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Mountains exhibit a high degree of endemism and diversity,however,quantifying their biodiversity can be challenging.Similar to islands,species isolation in mountainous regions results in comparable patterns of evoluti...
carried out in the framework of the Ri ST2 Project,cofinanced by Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio di Torino。
In a context of cryosphere degradation caused by climate warming,rock temperature is one of the main driving factors of rockfalls that occur on high-elevation mountain slopes.In order to improve the knowledge of this ...
Funding was provided by the National Science Foundation(NSF DEB-06-42512 to T.W.);UW-Eau Claire’s Center for International Education;supported by Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas(CONICET),Argentina。
Small water bodies are critical for maintaining freshwater biodiversity,but are among the least investigated aquatic environments.We examined physical and chemical variables at two reaches in Arroyo Tambillos,a small,...
In the alpine regions of Hindu Kush,Himalayas and Karakorum, climatic and topographic conditions can support the formation of peat,important for the livelihood of the local communities,and ecological services alike. T...
supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No.41101055);the Hundred Talents Program of the Chinese Academy of Sciences granted to Tonghua Wu (Grant No.51Y251571);the “National Basic Research Program of China (973 Program)” (Grant No.2010CB951402)
In this paper, an updated vegetation map of the permafrost zone in the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau (QTP) was delineated. The vegetation map model was extracted from vegetation sampling with remote sensing (RS) datasets ...
supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 41371009);the Fundamental Research Fund for the Central Universities of China (Grant No. lzujbky2013-127)
Ecosystem response to climate change in high-altitude regions is a focus on global change research. Picea/Abies forests are widely distributed at high altitudes of East and Central Asia, and their distribution changes...
funded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 40825017);the Chinese Academy of Sciences(Grant No. KZCX3-SW-344 and 100 Talents Project)
The distribution of borehole temperature at four high-altitude alpine glaciers was investigated. The result shows that the temperature ranges from -13.4℃ to -1.84℃, indicating the glaciers are cold throughout the bo...