Heterogeneous occurrence of evergreen broad-leaved forests in East Asia: Evidence from plant fossils by Jiagang Zhao, Shufeng Li, Jian Huang, Wenna Ding, Mengxiao Wu, Tao Su, Alexander Farnsworth, Paul J. Valdes, Linlin Chen, Yaowu Xing, Zhekun Zhou

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Stability and Failure Mechanism Analyses of the Zhenggang Landslide in Southwestern China by Shengnian Wang, Weiya Xu, Jinyuan Liu

“…The Zhenggang landslide is an ancient complex landslide located at southeastern Tibetan Plateau, China. Due to intensive rainfalls in 2008 and heavy snowfalls in 2009, the Zhenggang landslide exhibited a high probability of reactivation once again. …”
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Spatial Heterogeneity in Tropospheric Column Ozone over the Indian Subcontinent: Long-Term Climatology and Possible Association with Natural and Anthropogenic Activities by Gayatry Kalita, Pradip Kumar Bhuyan

“…Monthly averaged tropospheric ozone residual (TOR) data from TOMS and OMI during the period 1979–2009 are used to study the spatial distribution of tropospheric column ozone within the landmass of the Indian subcontinent, the Tibetan plateau in the north and the Bay of Bengal in the south. …”
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Single-nucleus transcriptomes reveal the underlying mechanisms of dynamic whitening in thermogenic adipose tissue in goats by Manman Li, Nange Ma, Shujie Luo, Yuyi Lu, Xixi Yan, Yang Li, Xinmei Li, Zhuohui Li, Zhipei Wu, Zhenyu Wei, Wei Wang, Huimei Fan, Yu Jiang, Yan Xiong, Yu Wang

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Effect of High-Altitude Environment on Driving Safety: A Study on Drivers’ Mental Workload, Situation Awareness, and Driving Behaviour by Xinyan Wang, Wu Bo, Weihua Yang, Suping Cui, Pengzi Chu

“…Based on a survey, the data of 356 lowlanders engaging in driving activities at Tibetan Plateau (high-altitude group) and 341 lowlanders engaging in driving activities at low altitudes (low-altitude group) were compared and analyzed. …”
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Identification of bald patches in degraded alpine meadows by UAV-based remote sensing and deep learning by Lu Wang, Lulu Cui, Zihan Song, Min Zheng, Chengyi Li, Xilai Li

“…Alpine meadow patchiness is the starting point and an important feature of the formation of ‘Black Beach’ on the Tibetan Plateau, which directly threatens regional ecological security and economic development. …”
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Open-world disaster information identification from multimodal social media by Chen Yu, Bin Hu, Zhiguo Wang

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Comparative Genome Characterization of a Petroleum-Degrading Bacillus subtilis Strain DM2 by Shi-Weng Li, Meng-Yuan Liu, Rui-Qi Yang

“…The complete genome sequence of Bacillus subtilis strain DM2 isolated from petroleum-contaminated soil on the Tibetan Plateau was determined. The genome of strain DM2 consists of a circular chromosome of 4,238,631 bp for 4458 protein-coding genes and a plasmid of 84,240 bp coding for 103 genes. …”
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Correction of TRMM 3B42V7 Based on Linear Regression Models over China by Shaohua Liu, Denghua Yan, Tianling Qin, Baisha Weng, Meng Li

“…Although the performance of corrected TRMM precipitation from the LRMs has been increased in Northwest China and Tibetan plateau, the error of corrected TRMM precipitation is still significant due to the large deviation between TRMM precipitation and low-density gauge precipitation.…”
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Krait2: a versatile software for microsatellite investigation, visualization and marker development by Lianming Du, Jiahao Chen, Dalin Sun, Kelei Zhao, Qianglin Zeng, Nan Yang

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Genome assembly of the grassland caterpillar Gynaephora qinghaiensis by Youpeng Lai, Shan Xiao, Minggang Qin, Xinhai Ye, Fang Wang, Qi Fang

“…Abstract The grassland caterpillars are the most damaging insect pests to the alpine meadow of the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau in China. In this study, we present a genome assembly of one grassland caterpillar Gynaephora qinghaiensis by using Oxford Nanopore long-read and BGI short-read sequencing. …”
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Weakened future surface warming in China due to national planned afforestation through biophysical feedback by Shuaifeng Song, Xiaodong Yan, Xuezhen Zhang, Zhibo Gao, Wenqiang Xie

