Freeze-thaw desertification of alpine meadow in Qilian Mountains and the implications for alpine ecosystem management

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(2023) Ning Zhan et al.   Scientific Data

Impacts of alpine shrub-meadow degradation on its ecosystem services and spatial patterns in Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau

(2022) Dawen Qian et al.   ECOLOGICAL INDICATORS

Consistent responses of ecosystem CO2 exchange to grassland degradation in alpine meadow of the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau

(2022) Danghui Xu et al.   ECOLOGICAL INDICATORS

Soil microbial distribution and assembly are related to vegetation biomass in the alpine permafrost regions of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau

(2022) Ming-Hui Wu et al.   SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT

Soil organic carbon stock responded more sensitively to degradation in alpine meadows than in alpine steppes on the Qinghai‐Tibetan Plateau

(2022) Zhenchao Zhang et al.   LAND DEGRADATION & DEVELOPMENT

Nonlinear effects of thermokarst lakes on peripheral vegetation greenness across the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau using stable isotopes and satellite detection

(2022) Yuanhong Deng et al.   REMOTE SENSING OF ENVIRONMENT

Warming changed the relationship between species diversity and primary productivity of alpine meadow on the Tibetan Plateau

(2022) Li Ma et al.   ECOLOGICAL INDICATORS

Freeze-thaw erosion mechanism and preventive actions of highway subgrade soil in an alpine meadow on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau

(2022) Guanqing Wu et al.   ENGINEERING FAILURE ANALYSIS

Fragmentation alters the soil water conservation capacity of hillside alpine meadows on the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau

(2022) Zeng Cui et al.   GEODERMA

Characteristics and controlling factors of alpine grassland vegetation patch patterns on the central Qinghai-Tibetan plateau

(2021) Wei Zhang et al.   ECOLOGICAL INDICATORS

Vegetation responses to climate change in the Qilian Mountain Nature Reserve, Northwest China

(2021) Xiang Gao et al.   Global Ecology and Conservation

Regulation of alpine meadow patch coverage on runoff and sediment under natural rainfall on the eastern Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau

(2021) Yali Niu et al.   JOURNAL OF HYDROLOGY

Nutrients available in the soil regulate the changes of soil microbial community alongside degradation of alpine meadows in the northeast of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau

(2021) Haiyun Li et al.   SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT

Top-down degradation of alpine meadow in the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau: Gravelization initiate hillside surface aridity and meadow community disappearance

(2021) Zeng Cui et al.   CATENA

A GWR downscaling method to reconstruct high-resolution precipitation dataset based on GSMaP-Gauge data: A case study in the Qilian Mountains, Northwest China

(2021) Hong Wang et al.   SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT

Influence of degradation on soil water availability in an alpine swamp meadow on the eastern edge of the Tibetan Plateau

(2020) Tao Pan et al.   SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT

Carbon Thaw Rate Doubles when Accounting for Subsidence in a Permafrost Warming Experiment

(2020) Heidi Rodenhizer et al.   Journal of Geophysical Research-Biogeosciences

Precipitation controls seed bank size and its role in alpine meadow community regeneration with increasing altitude

(2020) Hang An et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Impacts of climate-induced permafrost degradation on vegetation: A review

(2020) Xiao-Ying Jin et al.   Advances in Climate Change Research

Growth stage-dependent responses of carbon fixation process of alpine grasslands to climate change over the Tibetan Plateau, China

(2020) Yongfa You et al.   AGRICULTURAL AND FOREST METEOROLOGY

The effects of freeze-thaw cycles at different initial soil water contents on soil erodibility in Chinese Mollisol region

(2020) Lei Wang et al.   CATENA

Freeze–Thaw Changes of Seasonally Frozen Ground on the Tibetan Plateau from 1960 to 2014

(2020) Siqiong Luo et al.   JOURNAL OF CLIMATE

Effects of freeze-thaw cycles on soil macropores and its implications on formation of hummocks in alpine meadows in the Qinghai Lake watershed, northeastern Qinghai-Tibet Plateau

(2020) Zhou Gao et al.   JOURNAL OF SOILS AND SEDIMENTS

Active layer freeze-thaw and water storage dynamics in permafrost environments inferred from InSAR

(2020) Jingyi Chen et al.   REMOTE SENSING OF ENVIRONMENT

Shift in nurse effect from facilitation to competition with increasing size of Salix cupularis canopy in a desertified alpine meadow on the Tibetan Plateau

(2020) Miao liu et al.   CATENA

Lateral flow between bald and vegetation patches induces the degradation of alpine meadow in Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau

(2020) Xiao-Jin Jiang et al.   SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT

Bacterial richness is negatively related to potential soil multifunctionality in a degraded alpine meadow

(2020) Jie Wang et al.   ECOLOGICAL INDICATORS

Evaluation and spatial distribution characteristics of freeze-thaw erosion intensity in the Yalu Tsangpo River basin on the basis of geographic information system

(2019) Yuefeng Lu et al.   Geomatics Natural Hazards & Risk

Past and Projected Freezing/Thawing Indices in the Northern Hemisphere

(2019) Xiaoqing Peng et al.   Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology

Overgrazing leads to soil cracking that later triggers the severe degradation of alpine meadows on the Tibetan Plateau

(2019) Yujie Niu et al.   LAND DEGRADATION & DEVELOPMENT

Can intercrops improve soil water infiltrability and preferential flow in rubber-based agroforestry system?

