The four antelope species on the Qinghai-Tibet plateau face habitat loss and redistribution to higher latitudes under climate change
March 04, 2021 Climate change is predicted to directly or indirectly affect species distribution and abundance, especially the species that live on the Qinghai-Tibet plateau that is highly sensitive to climate change. The Przewalski...
Non-target metabolomics revealed the differences between Rh. tanguticum plants growing under canopy and open habitats
March 03, 2021 Rheum tanguticum (Rh. tanguticum) is an important traditional Chinese medicine plant, “Dahuang”,which contains productive metabolites and occupies wide habitats on the Qinghai-Tibet plateau. Plants occupying wide ha...
Controls on variation of soil organic carbon concentrationin the shrublands of the north-eastern Tibetan Plateau
January 28, 2021 Assessment of soil organic carbon (SOC) concentration in high-altitude shrublands is essential for understanding C dynamics in terrestrial ecosystems.Hence, we investigated the SOC concentration and its influencing fa...
Precipitation rather than evapotranspiration determines the warm-season water supply in an alpine shrub and an alpine meadow
January 14, 2021 Quantified for alpine catchments with different vegetation types. This paper presented a multi-year time series of evapotranspiration (ET) and water supply (precipitation minus ET) during the warm-season (June to Sept...
Early-Warning Measures for Ecological Security in the Qinghai Alpine Agricultural Area
January 12, 2021 The study area of this paper is the Qinghai alpine agricultural mountain area. An ecological security early-warning model is used to identify the early warning signs of ecosystem destruction, environmental pollution a...