Due to its lofty height, the Tibetan Plateau features some of the harshest environments in the
world with extreme coldness, low oxygen, high UV radiation, and in places, severe aridity …

Over the last two decades, many quantitative paleoaltimetry reconstructions of the Tibetan
Plateau have been published, but they are still preliminary and controversial, although …

The remarkable uplift of the Tibetan Plateau in the Neogene had great impacts on the
climate and environment of East Asia and even the world. Therefore, establishment of the …

Estimates of the permafrost-climate feedback vary in magnitude and sign, partly because
permafrost carbon stability in warmer-than-present conditions is not well constrained. Here …

Holding particular biological resources, the Tibetan Plateau is a unique geologic-
geographic-biotic interactively unite and hence play an important role in the global …

The complex and contrasted distribution of terrestrial biota in Asia has been linked to active
tectonics and dramatic climatic changes during the Neogene. However, the timings of the …

The ubiquity of microplastics (MPs) in the environment has raised wide concern; however,
the distribution of MPs in the soils of remote areas at the Tibetan Plateau is poorly …

Gymnocypris przewalskii, a cyprinid fish endemic to the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau, has
evolved unique morphological, physiological and genetic characteristics to adapt to the …

Well adapted to extremely cold winters (hypothermia) and low oxygen (hypoxia), the Tibetan
antelope (or chiru), Pantholops hodgsonii Abel, is an iconic species in the Tibetan Plateau …

Abstract The Tibetan antelope (Pantholops hodgsonii) is an endemic bovid of the Tibetan
Plateau, which was, until recently, considered an endangered species. Researchers have …