Review on global change status and its impacts on the Tibetan Plateau environment
Abstract The Tibetan Plateau (TP) holds fundamental ecological and environmental significances to China and Asia. The TP also lies in the core zone of the belt and road initiative. To protect the TP environment, a comprehensive screening on current ecological research status is entailed. The teased...
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croxfordunivpr:10.1093/jpe/rtz038 2024-09-30T14:41:15+00:00 Review on global change status and its impacts on the Tibetan Plateau environment Latif, Aamir Ilyas, Sana Zhang, Yangjian Xin, Yuqin Zhou, Lin Zhou, Quan Strategic Priority Research Program’ Chinese Academy of Sciences National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars of China National Natural Science Foundation of China State Grid Corporation of China 2019 http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/jpe/rtz038 http://academic.oup.com/jpe/advance-article-pdf/doi/10.1093/jpe/rtz038/30257739/rtz038.pdf http://academic.oup.com/jpe/article-pdf/12/6/917/31196299/rtz038.pdf en eng Oxford University Press (OUP) https://academic.oup.com/journals/pages/open_access/funder_policies/chorus/standard_publication_model Journal of Plant Ecology volume 12, issue 6, page 917-930 ISSN 1752-9921 1752-993X journal-article 2019 croxfordunivpr https://doi.org/10.1093/jpe/rtz038 2024-09-17T04:29:45Z Abstract The Tibetan Plateau (TP) holds fundamental ecological and environmental significances to China and Asia. The TP also lies in the core zone of the belt and road initiative. To protect the TP environment, a comprehensive screening on current ecological research status is entailed. The teased out research gap can also be utilized as guidelines for the recently launched major research programs, i.e. the second TP scientific expedition and silk and belt road research plan. The findings showed that the TP has experienced significant temperature increase at a rate of 0.2°C per decade since 1960s. The most robust warming trend was found in the northern plateau. Precipitation also exhibited an increasing trend but with high spatial heterogeneity. Changing climates have caused a series of environmental consequences, including lake area changes, glacier shrinkage, permafrost degradation and exacerbated desertification. The rising temperature is the main reason behind the glaciers shrinkage, snow melting, permafrost degradation and lake area changes on the TP and neighboring regions. The projected loss of glacial area on the plateau is estimated to be around 43% by 2070 and 75% by the end of the century. Vegetation was responsive to the changed environments, varied climates and intensified human activities by changing phenology and productivity. Future global change study should be more oriented toward integrating various research methods and tools, and synthesizing diverse subjects of water, vegetation, atmosphere and soil. Article in Journal/Newspaper permafrost Oxford University Press Journal of Plant Ecology 12 6 917 930 |
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Abstract The Tibetan Plateau (TP) holds fundamental ecological and environmental significances to China and Asia. The TP also lies in the core zone of the belt and road initiative. To protect the TP environment, a comprehensive screening on current ecological research status is entailed. The teased out research gap can also be utilized as guidelines for the recently launched major research programs, i.e. the second TP scientific expedition and silk and belt road research plan. The findings showed that the TP has experienced significant temperature increase at a rate of 0.2°C per decade since 1960s. The most robust warming trend was found in the northern plateau. Precipitation also exhibited an increasing trend but with high spatial heterogeneity. Changing climates have caused a series of environmental consequences, including lake area changes, glacier shrinkage, permafrost degradation and exacerbated desertification. The rising temperature is the main reason behind the glaciers shrinkage, snow melting, permafrost degradation and lake area changes on the TP and neighboring regions. The projected loss of glacial area on the plateau is estimated to be around 43% by 2070 and 75% by the end of the century. Vegetation was responsive to the changed environments, varied climates and intensified human activities by changing phenology and productivity. Future global change study should be more oriented toward integrating various research methods and tools, and synthesizing diverse subjects of water, vegetation, atmosphere and soil. |
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Review on global change status and its impacts on the Tibetan Plateau environment |
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Review on global change status and its impacts on the Tibetan Plateau environment |
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