Abstract The Tibetan Plateau (TP) exerts strong thermal forcing on the atmosphere over
Asian monsoon region and supplies water resources to adjacent river basins. Recently, the …

Interactions between the atmosphere, biosphere, cryosphere, hydrosphere, and geosphere
are most active in the critical zone, a region extending from the tops of trees to the top of …

Air temperature increases thermally degrade permafrost, which has widespread impacts on
engineering design, resource development, and environmental protection in cold regions …

Quantitative understanding of vegetation vulnerability under drought stress is essential to
initiating drought preparedness and mitigation. In this study, a bivariate probabilistic …

Climate change significantly influences changes in ecological phenomena and processes,
such as species distribution and phenology, thus accelerating the rate of species extinction …

Monitoring and mapping the sensitivity of grassland ecosystems to climate change is crucial
for developing sustainable local grassland management strategies. The sensitivity of alpine …

Natural and social environmental changes in the China's Three Gorges Reservoir Region
(TGRR) have received worldwide attention. Identifying interannual changes in vegetation …

Understanding precipitation-vegetation interaction is of great importance to implementing
adaptation and mitigation measures for terrestrial ecosystems. Many studies have explored …

Alpine meadow and alpine steppe are the two most widely distributed nonzonal vegetation
types in the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau. In the context of global climate change, the differences in …

The growing season normalized difference vegetation index (NDVI GS) of vegetation and
their responses to climate extremes are critical in assessing the resistance and resilience of …