On the Tibetan Plateau, especially its dry northern flank, people are already affected by a warmer climate. The grasslands and wetlands are deteriorating, and the permafrost that feeds them with ...

Theoretical ecology research at LZU aims to develop models on the grassland and arid land ecosystems ... and agricultural management plans. The Tibetan Plateau has many unique animal and plant ...

Most of Asia's major rivers find their source on the Tibetan plateau. However as the global temperature rises, Tibet’s glaciers are melting and grassland permafrost is thawing at an alarming rate.

The hardest places on Earth are found in the Tibetan Plateau, which features enormous grasslands, glaciers, and snow-capped summits. A recent study indicates that the Denisovans, an extinct human ...

Theory and application of grassland agriculture The grassland ... Livestock in Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau face extreme conditions and lack of legume forage. CPAST researchers, led by Nan Zhibiao ...

More than 500,000 livestock could also be disturbed, and the inundation of grassland ... the plateau's Hoh Xil Nature Reserve "burst", leading to a blockage of the migration route for Tibetan ...

He will share his work titled "Nature Conservation and Public Participation: Practices of a Grassroots Environmental NGO on the Tibetan Plateau." This event is open to faculty, graduate students, and ...

Human-Wildlife Conflicts, Vol. 2, No. 2 (Fall 2008), pp. 200-205 (6 pages) Borrini-Feverabend, G., A. Kathari, and G. Oviedo, 2004. Indigenous and local communities ...

Using primarily ethnographic methods, I have conducted research on property rights, natural resource conflicts, environmental history, development and landscape transformation, grassland management ..