In recent decades, the vegetation of the Sanjiangyuan region has undergone a series of changes under the influence of climate change, and ecological restoration projects have been implemented. In this paper, we analyze the spatiotemporal dynamics of...
With further urbanization, household consumption firmly plays a key role in China’s national carbon emissions. However, current research concerning carbon issues has mainly focused on urban household consumption, and few studies have paid atten...
Research on the supply–demand relationships of ecosystem services (ESs) in alpine pastoral regions remains relatively scarce, yet it is crucial for regional ecological management and sustainable development. This study focuses on the Sanjiangyu...
This study aims to reveal the impact mechanisms of five typical topographic habitats in the Sanjiangyuan region (sunny slope, depression, shady slope, mountain pass, and transitional zone) on the characteristics and functions of rhizosphere soil fung...
The Sanjiangyuan region, known as the “Chinese Water Tower”, serves as a crucial ecological zone that is highly sensitive to climate change. In recent years, rising temperatures and increased precipitation have led to permafrost melt and...
Vegetation water consumption in the Sanjiangyuan Region is of direct significance to the utilization of local water resources. To measure the actual evapotranspiration of various typical vegetation with different vegetation types in the Sanjiangyuan...
Low-carbon energy technology is the most fundamental way to control carbon emissions. The Sanjiangyuan region in Qinghai Province must put environmental conservation in first place during development, because of its important function of national eco...
Protected areas play significant roles in protecting biodiversity by mitigating human activities. As an indicator for human activities, the human footprint (HF) can be used to assess the effectiveness of protected areas. We developed a HF dataset for...
Climate change alters plant biomass allocation and aboveground–belowground trade-offs in grassland ecosystems, potentially affecting critical functions such as carbon sequestration. However, uncertainties persist regarding how precipitation gra...
Global warming and rapid urban industrialization are profoundly transforming land-use patterns and carbon storage capacity in terrestrial ecosystems. A rigorous analysis of spatiotemporal variations in regional land-use changes and carbon storage dyn...
Between 2020 and 2023, rust fungus specimens were collected from the primary forested regions of the Sanjiangyuan area in Qinghai Province, resulting in over 300 samples. A taxonomic and phylogenetic study of the rust fungi from these forests was con...
Wetlands and meadows are two terrestrial ecosystems that are strikingly distinct in terms of hydrological conditions and biogeochemical characteristics. Wetlands generally feature saturated soils, high accumulation of organic matter, and hypoxic envi...
Identifying suitable areas for ecosystem services (ES) development is essential for balancing economic growth with environmental sustainability in ecologically fragile regions. However, existing studies often neglect integrating future climate and so...
National parks play a crucial role in protecting ecosystems and biodiversity while facing challenges in balancing nature conservation and economic development. However, because of the difficulty in the unified simulation of natural protection functio...
Activity patterns constitute a critical adaptive trait in large carnivores, enabling them to manage interspecific competition, enhance their foraging efficiency, and adapt to fluctuating environmental conditions. At the community level, elucidating t...
Understanding the mechanisms of diversity–productivity relationships is a central question in community ecology. Grazing is the main driving force affecting biodiversity, function, and stability of grassland ecosystems, and thus should play an...
The effectiveness of snow data assimilation is closely related to the satellite data quality control that affects snow cover data used for assimilation and meteorological forcings that drive land surface model to estimate snow depth, especially over...
Environmental conservation has developed significantly in China over the past 20 years, including more collaborative approaches and recent advances in establishing a national parks system. This study reviews the development of protected areas in the...
Personal injury and property damage caused by wildlife can worsen the relationship between humans and wildlife. In recent years, conflicts between herders and Tibetan brown bears (Ursus arctos pruinosus) (human–bear conflicts; HBCs) on the Qing...
This study aims to evaluate the restoration effect of artificially mixed-sown grasslands by investigating the characteristics of plant communities and soil fungal communities in long-term (22-year-established) artificial grasslands under six Poaceae...
Over the past two decades, the demands of nature-based tourism have been rapidly growing worldwide, yet it is not clear how tourist demands for water, food, and infrastructure influence the ecosystem services (ES), which are often the bedrock of an a...
The rapid pace of development in western China has brought about inevitable concerns for environmental conditions and their management. The Sanjiangyuan National Park strives to address concerns for sustainable water resources management and biodiver...
The Sanjiangyuan region, situated on the Qinghai–Tibetan Plateau, constitutes an exceptionally delicate ecological environment. Alterations in the region’s ecological landscape stem not only from natural factors but also from significant...
The Sanjiangyuan National Park is the first Chinese national park system, and the ecological environment is inherently fragile and sensitive. Therefore, for environmental protection, it is imperative to understand the spatiotemporal variation charact...
The wild large herbivores inhabiting the Yellow-River-Source National Park (YRSNP) are confronted with a significant threat from climate change and human activities. In response to these detrimental influences, measures have been proposed by the gove...
This paper uses remote sensing data from the Sanjiangyuan National Park (SNP) to explore the divergence between the boundaries of national parks and the distribution of natural habitats. Results are used to argue that these discrepancies evolve along...
National parks face ecological threats from climate change and human activities. Sanjiangyuan National Park (SNP), a major ecological area in China, lacks a systematic evaluation of its ecological environmental quality changes and their driving facto...
The rising popularity of ecotourism on the Tibetan Plateau has intensified the tension between wildlife conservation and economic development. Conventional wildlife displays often fail to achieve high-fidelity, non-invasive representations of animal...
Rodent infestation has become one of the important factors in grassland degradation on the Qinghai–Tibet Plateau, one of the hindrances to ecological and environmental protection, and a threat to the balance and development of the ecosystem in...
Highland running-water biodiversity has gained growing interest around the world, because of the more pristine conditions and higher sensitivity to environmental changes of highland rivers compared to the lowland rivers. This study presents the findi...
Analyzing multi-scale changes in landscape connectivity is an important way to study landscape ecological processes and also an important method to maintain regional biodiversity. In this study, graph-based connectivity was used to analyze the dynami...
Monitoring the extent of plateau forests has drawn much attention from governments given the fact that the plateau forests play a key role in global carbon circulation. Despite the recent advances in the remote-sensing applications of satellite image...
Deep learning for precipitation forecasting remains constrained by complex meteorological factors affecting accuracy. To address this issue, this paper proposes TransMambaCNN, which is a spatiotemporal transformer network fusing state-space models an...
High temporal resolution remote sensing satellite data can be used to collect vegetation phenology observations over regional and global scales. Logistic and polynomial functions are the most widely used methods for fitting time series normalized dif...
Revealing the response of vegetation on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau (QTP) to climate change and human activities is crucial for ensuring East Asian ecological security and regulating the global climate. However, the current research rarely explores the...
As one of China’s largest national parks, Sanjiangyuan National Park (SNP) plays a crucial role in preserving ecological security and biodiversity. Conducting a scientific evaluation of dynamic changes in vegetation ecological quality and lands...
The official establishment of China’s national parks marks a new stage in the construction of China’s ecological civilization system. National parks systematically protect the areas with the richest biodiversity and the most complete ecos...
The Yellow River Source Area is located in the ecological protection and restoration area of the Sanjiangyuan in China, which has been deteriorating as a result of human-caused overgrazing and the grassland destruction caused by plateau rats and rabb...