Watershed management requires reliable information about hydrologic ecosystem services (HESs) to support decision-making. In cold alpine regions, the hydrology regime is largely affected by frozen ground and snow cover. However, existing special mode...
Insect pests pose a significant threat to alpine ecosystems, especially under rapid environmental change conditions. Therefore, it is necessary to explore the effects of environmental factors on insect pest risks and provide methods for pest manageme...
Revegetation has been proposed as an effective approach to restoring the extremely degraded grassland in the Qinghai–Tibetan Plateau (QTP). However, little is known about the effect of revegetation on ecosystem carbon density (ECD), especially...
Adaptation to climate change raises important governance issues in terms of governance structures and mechanisms, stakeholders’ involvement, and links with the existing and wider-scale strategies. Notwithstanding the increasing attention at the globa...
Glaciers, known as solid reservoirs, are important water supply sources in northwest China. In this paper, mineral dust collected from a Chinese alpine mining area (Beizhan iron mine) and an ice cube (with a 225 cm2 section and a volume of 1000 mL) w...
23 June 2022
Open-pit mining is an important form of coal mining in China, and its damage to the ecological environment is particularly obvious in alpine regions. The ecological restoration of alpine open-pit coal mines faces severe challenges, and its restoratio...
In alpine regions, the durability of asphalt pavement is worse due to the harsh climate. However, crumb rubber modified asphalt has the potential to improve the durability of pavement. Based on matrix asphalt, crumb rubber, Trans-Polyoctenamer Rubber...
Increasing flood damage has led to a rising importance of land use in flood risk management policies, commonly referred to as the spatial turn in flood risk management. This includes policies aiming at making space for rivers, which, in practice, lea...
This study discusses the impact of two different ecological restoration approaches on the distribution of soil particle size and organic carbon, expecting to provide references for research on the effects of ecological restoration on the soil carbon...
Climate change and intensified human activities have led to plant degradation and land desertification in desert areas, which seriously threaten ecological security. The establishment of the Caragana korshinskii plantation is considered to be one of...
Climate change and human activities were identified as the primary drivers of streamflow in arid alpine regions. However, limitations in observational data have resulted in a limited understanding of streamflow changes in these water sources, which h...
Climate change and human interventions have exerted a long-term influence on variations in continental streamflow. Despite this, the precise mechanisms by which these factors regulate the change in streamflow remain inadequately understood, especiall...
Employing a small baseline subset Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar (SBAS-InSAR) and hotspot analysis, this study identified 81 potential landslides in a 768.7 km2 area of Xiaojin county, eastern Tibetan Plateau. Subsequent time-series deforma...
28 February 2023
For mountainous areas in different regions, the study of the spatial coupling relationship between rural settlements and arable land resources is a key aspect of coordinated rural development. In this study, a spatial coupling relationship model and...
Hydropower activities must increasingly be evaluated from a sustainable development perspective. Corporate social responsibility (CSR) is the principle frequently applied to evaluate corporate contributions in this regard, though there exists no conc...
The Three Rivers Source Region (TRSR) is a natural habitat for rare animals and a genetic treasure trove of plateau organisms. It is an important eco-safety barrier in China and even Asia, and a priority of China’s to promote ecological advance...
The widely spread alpine grassland ecosystem in the Three River Headwaters Region (TRHR) plays an essential ecological role in carbon sequestration and soil and water conservation. In this study, we test the latest high spatial resolution hyperspectr...
The mountainous areas in the western part of Sichuan Province are mostly Alpine Gorge regions with high mountains, steep slopes, complex topography and geomorphology, special climatic conditions, infertile soils, and fragile ecological environments....
Investigating elevational gradient of climate driving effects on cropland ecosystem net primary productivity (NPP) plays an important role in food security in alpine region. We simulated cropland NPP by coupling a remote sensing model with an ecosyst...
Surface air temperature is a critical element in the surface–atmosphere interaction, energy exchange, and water cycle. Multi-source fusion reanalysis products (hereafter referred to as reanalysis) have spatiotemporal continuity and broad applic...
Zhouqu County is located at the intersection of two active structural belts in the east of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, which is a rare, high-incidence area of landslides, debris flow, and earthquakes on a global scale. The complex regional geological...
In this study, virological surveillance focused on coronaviruses in marmots in the Alpine region in 2022, captured as part of a population control reduction program in the Livigno area. Seventy-six faecal samples were randomly collected from marmots...
10 January 2023
Absolute poverty has historically been solved in China, and the focus on poor areas has shifted to addressing relative poverty. To realize the organic combination of the rural revitalization strategy and relative poverty governance, multi-dimensional...
Snow cover is particularly important in the Alps for tourism and the production of hydroelectric energy. In this study, we investigate the spatiotemporal variability in three snow cover metrics, i.e., the length of season (LOS), start of season (SOS)...
Alpine grassland degradation in permafrost regions seriously affects the provision of ecosystem services, posing a threat to ecological security. Revegetation is a key strategy for the restoration of alpine grassland ecosystems on the Qinghai–T...
