The Qinghai–Tibet Plateau is one of the regions most strongly affected by climate change. The climate feedback of the distribution of plateau pika, a key species, is closely related to the trophic structure of the plateau ecosystem and the deve...
This study focuses on the quantitative simulation of the spatiotemporal distribution characteristics of permafrost area, providing scientific value for Mongolian Plateau permafrost dynamics. Understanding the permafrost area of the Mongolian Plateau...
Located on the east side of China’s Qinghai–Tibet Plateau is the Western Sichuan Plateau, the courtyard adopts a passive design to withstand the harsh climate in cold areas, and its internal thermal environment has a direct impact on the...
The Qinghai–Tibet plateau, with an average altitude of over 4000 m, has low annual average temperatures and a high demand for building heating. This region’s abundant solar energy resources hold substantial practical significance for impr...
Daily snow-covered area retrieval using the imagery in solar reflective bands often encounters extensive data gaps caused by cloud obscuration. With the inception of geostationary satellites carrying advanced multispectral imagers of high temporal re...
The Qinghai–Tibetan Plateau area (QTPA) features a unique environment that has witnessed the selective breeding of diverse breeds of domestic livestock exhibiting remarkable adaptability. Nevertheless, Anaplasma spp., Rickettsia spp., Coxiella...
The Loess Plateau area, with complex geomorphological features and geological structure, is highly prone to geologic disasters such as landslides and debris flow, which cause great losses. To investigate the initiation mechanism of landslide and debr...
The Qinghai–Tibet Plateau has given birth to many indigenous highland plants due to its special geographical location and sensitivity to climate change. Relevantly, the impact of climate change on species distribution has been a hot issue for r...
An interprovincial boundary region is a new subject of economic disparity study in China. This study explored the multi-scale spatio-temporal dynamics of economic development from 1995 to 2010 in the interprovincial boundary region of Sichuan-Yunnan-...
The remarkable expansion of lake areas across the Changtang Plateau (CTP, located in the central Tibetan Plateau) since the late 1990s has drawn considerable scientific interest, presenting a striking contrast to the global decline in natural lake wa...
The northwestern region of China, known as the Qinghai–Tibet Plateau Area (QTPA), is characterized by unique climate conditions that support the breeding of various highly-adapted livestock species. Tick vectors play a significant role in trans...
Monitoring lake area changes with a higher spatial and temporal resolution can facilitate a more detailed analysis of climate-related changes in the Tibetan Plateau. In the Landsat era, optical remote sensing observation with water body index-based m...
Toxoplasma gondii belongs to the Apicomplexan protozoa—an obligate intracellular parasite—causing toxoplasmosis that has a worldwide distribution and is very harmful to both human health and the livestock industry. However, the information on toxopla...
The objective of this investigation was to understand the epidemiology of fascioliasis in yaks in the alpine pastoral areas of the Qinghai–Tibet Plateau, China. The prevalence of Fasciola hepatica infection was estimated by examining eggs in th...
The Qinghai-Tibet Plateau area (QTP) is the most unique environmental-population region and an important natural laboratory for the study of human-land relations. The poor transportation conditions have long restricted socio-economic development. The...
Toxoplasma gondii and Neospora caninum belong to the Apicomplexan protozoa which is an obligate intracellular parasite, causing toxoplasmosis and neosporosis throughout the world. Cats and dogs are the definitive hosts of these two parasites. However...
The latest gravity survey of the gravity base network in Qinghai Province, China, was conducted with six Scintrex CG gravimeters and this gravity survey was tied to existed gravity reference stations. In this gravity network with long segments and ve...
The Nagqu area is in the northern part of the Qinghai–Tibet Plateau, and its average altitude is above 4000 m. Due to the area’s high altitude, there is relatively little information about its lakes. Therefore, to supplement the basic inf...
Vegetation restoration is critical for improving soil quality and microbial community dynamics in degraded mining areas. This study explored the effects of different vegetation types (grassland, shrubland, and mixed grass–shrub areas) on soil p...
Terracing and vegetation are an effective practice for soil and water conservation on sloped terrain. They can significantly reduce the sediment yield from the surface area, as well as intercept the sediment yield from upstream. However, most hydrolo...
This study focuses on the Kunming municipal area, located in the low-latitude plateau of southwestern China, utilizing remote sensing image data from four distinct periods between 2005 and 2020 to analyze changes in its green landscape patterns. Net...
The Qinghai–Tibet Plateau is characterized by highly complex terrain, and civil aviation serves as a primary mode of transportation for regional mobility. A comprehensive understanding of wind field characteristics within the terminal areas of...
Global climate change, mainly characterized by warming, has resulted in significant migration of temperature-sensitive crops from traditional planting areas, making crops more vulnerable to climate change and natural disasters, increasing yield losse...
31 January 2023
Evaluating the protection effectiveness of natural protected areas is an important step in successful management. Adopting 330 natural protected areas on the Qinghai–Tibet Plateau as research subjects, the regional dominant ecosystem service fu...
