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Vegetation on the move: elevational shifts and greening dynamics across the Himalayan alpine zone

Ecography, EarlyView.
This study investigates alpine ‘vegetation line' (the upper limit of continuous plant community) dynamics in the Himalayan alpine zone (HAZ) over a 24‐year timescale (1999–2022) using maximum NDVI products derived from Landsat series datasets, adjusted for sampling bias using phenological modelling.
Ruolin Leng, Stephan Harrison, Dominic Fawcett, Achyut Tiwari, Mike Harrison, Karen Anderson   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Comparison of Machine Learning Models in Simulating Glacier Mass Balance: Insights from Maritime and Continental Glaciers in High Mountain Asia

Remote Sensing
Accurately simulating glacier mass balance (GMB) data is crucial for assessing the impacts of climate change on glacier dynamics. Since physical models often face challenges in comprehensively accounting for factors influencing glacial melt and ...
Weiwei Ren, Zhongzheng Zhu, Yingzheng Wang, Jianbin Su, Ruijie Zeng, Donghai Zheng, Xin Li   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

The land surface water and energy budgets over the Tibetan Plateau [PDF]

, 2011
Tibetan Plateau plays an important role in the Asian Monsoon and global general circulation system. Due to the lack of quantitative observations and complicated cold season processes in high elevation terrain, however, the land surface water and energy ...
Li Xu
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The growth of northeastern Tibet and its relevance to large-scale continental geodynamics: A review of recent studies [PDF]

, 2013
Recent studies of the northeastern part of the Tibetan Plateau have called attention to two emerging views of how the Tibetan Plateau has grown. First, deformation in northern Tibet began essentially at the time of collision with India, not 10–20 Myr ...
Burbank, Douglas W., Champagnac, Jean-Daniel, Chen, Zhen-Wei, Clark, Marin K., Craddock, William H., Dayem, Katherine E., Duvall, Alison R., Farley, Kenneth A., Garzione, Carmala N., Ge, Wei-Peng, Hough, Brian G., Kirby, Eric, Lease, Richard O., Li, Chuan-You, Molnar, Peter, Roe, Gerard H., Wang, Zhi-Cai, Yuan, Dao-Yang, Zhang, Hui-Ping, Zhang, Pei-Zhen, Zheng, De-Wen, Zheng, Wen-Jun   +21 more
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Over three‐quarters of earthworm species lack protection in China, a crisis exacerbated by climate change

Ecography, EarlyView.
Earthworms, as ‘ecosystem engineers', play a crucial role in regulating ecosystem functions and shaping community structures. Due to climate change, earthworms face severe survival pressures and extinction risks. However, whether conservation efforts targeting aboveground biodiversity can cover the long‐neglected earthworm diversity remains unknown. To
Yajie Zhou, Shuo Zhang, Wen Qin, Zhuoyi Wu, , Shaolin Peng, Ting Zhou   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Ultrasound and infections on the Tibetan Plateau [PDF]

Journal of Ultrasound, 2012
The authors report on an ultrasound (US) outreach program for the nomadic people living in Yushu, a remote area of Qinghai, Tibet, People's Republic of China (PRC) about 4800 m above sea level. The program was carried out in cooperation with ROKPA INTERNATIONAL, a non-profit organization (NGO) that aims at helping the poorest peoples living in remote ...
Giordani Maria Teresa, Giaretta Renato, Scolarin Carlo, Stefani Maria Pia, Pellizzari Cristina, Tamarozzi Francesca, BRUNETTI, ENRICO   +6 more
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Tibetan Plateau Grassland Protection: Tibetan Herders\u27 Ecological Conception Versus State Policies [PDF]

, 2011
The establishment of the “Three Rivers’ Sources Nature Reserve” in 2002 - one of China’s largest ecological protection projects - has had a major impact on the lives of Tibetan nomadic herders.
Cencetti, Elisa
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Paleogene monsoons across India and South China: Drivers of biotic change [PDF]

, 2017
Monsoonal climates at low latitudes (2. Fossil leaf form reveals that under such 'hothouse' conditions megathermal early Eocene to earliest Miocene forests were exposed to strong monsoonal climates typical of those experienced today arising from annual ...
Aleksandrova, Galina, Ding, Lin, Herman, Alexei, Jin, Jian-Hua, Kodrul, Tatiana, Liu, Xiao-Yan, Maslova, Natalia, Mehrotra, Rakesh, Shukla, Anumeha, Spicer, Robert, Spicer, Teresa, Srivastava, Gaurav, Xu, Qiang, Yang, Jian   +13 more
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Seasonal drivers of plant–soil–microbial community structure and functions in Western Himalayan grasslands, Pakistan

Grassland Research, EarlyView.
Plant species richness was greater in summer in both alpine and subalpine grassland ecosystems. Soil moisture demonstrates significant positive correlations with soil organic carbon and total nitrogen across seasonal periods. Microbial α‐diversity peaks during summer but maintains functional stability across seasons.
Huma Ali, Muhammad Rafiq, Allan Degen, Ben Sparrow, Zhanhuan Shang   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Significant Impact of Lost Species' Identity, Number and Abundance on Functional Structure of Alpine Meadow

Ecology and Evolution
Biodiversity, the cornerstone of ecosystem functions and services, faces threats from anthropogenic climate change. However, it remains unclear how species loss, including abundance, number, and identity of lost species, would alter the functional ...
Zhiyong Yang, Ci‐ren Qu‐zong, Yuan Zhang, Xine Li, Skalsang Gyal, Wei Mazhang, Ying Yang, Guotai Zhang, Cuo Se, Danzeng Quzhen, Jingting Mao, Chengwei Mu, Lan Wang, Shiping Wang, Tsechoe Dorji   +14 more
doaj   +1 more source