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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...

The Qinghai–Tibet Plateau is a proven essential water conservation region in Asia. However, various factors, such as anthropogenic activities, climate, and vegetation significantly affect its water conservation. Along these lines, a deep unders...

The Qinghai–Tibet Plateau is a unique global natural geographical unit with a high altitude and fragile ecology, where land cover change has been affecting its regional ecological security and sustainable development. The plateau covers nine co...

The Qinghai-Tibet Plateau serves as an important ecological security shelter in China and across Asia. During the past two decades, the patterns of land development and conservation on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau have undergone significant changes unde...

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...

Forests are critical ecosystems for environmental regulation and ecological security maintenance, especially at high altitudes that exhibit sensitivity to climate change and human activities. The Qinghai-Tibet Plateau—the world’s largest water tower...

The Liupan Mountain (LPM) area is located on the northeast margin of the Qinghai–Tibet Plateau, which is the western part of the second ladder of China’s terrain. It is also an intersection area of two air currents, which are caused by th...

The Tibetan Plateau has important functions, such as water and soil conservation, wind and sand control, carbon fixation, and biodiversity protection. Agricultural development on the Tibetan Plateau not only maintains local food security but is also...

Lake Qinghai, the largest closed-basin lake on the Qinghai–Tibet Plateau, plays a crucial role in maintaining regional ecological stability through its hydrological functions. In recent decades, the lake has exhibited a continuous rise in water...

Zoning is vital for balancing biodiversity conservation and sustainable development in protected areas, yet traditional approaches often lead to ecological overprotection and social conflict. This study introduces an integrative modeling framework to...

The Qinghai–Tibet Plateau (QTP) is a unique ecological area that has faced issues like diminishing ecosystem stability and increasing pressures on resources and the environment. These issues have arisen as a result of the combined impact of glo...

Balancing human needs with nature’s contributions is essential for sustainable development. The nature’s contribution to people (NCPs) framework helps identify ecosystem benefits; however, few studies have applied it to conservation prior...

The Qinghai-Tibet Plateau (QTP) is among the most sensitive ecosystems to changes in global climate and human activities, and quantifying its consequent change in land-cover land-use (LCLU) is vital for assessing the responses and feedbacks of alpine...

Icing/Aufeis processes are a typical feature of permafrost hydrology in mountainous regions. Regional databases of Aufeis have been compiled since the 2010. In this study, we attempted to create an initial Aufeis database for the Qinghai-Tibet Platea...

Qinghai Province is an important part of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau and has special importance in the construction of ecological civilisation in China, which is related to the ecological security of the country and long-term development. The land is t...

The Three-River Headwaters Region (TRHR), located in the hinterland of the Qinghai–Tibet Plateau (QTP), is an important water-conservation and ecological-function reserve in China. Studies of the growth of vegetation in the TRHR and its respons...

China’s croplands are facing serious threats from soil erosion, calling for long-term and spatially explicit assessment to safeguard food security and promote sustainable land use management. Yet limited attention has been directed to examining...

Terrestrial carbon sequestration capacity is an important indicator of ecosystem service function, and the carbon storage value can reflect the climate regulation capacity of the regional ecological environment. The Zoigê alpine grassland is a...

The land use and land cover pattern of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau (QTP) is an important basis for the structure and function of the QTP ecological barrier. It is of great significance to simulate the land use pattern and landscape ecological risk of t...

As an important part of the wetland ecosystem, alpine wetland is not only one of the most important ecological water conservation areas in the Qinghai–Tibet Plateau region, but is also an effective regulator of the local climate. In this study,...

Water provision (WP) is an important service of the terrestrial ecosystem, which contributes to water availability for consumptive use and in situ water supply, sustains the production or flows of multiple ecosystem services (ES). Spatially explicit...

The National Key Ecological Function Zones (NKEFZ) serve as crucial ecological security barriers in China, playing a vital role in enhancing ecosystem services. This study employed the theoretical framework of ecological benefits assessment in major...

Gaining knowledge about vegetation sensitivity in response to climate change is a current research priority in the context of accelerated shifts generated by global warming, especially for the Qinghai–Tibet Plateau (QTP), where vegetation is kn...

Mining causes serious destruction of the surface morphology and soil structure of lands, and vegetation restoration on post-mining lands provides an effective way for soil and water conservation. To determine the influence of mining and vegetation re...

Research on the characteristics of land use change in urban agglomerations and its influences on ecosystem service value has important theoretical significance and practical value for supporting spatial development and guaranteeing ecological securit...

The eastern Hengduan Mountains are located in the transition zone between the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau and the Sichuan Basin and are important for global biodiversity and water conservation in China. However, their landscape pattern vulnerability index...

The Three-North Shelterbelt Project is the largest ecological engineering initiative in China to date, distinguished by its immense scale, extended construction period, and widespread benefits for the population. The gross ecosystem product (GEP) ser...

The Yellow River basin (YRB) has played an important role in the forming of Chinese civilization. Located in the upper reaches of the YRB and the southeastern edge of the Qinghai–Tibet Plateau (QTP), the Gannan Plateau (GP), which consists of m...

The Qinghai–Tibet Plateau (QTP), a critical hydrological regulator for Asia through its extensive glacier systems, high-altitude lakes, and intricate network of rivers, exhibits amplified sensitivity to climate-driven alterations in precipitati...

The alpine vegetation of the Qinghai–Tibet Plateau (QTP) is extremely vulnerable and sensitive to climatic fluctuations, making it an ideal area to study the potential impacts of climate on vegetation dynamics. Fractional vegetation cover (FVC)...

The Three-River Headwaters Region (TRHR) is an important part of the ecological security barrier of the Qinghai–Tibet Plateau in China. Twenty years after the implementation of the TRHR ecological protection and construction project, the restor...

Lake surface water area (LSWA) and lake surface water temperature (LSWT) are critical indicators of climate change, responding rapidly to global warming. However, studies on the synergistic variations of LSWA and LSWT are scarce, and the coupling rel...

The ongoing shifts in climate, coupled with human activities, are leading to significant land desertification; thus, understanding the long-term variations in ecosystem services as well as the driving factors has a significant value for ensuring ecol...