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Estimation of Areal Mean Rainfall in Remote Areas Using B-SHADE Model by Tao Zhang, Baolin Li, Jinfeng Wang, Maogui Hu, Lili Xu

“…A case study was conducted for the Three-River Headwaters region in the Tibetan Plateau of China, and its performance was compared with traditional methods. …”
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Ecological Waves at Tourist Attractions on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau Promote Greenness of Surrounding Vegetation by Zitao Yang, Li Tian

“…In addition, applying the ripple effect model to urban attractions and city centers (Xining and Lhasa), the results indicated that among the five urban attractions in Xining, Kumbum Monastery, Qinghai Tibetan Culture Center, and Country Farming Ecological Park (with distance restrictions of 2–20 km) have significant positive ecological effects within the built-up area, while the ecological effects of Qinghai Province Museum and Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau Safari Park are not significant. The positive ecological effects of the five urban attractions in Lhasa within the built-up area are not significant, and different attractions have different distance thresholds for ecological effects. …”
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Comparative organelle genomics in Daphniphyllaceae reveal phylogenetic position and organelle structure evolution by Rongxiang Zhang, Ying Liu, Shuwen Liu, Yuemei Zhao, Niyan Xiang, Xiaoman Gao, Tao Yuan

“…The estimation of divergence time indicated that the differentiation of Daphniphyllaceae and Altingiaceae at around 29.86 Mya might be due to the dramatic uplift of Tibetan Plateau during the Oligocene. About 75% of codon changes in organelles were found to be hydrophilic to hydrophobic amino acids. …”
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Climate and soil factors drive the functional and phylogenetic assembly of Qinghai-Tibetan grassland communities via multiple paths by Xiaomei Kang, Yanjun Liu, Xinyang Wu, Lijie Duan, Jiachang Jiang, Aoran Zhang, Wei Qi

“…We estimated the phylogenetic diversity (PD) and community-weighted mean (CWM) and functional diversity (FD) values of four key functional traits in 558 grassland plots across the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau (QTP) and assessed their relationship to climate and soil factors. …”
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Study on Clean Development Mechanism, Quantitative and Sustainable Mechanism by Donghai Yuan, Lipeng Zheng, Yuan Cao, Xufeng Mao, Xueju Huang, Liansheng He, Junqi Li, Mingshun Zhang

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Opposite Effects of Mineral Dust Nonsphericity and Size on Dust‐Induced Snow Albedo Reduction by Tenglong Shi, Cenlin He, Daizhou Zhang, Xuelei Zhang, Xiaoying Niu, Yuxuan Xing, Yang Chen, Jiecan Cui, Wei Pu, Xin Wang

“…Abstract We quantified the combined effects of mineral dust nonsphericity and size on snow albedo reduction using the MOPSMAP (Modeled optical properties of ensembles of aerosol particles) package and SAMDS (Spectral Albedo Model for Dirty Snow) with the consideration of dust from Sahara, Greenland, San Juan Mountains, and Tibetan Plateau. Results indicate that the dust‐induced albedo reduction decreases by up to 30% as the effective radii of dust particles increase in 1–5 μm. …”
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Climate Change Hotspots Identification in China through the CMIP5 Global Climate Model Ensemble by Huanghe Gu, Zhongbo Yu, Jigan Wang, Qin Ju, Chuanguo Yang, Chuanhao Fan

“…Both high (RCP8.5) and low (RCP4.5) greenhouse gas emission trajectories are tested, and both the mean and extreme seasonal temperature and precipitation are considered in identifying regional climate change hotspots. Tarim basin and Tibetan Plateau in West China are identified as persistent regional climate change hotspots in both the RCP4.5 and RCP8.5 scenarios. …”
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Systematic Evaluation of Satellite-Based Rainfall Products over the Brahmaputra Basin for Hydrological Applications by Sagar Ratna Bajracharya, Wahid Palash, Mandira Singh Shrestha, Vijay Ratan Khadgi, Chu Duo, Partha Jyoti Das, Chhimi Dorji

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