Response of Tibetan Plateau lakes to climate change: Trends, patterns, and mechanisms

G Zhang, T Yao, H Xie, K Yang, L Zhu, CK Shum… - Earth-Science …, 2020 - Elsevier
The wide distribution of natural lakes over the Tibetan Plateau, the highest and largest
plateau on Earth, have received extensive attention due to global warming. In this Review …

Elevation dependent warming over the Tibetan Plateau: Patterns, mechanisms and perspectives

Q You, D Chen, F Wu, N Pepin, Z Cai, B Ahrens… - Earth-Science …, 2020 - Elsevier
Abstract The Tibetan Plateau (TP) is also known as the “Third Pole”. Elevation dependent
warming (EDW), the phenomenon that warming rate changes systematically with elevation …

High mountain areas

R Hock, G Rasul, C Adler, B Cáceres, S Gruber… - IPCC special report on …, 2019 - iris.unito.it
The cryosphere (including, snow, glaciers, permafrost, lake and river ice) is an integral
element of high mountain regions, which are home to roughly 10% of the global population …

Review of snow cover variation over the Tibetan Plateau and its influence on the broad climate system

Q You, T Wu, L Shen, N Pepin, L Zhang, Z Jiang… - Earth-Science …, 2020 - Elsevier
Variation in snow cover over the Tibetan Plateau (TP) is a key component of climate change
and variability, and critical for many hydrological and biological processes. This review first …

Ecosystem service value of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau significantly increased during 25 years

W Jiang, Y Lü, Y Liu, W Gao - Ecosystem services, 2020 - Elsevier
As a highly valuable region that provides multiple important ecosystem services, the Qinghai-
Tibetan Plateau is vulnerable to climate change and human activities, which have induced …

[HTML][HTML] Relationships between climate change, phenology, edaphic factors, and net primary productivity across the Tibetan Plateau

H Sun, Y Chen, J Xiong, C Ye, Z Yong, Y Wang… - International Journal of …, 2022 - Elsevier
Net primary productivity (NPP) is an important indicator of ecosystem function and
sustainability. It plays an important role in the global carbon cycle, especially in the Tibetan …

Water and heat availability are drivers of the aboveground plant carbon accumulation rate in alpine grasslands on the Tibetan Plateau

J Sun, TC Zhou, M Liu, YC Chen, GH Liu… - Global ecology and …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Aim Climate change is expected to have important effects on plant phenology and carbon
storage, with further shifts predicted in the future. Therefore, we proposed the community …

[HTML][HTML] Precipitation dominants synergies and trade-offs among ecosystem services across the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau

J Chen, Y Wang, J Sun, E Liang, M Shen… - Global Ecology and …, 2021 - Elsevier
Understanding synergies and trade-offs of ecosystem services (ESs), finding influencing
factors related to these ESs, and determining how these factors regulate spatiotemporal …

Holocene lake-level fluctuations of Selin Co on the central Tibetan plateau: Regulated by monsoonal precipitation or meltwater?

Y Hou, H Long, J Shen, L Gao - Quaternary Science Reviews, 2021 - Elsevier
Abstract Over the Tibetan Plateau (TP), lakes as paleoenvironmental archives have been
the most extensively investigated for their sensitivities to climate change on different …

100 years of lake evolution over the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau

G Zhang, Y Ran, W Wan, W Luo… - Earth System Science …, 2021 - essd.copernicus.org
Lakes can be effective indicators of climate change, and this is especially so for the lakes
over the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau (QTP), the highest plateau in the world, which undergo little …