In the Alpine region of Austria, Italy, and Switzerland, transhumance is widespread and the production of local traditional dairy products during summer is important. Raw milk cheeses are produced according to traditional recipes, using hurdles as a...
Detecting the variations in snow cover aging over undulating alpine regions is challenging owing to the complex snow-aging process and shadow effect from steep slopes. This study proposes a novel snow-cover status index, namely shadow-adjusted snow-a...
Like other regions located in tectonically active areas, the Adriatic, Alpine, Dinaric, and Pannonian regions have undergone numerous changes during the Quaternary [...]
How climate change and human activities drive the evolution of the regional environment and where the quality of ecosystems improve or decline over time have become widespread concerns. In this study, we took the Three-River-Source (TRS) region of th...
Understanding vegetation changes and their driving forces in global alpine areas is critical in the context of climate change. We aimed to reveal the changing trend in global alpine vegetation from 1981 to 2015 using the least squares regression meth...
Electric vehicles (EVs) are low-carbon innovations that decrease emissions in transportation. Understanding what drives individual propensity to choose EVs supports policymakers in shaping effective low-carbon mobility policies. Within the MOBSTER In...
Snowmelt is the main source of runoff in the alpine regions of northern China. When using the soil and water assessment tool (SWAT) to simulate snowmelt runoff, the snowmelt date and snowmelt factor parameters are set according to the North American...
Runoff simulation is essential for effective water resource management and plays a pivotal role in hydrological forecasting. Improving the quality of runoff simulation and forecasting continues to be a highly relevant research area. The complexity of...
During the operational period, unexpected upstream deformation has been observed in several super-high arch dams located in the alpine and gorge regions. In addition, the phenomenon of the downstream dam deformation monitoring values being apparently...
26 February 2021
The present study examines motives for cycling in the alpine region and focuses on the relative importance of health promotion with respect to other motives. Furthermore, the influences of person-specific characteristics on the rank of the motives ar...
Precipitation and growing season length (GSL) are vital abiotic and biotic variables in controlling vegetation productivity in alpine regions. However, their relative effects on vegetation productivity have not been fully understood. In this study, w...
Grazing exclusion has been widely used to restore the degraded alpine grasslands on the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau (QTP). However, the dynamics of soil organic carbon (SOC) and soil total nitrogen (STN) pools after grazing exclusion and their controllin...
Alpine grasslands on the Tibetan Plateau are claimed to be sensitive and vulnerable to climate change and human disturbance. The mechanism, direction and magnitude of climatic and anthropogenic influences on net primary productivity (NPP) of various...
27 February 2023
The Three-River Headwaters Region (TRHR) is crucial to the sustainable development of China and Southeast Asia. The sustainability of grassland ecosystems in the region has been seriously challenged in recent years. This paper reviewed the changes in...
In order to solve the problem of ineffective pre-splitting blasting and reduce the damage caused to preserved rock bodies in the Niukutou open-pit quarry in the alpine region of Qinghai Province, China, this study investigated the influence of differ...
This paper questions the evaluation of innovation systems and innovation measurements and the effectiveness of innovation policies applied at the territorial level by assessing whether the existing European regional scoreboard is effective in providi...
Visible and near-infrared spectroscopy (Vis–NIR, 350–1100 nm) has great potential for predicting soil properties. However, current research on the hyperspectral prediction of soil parameters in agricultural areas of alpine regions and the...
The Varnous Mt. area in the northern Pelagonian Nappe is characterized by the intrusion of an Early Permian pluton, with its tectonic setting and igneous petrology well constrained in earlier studies. The metamorphic basement rocks warrant further de...
Plastic film mulching is widely used in water and temperature-limited regions to enhance crop yields. Phosphorus (P) fertilization can address deficiencies in soil P availability. In this four-year field experiment conducted in an alpine agricultural...
Known as the “roof of the world”, the Tibetan Plateau hosts the largest pastoral alpine ecosystem in the world. Nevertheless, there is currently no consensus on how soil organic carbon (SOC) stock changes after livestock grazing on the gr...
The calculation of theoretical carrying capacity (TCC) is one of the most fundamental tasks for the evaluation of the forage–livestock balance on grassland pastures. At present, the main methods for calculating TCC are the traditional theory (T...
The Tibetan Plateau is the “Asia Water Tower” and is pivotal for Asia and the whole world. Groundwater is essential for sustainable development in its alpine regions, yet its chemical quality increasingly limits its usability. The present...
There is still a lack of high-precision and large-scale soil ammonium nitrogen (NH4+-N), nitrate nitrogen (NO3−-N) and available phosphorus (AP) in alpine grasslands at least on the Qinghai–Xizang Plateau, which may limit our understandin...
Soil microbial communities are pivotal in maintaining ecosystem functions, particularly in alpine regions with highly heterogeneous environmental conditions. However, the influence of vegetation type on soil microbial communities in high-elevation ar...
Understanding rainfall partitioning by shrub canopies is essential for assessing water balance and improving hydrological models in cold regions. From 2010 to 2012, field experiments were conducted in the Hulu catchment of the Qilian Mountains, focus...
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