The rising human footprint in the Tibetan Plateau threatens the effectiveness of ecological restoration on vegetation growth

X Liu, W Zhao, Y Yao, P Pereira - Journal of Environmental Management, 2024 - Elsevier
Ecological restoration projects in the Tibetan Plateau aimed to reverse ecosystem
degradation and safeguard the fragile alpine ecological environment. However, it is still …

Weakening amplification of grassland greening to transpiration fraction of evapotranspiration over the Tibetan Plateau during 2001-2020

Z Jin, Q You, Z Zuo, M Li, G Sun, N Pepin… - Agricultural and Forest …, 2023 - Elsevier
Evapotranspiration plays a key role in regulating the water cycle in terrestrial ecosystems.
Transpiration fraction to evapotranspiration (TF) characterizes the role of vegetation function …

Short-term fluctuations of ecosystem services beneath long-term trends

H Wang, J Zhan, C Wang, B Chen, Z Yang… - Resources, Conservation …, 2024 - Elsevier
Ecosystem services (ESs) play a crucial role in ecosystem management and landscape
planning. While previous studies have started to focus on the long-term trends of ESs, there …

Climate and scale are critical for illustrating the links between carbon and water services across Qinghai-Tibet plateau

Y Lü, Y Wang, L Yin, D Lü, X Wang - Catena, 2023 - Elsevier
Carbon storage (CS) and water yield (WY) are crucial for the ecological sustainability of
ecosystem services (ESs). While the relationship between these services has been debated …

[HTML][HTML] Spatio-temporal dynamics of ecosystem service values in China's Northeast Tiger-Leopard National Park from 2005 to 2020: Evidence from environmental …

Y Zhai, W Li, S Shi, Y Gao, Y Chen, Y Ding - Ecological Indicators, 2023 - Elsevier
Abstract The Northeast Tiger-Leopard National Park (NTLNP) in China is an area of great
ecological significance, known for its abundant wilderness resources and biodiversity …

Upwind moisture controls on interannual variations of precipitation and vegetation in China's drylands

Y Li, R Xu, Z Yang, S Zhou, M Lu, H Lin… - Geophysical …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Dryland precipitation depends on upwind and local moisture sources via moisture recycling.
How upwind moisture variations affect interannual variations of downwind precipitation and …

Tracking moisture sources of precipitation over China

Y Wang, X Liu, D Zhang, P Bai - Journal of Geophysical …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Moisture of precipitation originates from terrestrial and oceanic evaporation through
atmospheric transport. Understanding the contributions from different moisture sources to …

Crops feed rain to drylands in Northwest China

Q An, A Staal, L Liu, Y Cheng, J Liu, G Huang - Earth's Future, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
As a key region supplementing China's limited croplands, Northwest China has undergone
rapid cropland expansion over the past decades to satisfy rising food demand from …

Hydrological impacts of vegetation cover change in China through terrestrial moisture recycling

D Xie, Y Zhang, M Zhang, Y Tian, Y Cao, Y Mei… - Science of The Total …, 2024 - Elsevier
Terrestrial moisture recycling (TMR), characterized by a continuous process comprising
green water flow (ie, terrestrial evaporation), atmospheric transport, and terrestrial …

[PDF][PDF] Recycling and transport of evapotranspiration over the Tibetan Plateau: Detected by a water vapour tracer method embedded in regional climate model

Y Tang, J Dan, M Zhang, H Jiang… - International Journal of …, 2023 - researchgate.net
With an average elevation of 4000 m, the Tibetan Plateau (TP) exerts a global influence on
weather and climate. To investigate and quantify the impact of terrestrial evapotranspiration …