Understanding the spatial morphology and geographic adaptability of traditional settlements is crucial for their preservation and management. Accordingly, this study employs Hehuang region, China, as a case study, adopting an integrated approach that...
Religious buildings are important spatial nodes for ritual practice, collective memory, and everyday public life in multiethnic traditional villages. However, quantitative evidence on how their intra-village spatial configurations vary across ethnic...
Clarifying the spatiotemporal distribution and influencing factors of mosque architecture in China’s Hehuang region has significant positive implications for the overall protection and development of the region’s architectural cultural he...
Investigating the evolution and drivers of multifunctional land use is essential for sustainable land management and regional biological conservation. This research focuses on the Hehuang Valley, where we developed an “ecological-social-product...
Anthropogenic land use constitutes a key driver of land cover change, exerting profound impacts on terrestrial carbon/water cycles and ecosystems across global to regional scales. Consequently, long-term land cover datasets serve as fundamental data...
Accurate cropland distribution data are essential for efficiently planning production layouts, optimizing farmland use, and improving crop planting efficiency and yield. Although reliable cropland data are crucial for supporting modern regional agric...
In this paper, we strive to showthat the protection of the ecological environment of the Yellow River can impact regional sustainable development and human society. Based on GIS and historical documents, we selected 1640AD in the late Ming Dynasty an...
Under a warming–humidifying climate, precipitation patterns on the Qinghai–Tibet Plateau have significantly shifted due to a water imbalance in its solid–liquid structure. Using monthly precipitation data (1961–2023), we analy...
As the “Asian Water Tower”, understanding the hydrological cycles in Qinghai Province and its interior is critical to the security of terrestrial ecosystems. Based on Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS)16 evapotranspirat...
During the Late Neolithic and Bronze Age, the spread of Triticeae crops gradually transformed local millet agriculture in the Gansu–Qinghai region. However, few studies focused on the distribution characteristics and geographical factors influe...
Understanding how the internal structure of precipitation events evolves and responds to antecedent thermal conditions is essential for revealing the mechanisms of extreme precipitation in plateau-margin mountainous regions. Using hourly precipitatio...
Global warming has intensified freeze–thaw activity in high-latitude and high-altitude regions; along the western sector of the farming–pastoral ecotone in northern China, pronounced seasonal freeze–thaw cycles now pose a severe thr...
Understanding the spatial patterns of ethnic inter-embeddedness is essential for promoting sustainable development in multi-ethnic regions. This study develops a novel “Clustered-Boundary-Cellular” typological model to interpret the spati...
The increasing frequency and severity of natural disasters attributable to climate change have placed growing pressure on farmers’ livelihoods in ecologically fragile areas. Reducing livelihood vulnerability and strengthening resilience are the...
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The Tibetan Plateau is one of the world’s most extreme habitats and one of the most challenging ecosystems on the planet. Many multi-ethnic traditional villages have developed on the plateau over its long history, and are an essential component...