228 - 2228