Ecosystem services play a crucial role in maintaining ecological balance and supporting socio-economic development. However, long-term human activities and climate change have led to severe ecosystem degradation and exacerbated soil erosion on the Lo...
Micropile groups have been progressively more frequently adopted in the construction of transmission tower bases due to their compact size and flexible construction advantages. However, the load-bearing characteristics and deformation mechanisms of m...
9 January 2022
Soil construction and revegetation are essential for ecological restoration in mining areas. The influence of vegetation on the horizontal and vertical distribution patterns of soil properties should be fully understood. However, most studies on reco...
Drought and water shortage are the key factors that restrict the sustainable development of the apple industry in the Chinese Loess Plateau. The accurate prediction of ET can provide a scientific basis for water management of apple orchards. A study...
Low atmospheric pressure (LAP) can enormously affect properties of cement concrete in plateau areas. There are fewer studies and attendances on this issue than those of cement concrete in normal atmospheric pressure (AP), because of the limitations o...
In the context of intensifying global climate change, high-altitude mountain ecosystems play a critical role in climate regulation, biodiversity conservation, and the advancement of sustainable human development. Plateau regions, such as the Qinghai&...
It is important to develop or validate remote sensing methods to explore agricultural management and food self-sufficiency in the agricultural areas of the Qinghai–Tibet Plateau under the influence of global change, ecological protection, and s...
Lake inundation is one of the most important hydrological factors affecting lake ecosystems. In order to accurately and timely grasp the spatio-temporal pattern of the lake inundation area, and reveal the ecological evolution of the lake landscape, t...
The spatial pattern of rural poverty and its influencing factors are unique in regions located in the “double zone”, overlaying the Loess Plateau landform and interprovincial border socioeconomic zone. Using Huining County, located in the...
The Chinese Loess Plateau suffers from serious gully erosion induced by natural and human causes. Gully-affected areas detection is the basic work in this region for gully erosion assessment and monitoring. For the first time, an unmanned aerial vehi...
Aiming at the problem that asphalt pavement materials in plateau areas are vulnerable to freeze-thaw damage, research was carried out on asphalt pavements of representative road sections, and the temperature within the pavement structure was monitore...
Evaluating the conservation effectiveness of multiple types of protected areas (PAs) on carbon sequestration services can enhance the role of PAs in mitigating global warming. Here, we evaluated the conservation status and effectiveness of national p...
Double-cropping systems in which two kinds of crops are harvested per year can elevate forage yields significantly. This is the first report on a double-cropping system in the northeastern margin of alpine pastoral areas on the Qinghai–Tibetan...
The resettlement of residents within the construction area of large projects is an important task related to people’s welfare. Livability is often used as an evaluation indicator when selecting resettlement areas. According to the results of th...
The Qinghai–Tibet Plateau is a crucial ecological security barrier in China and Asia. Its grassland ecosystem has high ecological service value. Scientific assessments and classifications of grasslands are crucial for determining the value of g...
In this article, we employed a satellite-enabled Internet of Remote Things (IoRT) network as a promising solution to retrieve data in the most remote areas of interest, where public networks are absent. This article presents a system network based on...
Lake areas across the Tibet Plateau have been taken as the major indicator of water resources changes. However, drivers behind spatiotemporal variations of lake areas over the Tibet Plateau have remained obscure. Selin Co Lake is the largest lake in...
Forest stand volume is one of the key forest structural attributes in estimating and forecasting ecosystem productivity and carbon stock. However, studies on growth modeling and environmental influences on stand volume are still rare to date, especia...
Due to the influence of altitude change on a driver’s heart rate, it is difficult to estimate driving fatigue using heart rate variability (HRV) at a road segment with frequent and rapid altitude change. Accordingly, a novel method of driving f...
Ecological restoration is crucial for maintaining national ecological security. Scientific and reasonable identification of key ecological restoration areas is a difficult problem facing the current national spatial planning. This study evaluated eco...
This study provides experimental evidence regarding the mechanism of gallium nitride (GaN) selective-area growth (SAG) on a polished plateau-patterned sapphire substrate (PP-PSS), on which aluminum nitride (AlN) buffer layers are deposited under the...
Lakes are sensitive indicators of climate change in the Tibetan Plateau (TP), which have shown high temporal and spatial variability in recent decades. The driving forces for the change are still not entirely clear. This study examined the area chang...
In order to solve the safety ambiguity problems in the construction and use of rural roads in the gully area of the Loess Plateau, this paper proposes a safety assessment method based on the normal cloud model (NCM). First, a safety assessment index...
Salmonella is an important foodborne pathogen that can cause a range of illnesses in humans; it has also been a key focus for monitoring in the field of public health, including gastroenteritis, sepsis, and arthritis, and can also cause a decline in...
The Qinghai–Tibetan plateau is undergoing severe grassland degradation, commonly known as black-soil areas, caused by overgrazing, climate change, and rodent activity. Accurate black-soil area detection is critical for guiding ecological restor...
Topography is one of the important factors influencing the distribution of rural settlements, as the natural environment in plateau-mountain areas is more complicated and harsher and the forces of various natural influences are more obvious. Analyzin...
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