(2019) Xiai Zhu et al.   SOIL & TILLAGE RESEARCH

Effects of antecedent moisture and macroporosity on infiltration and water flow in frozen soil

(2019) Freda Pittman et al.   HYDROLOGICAL PROCESSES

The effect of desertification on frozen soil on the Qinghai-Tibet plateau

(2019) Luyang Wang et al.   SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT

Degraded patch formation significantly changed microbial community composition in alpine meadow soils

(2019) Rongxiao Che et al.   SOIL & TILLAGE RESEARCH

Effects of degradation severity on the physical, chemical and mechanical properties of topsoil in alpine meadow on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, west China

(2019) Guorong Li et al.   CATENA

The effect of soil water content and erodibility on losses of available nitrogen and phosphorus in simulated freeze-thaw conditions

(2018) Yuting Cheng et al.   CATENA

Effects of small-scale patchiness of alpine grassland on ecosystem carbon and nitrogen accumulation and estimation in northeastern Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau

(2018) Yu Qin et al.   GEODERMA

Recent dynamics of hydro-ecosystems in thermokarst depressions in Central Siberia from satellite and in situ observations: Importance for agriculture and human life

(2018) Elena A. Zakharova et al.   SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT

Hydrothermal variations in soils resulting from the freezing and thawing processes in the active layer of an alpine grassland in the Qilian Mountains, northeastern Tibetan Plateau

(2018) Qingfeng Wang et al.   THEORETICAL AND APPLIED CLIMATOLOGY

Changes in freezing and thawing indices over the source region of the Yellow River from 1980 to 2014

(2018) Rui Wang et al.   JOURNAL OF FORESTRY RESEARCH

Warming and land use change concurrently erode ecosystem services in Tibet

(2018) Kelly A. Hopping et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Variations in soil δ13C with alpine meadow degradation on the eastern Qinghai–Tibet Plateau

(2018) Yunfei Zhao et al.   GEODERMA

Soil aggregate stability in Mediterranean and tropical agro-ecosystems: effect of plant roots and soil characteristics

(2017) Yves Le Bissonnais et al.   PLANT AND SOIL

Plant spatial patterns identify alternative ecosystem multifunctionality states in global drylands

(2017) Miguel Berdugo et al.   Nature Ecology & Evolution

Changes in Freezing-Thawing Index and Soil Freeze Depth Over the Heihe River Basin, Western China

(2016) Xiaoqing Peng et al.   ARCTIC ANTARCTIC AND ALPINE RESEARCH

Pedogenesis and physicochemical parameters influencing soil carbon and nitrogen of alpine meadows in permafrost regions in the northeastern Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau

(2016) Cuicui Mu et al.   CATENA

Reduced winter runoff in a mountainous permafrost region in the northern Tibetan Plateau

(2016) Tanguang Gao et al.   COLD REGIONS SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

The role of permafrost and soil water in distribution of alpine grassland and its NDVI dynamics on the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau

(2016) Xiaoyun Wang et al.   GLOBAL AND PLANETARY CHANGE

Interactions between freeze–thaw actions, wind erosion desertification, and permafrost in the Qinghai–Tibet Plateau

(2016) Shengbo Xie et al.   NATURAL HAZARDS

Modelling the impacts of spatial heterogeneity in soil hydraulic properties on hydrological process in the upper reach of the Heihe River in the Qilian Mountains, Northwest China

(2015) Xin Jin et al.   HYDROLOGICAL PROCESSES

Effects of trees on infiltrability and preferential flow in two contrasting agroecosystems in Central America

(2013) L. Benegas et al.   AGRICULTURE ECOSYSTEMS & ENVIRONMENT

Responses of typical grasslands in a semi-arid basin on the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau to climate change and disturbances

(2013) Y. Qin et al.   Environmental Earth Sciences

Changes in plant community diversity and aboveground biomass along with altitude within an alpine meadow on the Three-River source region

(2012) WenJun Sa et al.   CHINESE SCIENCE BULLETIN

Impact of alpine meadow degradation on soil hydraulic properties over the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau

(2012) Chen Zeng et al.   JOURNAL OF HYDROLOGY

Effects of patch characteristics and within patch heterogeneity on the accuracy of urban land cover estimates from visual interpretation

(2012) Weiqi Zhou et al.   LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY

Shrub expansion in tundra ecosystems: dynamics, impacts and research priorities

(2011) Isla H Myers-Smith et al.   Environmental Research Letters

Permafrost degradation and its environmental effects on the Tibetan Plateau: A review of recent research

(2010) Meixue Yang et al.   EARTH-SCIENCE REVIEWS

Spatial variability of soil moisture at typical alpine meadow and steppe sites in the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau permafrost region

(2010) Zhaoping Yang et al.   Environmental Earth Sciences

Relationship between ground ice and solifluction: Field measurements in the Daisetsu Mountains, northern Japan

(2010) Hotaka Matsumoto et al.   PERMAFROST AND PERIGLACIAL PROCESSES

The influence of degradation of the swamp and alpine meadows on CH4 and CO2 fluxes on the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau

(2009) Junfeng Wang et al.   Environmental Earth Sciences

The effect of climate warming and permafrost thaw on desertification in the Qinghai–Tibetan Plateau

(2009) Xian Xue et al.   GEOMORPHOLOGY

Parameter estimation and uncertainty analysis of SWAT model in upper reaches of the Heihe river basin

(2009) Zhanling Li et al.   HYDROLOGICAL PROCESSES