supported by the Strategic Priority Research Program,CAS (XDB31040202,XDA19050303);China’s Biodiversity Observation Network (Sino-BON),Digitalization,Development and Application of Biotic Resource (202002AA100007);Animal Branch of the Germplasm Bank of Wild Species,Chinese Academy of Sciences (Large Research Infrastructure Funding);National Natural Science Foundation of China (32170478);Yunnan FundamentalResearchProject(202001AW070016,202005AC160046);Young Talent Project of China Association for Science and Technology (2019-2021QNRC001);Second Tibetan Plateau Scientific Expedition and Research Program(2019QZKK0501);supported by the CAS President’s International Fellowship Initiative (PIFI) to R.W.M.
Evolutionary biologists are always interested in deciphering the geographic context of diversification,therefore they introduced the concept of comparative phylogeography, which helps to identify common mechanisms tha...
The Gonghe Basin,a Cenozoic down-warped basin,is located in the northeastern part of the Qinghai-Xizang (Tibetan) Plateau,and spread over important nodes of the transfer of multiple blocks in the central orogenic belt...
financially supported by the National Major Scientific Project of China(Grant No.2013CBA01803);the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant Nos.41271081;41271086);the Foundation of One Hundred Person Project of the Chinese Academy of Sciences(Grant No.51Y551831)
Water and heat dynamics in the active layer at a monitoring site in the Tanggula Mountains, located in the permafrost region of the Qinghai-Xizang (Tibet) Plateau (QXP), were studied using the physical-process-bas...
sponsored by Earthquake Scientific Research Program of China (200708038);the National Science and Technological Support Program of the 11th"Five-year Plan"(2006BAC01B03-04-02)
26 earthquakes with MS ≥5. 0 have been recorded in the northeast margin of the Qinghai- Xizang (Tibet) block since 1980,22 of which were relatively independent of other moderate- strong earthquakes. Research on the i...
Supported by the Chinese Academy of Sciences (KSCX2-YW-2-069);National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC 30500035);Xinjiang Institute of Ecology and Geography, CAS, and China Scholarship Council (CSC) for supporting M.L. Zhang’s visit to the California Academy of Sciences
Astragalus is a species-rich genus occurring in the western arid habitats in China and its diversification and infrageneric relationships in this region remain unclear. In the present study, based on molecular data, w...
the National Natural Science Foundation of China(40472109);"973"State Key Basic Research Project of China(2004CB418410);Joint Eanthquake Science Foundation of China(105066)
The Daliangshan tectonic zone is a rhombic area to the east of the Anninghe and Zemuhe fault zones in the middle segment of the Xianshuihe-Xiaojiang fault system along the southeast margin of the Qinghai-Xizang (Tibe...
the Programof "City Active Fault Experimental Detection"(20042238);National Development and Reform Commission of People's Republic of China and the Earthquake Science Foundation of Qinghai Province (2006A03),China
The Datong fault belt is a NE trending fault in the northern Qinghai-Xizang (Tibet) Plateau and controls the boundary of the Xining Basin and Datong Basin. It consists of the Maziying- Miaogou (F1) fault and the L...
Knowledge Innovation Program of Xinjiang Institute of Ecology and Geography, CAS, No.0571041
Annual freezing and thawing index of 7 meteorological stations along the Qing- hai-Xizang Railway were calculated based on daily maximum and minimum temperature records for 1966-2004. Trends of annual freezing and tha...
National Natural Science Foundation of China(40374012 and 40334042);State Key Fundamental Research De-velopment Plan Project(2001CB711005)
We simulate accumulative Coulomb failure stress change in a layered Maxwell viscoelastic media in the northeastern Qinghai-Xizang (Tibetan) Plateau since 1920. Lithospheric stress/strain evolution is assumed to be d...
This overview discusses old and new results as to the controversy on the past glacier extension in High Asia, which has been debated for 35 years now. This paper makes an attempt to come closer to a solution. H.v. Wis...