China, Tibetan Plateau, Qinghai
Mapping risk of plague in Qinghai Tibetan Plateau, China
... western China development strategy, the traffic transport be- tween Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau and other parts of China has become much more convenient than before, especially since the ...
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Spatial and Temporal Variations in Available Soil Nitrogen—A Case Study in Kobresia Alpine Meadow in the Qinghai Tibetan Plateau, China
... The study area is located in the Haibei National Field Research Station of Alpine Grassland Ecosystem of the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau (37˚29'N, 101˚12'E, 3200 m), Chinese Academy of Sciences, ...
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Post-breeding habitat association and occurrence of the Snow Partridge (Lerwa lerwa) on the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau, west central China
... the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau, the habitat selection and distribution of the Snow Partridge suggest an adaptive behavior or a life strategy of birds living in severe cold condition at high ...
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Essential Oil Composition of Artemisia scoparia Waldst & Kitag from Qinghai Tibetan Plateau of China
... Soil Plateau and Qing- hai-Tibetan Plateau, and Qilian Mountain (site 2) at an altitude of 3300 - 3600 m, which is located in the eastern of Qinghai-Tibetan ...
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The Growth of Two Species of Subalpine Co nifer Saplings in Response to Soil Warming and Inter Competition in Mt Gongga on the South Eastern Fringe of the Qinghai Tibetan Plateau, China
... Trees growing in treeline areas are indeed very sensitive to soil temperature [47]. Our results from a subarctic ecotone in northeastern Qinghai-Tibetan additionally demonstrate that such sensitivity has ...
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Holocene Asian monsoon evolution revealed by a pollen record from an alpine lake on the southeastern margin of the Qinghai–Tibetan Plateau, China
... Most of the records from the QTP indicate that the climate became cold and dry in the late Holocene, suggesting that the environment of the QTP and the adjacent region was predom- inantly influenced by the ISM (Sun et ...
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Editorial: Organic carbon pools in permafrost regions on the Qinghai–Xizang (Tibetan) Plateau
... of China (Grants 91325202, 41330634), and the Open Foundations of State Key Laboratory of Cryospheric Sciences (Grant SKLCS-OP-2014-08) and State Key Laboratory of Frozen Soil Engineering (Grant ...
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Change in frozen soils and its effect on regional hydrology, upper Heihe basin, northeastern Qinghai–Tibetan Plateau
... and base flow in the upper Heihe basin. This result is con- sistent with previous findings based on observations in high- latitude regions (Walvoord and Striegl, 2007; St. Jacques and Sauchyn, 2009; Ye et al., 2009) and ...
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Analysis of Atmospheric Temperature and Humidity Combining MWHTS and GNOS on Qinghai Tibetan Plateau
... The Qinghai-Tibet Plateau is located in the western of China (25-40 degrees north latitude, 75-105 degrees east ...in Qinghai-Tibet Plateau has been limited, which causes adverse ...
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Surface Rupture and Hazard of Wenchuan Ms 8 0 Earthquake, Sichuan, China
... the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau in the west and the Yangtze craton in the ...the Tibetan plateau have been studied, and the results is the material in lower crust in the Longmen Shan moving ...
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Numerical study on the response of the largest lake in China to climate change
... the Tibetan Plateau (TP), and more than 1200 of them have an area larger than 1 km 2 ; they respond quickly to climate change, but few observation data of lakes are ...the plateau lakes under the ...
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Glacier changes from 1966–2009 in the Gongga Mountains, on the south-eastern margin of the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau and their climatic forcing
... Acknowledgements. We thank K. Fujita, M. Pelto and an anonymous referee for helpful comments and suggestions. We thank the US geological survey which provided the website ...
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The complexity of climate reconstructions using the coexistence approach on Qinghai–Tibetan Plateau
... The Qinghai–Tibetan Plateau is one of the highest mountains in the world with an average elevation of over 4000 m above sea level ...the plateau are generally the Hengduan Mountains in the ...
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Evaluation of snow cover and snow depth on the Qinghai–Tibetan Plateau derived from passive microwave remote sensing
... Large grain size of snow can scatter much more irradiance than small one; therefore, fresh snow cover with small grain size tends to be underestimated, while snow cover with large grain size (e.g., depth hoar) tends to ...
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The Precipitation Variations in the Qinghai-Xizang (Tibetan) Plateau during 1961-2015
... For most stations in the TP, the setting time was the mid 1950s. Considering that the length of research time must be consistent, we choose 1961 as the beginning year in the research, and 2015 as the ending year. The ...
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Sedentarisation of Tibetan nomads in China: Implementation of the Nomadic settlement project in the Tibetan Amdo area; Qinghai and Sichuan Provinces
... The sedentarisation process has intensified significantly after the implementation of the Opening of the west development strategy (Du2006). So far, construction of settle- ments is part of various programs administered ...
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Event-based probabilistic risk assessment of livestock snow disasters in the Qinghai–Tibetan Plateau
... A snow disaster is a weather process with snowfall, low temperature, and snow cover, with certain duration length, according to the Chinese national standard for Snow Disaster Grades in Grazing Regions of China ...
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Phylogeography and allopatric divergence in cypress species (Cupressus L ) in the Qinghai Tibetan Plateau and adjacent regions
... hotspots (e.g. [7]). A few studies in this region have begun to elucidate the process of species diversification and/or trace shifts in the ranges of single species during the Qua- ternary climatic oscillations (e.g. ...
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Among-population divergence in personality is linked to altitude in plateau pikas (Ochotona curzoniae)
... eastern Tibetan Plateau, Qinghai, China ...of plateau pika is about 40 m [42]; therefore, gene flow among the three populations is ...a plateau continental climate ...
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Global Warming Impacts on Alpine Vegetation Dynamic in Qinghai Tibet Plateau of China
... in Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau of China from simulated filed experimental climate change, vegetation community dynamic simulation integrat- ed with scenarios of global temperature increase of 1 to ...
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