financially supported by the Second Tibetan Plateau Scientific Expedition and Research Program(2019QZKK0606 and 2019QZKK0906);the National Key Research&Development Program of China(2016YFA0602400)。
Every year,millions of people travel to high-elevation regions(≥2500 m above sea level)for sightseeing,mountaineering,trekking,skiing or commercial and scientific research activities.As the largest and highest platea...
supported by the National Basic Research Program of China (2012CB026101);the Western Project Program of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (KZCX2-XB3-19);the National Sci-Tech Support Plan (2014BAG05B01)
This work presents changes of thermokarst lakes from Beilu River Basin on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau over the past four decades (1969-2010) using aerial and satellite image interpretation. The results indicated that ...
supported by the Special Foundation for the National Science and Technology Major Project of China(2011FY120300);the National Natural Science Foundation of China(41001058)
This study employed proxy data to investigate the phase relationship between the North Atlantic deep-level temperature and the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau(TP)surface air temperature(TP temperature)and its evolution at the m...
supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (41171039 and 40890051);the Chinese NSFC Innovation Team Project (41021091);the One Hundred Talents Program of Chinese Academy of Sciences (29O827B11);the Program of Introducing Talents of Discipline to Universities from China’s Ministry of Education (B06026)
This paper presents a 457-year reconstruction of precipitation in the southeastern Qinghai-Tibet Plateau using tree-ring records.Tree-ring samples were collected from the Hengduan Mountains in the southeastern part of...
supported by Key Innovation Research Program,Chinese Academy of Sciences (KSCX2-EW-N-05);the National Basic Research Program of China (2012CB722506);the Key Projects in the Nationa Science & Technology Pillar Program (2009BAI83B01)
All organisms respond to variation in their environments and manage environmental stress through metabolic adjustments.The plateau zokor(Myospalax baileyi) is an endemic and keystone subterranean rodent species that i...
supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (40930741 and 41071009);the Knowledge Innovation Program of Chinese Academy of Sciences (KZCX2-YW-329)
The desert and permafrost conditions of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau are unique.However,the effects of desertification on the ground temperature of permafrost are currently unclear.Recently,understanding this problem has...
supported by the National Basic Research Program of China (2009CB421105);Western Act Plan of the Chinese Academy of Sciences;the National Technology Support Project (2006BAC08B00)
Alpine meadow is the predominant ecosystem in Qinghai-Tibet Plateau.The firm turf of alpine meadow formed by sub-surface anfractuous roots can be effective in conserving water and soil.Alpine meadow is a primary contr...
the National Basic Research Program of China (Grant No. 2006CB403607);the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 40675047 and 40605023);the Key Project of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (Grant No. KZCX2-YW-219);a Western Washington University summer research grant
Empirical Orthogonal Function (EOF) analysis and the related Principal Components (PC) analysis are used to extract valuable vegetation cover derived information from the National Oceanic and Atmos- pheric Administrat...
Supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 90511003);the Hundred Talent Scholar Foundation, Chinese Academy of Sci-ences (2004)
CO2 emission fluxes of two types of ecosystem, swamp meadow and alpine meadow, in the Fenghuo- shan region of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau were studied by the static chamber-portable infrared chro- matographic method. Th...
Supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 40471137);the Innovation Team Project of the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 40421101);Doctor Station Foundation, Ministry of Education of China
An oxygen isotope record of a stalagmite from Huanglong Cave in the eastern Qinghai-Tibet Plateau dated with 230Th and 210Pb methods provides variations of the Asian monsoon with an average resolu-tion of 1 year over ...