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DOI	10.3390/app10186488
	Socio-Environmental Dynamics of Alpine Grasslands, Steppes and Meadows of the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau, China: A Commentary
	Feng, Haiying; Squires, Victor R.
通讯作者	Feng, HY
来源期刊	APPLIED SCIENCES-BASEL
EISSN	2076-3417
出版年	2020
卷号	10 期号:18
英文摘要	Alpine grasslands are a common feature on the extensive (2.6 million km(2)) Qinghai-Tibet plateau in western and southwestern China. These grasslands are characterized by their ability to thrive at high altitudes and in areas with short growing seasons and low humidity. Alpine steppe and alpine meadow are the principal plant Formations supporting a rich species mix of grass and forb species, many of them endemic. Alpine grasslands are the mainstay of pastoralism where yaks and hardy Tibetan sheep and Bactrian camels are the favored livestock in the cold arid region. It is not only their importance to local semi nomadic herders, but their role as headwaters of nine major rivers that provide water to more than one billion people in China and in neighboring countries in south and south-east Asia and beyond. Grasslands in this region were heavily utilized in recent decades and are facing accelerated land degradation. Government and herder responses, although quite different, are being implemented as climate change and the transition to the market economy proceeds apace. Problems and prospects for alpine grasslands and the management regimes being imposed (including sedentarization, resettlement and global warming are briefly discussed.
英文关键词	endemism floristics nomadic yaks livestock culture altitude watersheds rivers biodiversity grassland management land degradation rodents policy interventions
类型	Editorial Material
语种	英语
开放获取类型	gold
收录类别	SCI-E ; SSCI
WOS记录号	WOS:000581799600001
WOS关键词	DELAYED SPRING PHENOLOGY ; GREEN-UP DATES ; ECOLOGICAL RESETTLEMENT ; LIVESTOCK SYSTEMS ; WINTER ; DEGRADATION ; KNOWLEDGE ; IMPACTS ; HERDERS ; COVER
WOS类目	Chemistry, Multidisciplinary ; Engineering, Multidisciplinary ; Materials Science, Multidisciplinary ; Physics, Applied
WOS研究方向	Chemistry ; Engineering ; Materials Science ; Physics
资源类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://119.78.100.177/qdio/handle/2XILL650/327081
作者单位	[Feng, Haiying] Beibu Gulf Univ, Qinzhou Dev Res Inst, Qinzhou 535011, Peoples R China; [Squires, Victor R.] Univ Adelaide, Fac Nat Resources, Adelaide, SA 5005, Australia
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Feng, Haiying,Squires, Victor R.. Socio-Environmental Dynamics of Alpine Grasslands, Steppes and Meadows of the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau, China: A Commentary[J],2020,10(18).
APA	Feng, Haiying,&Squires, Victor R..(2020).Socio-Environmental Dynamics of Alpine Grasslands, Steppes and Meadows of the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau, China: A Commentary.APPLIED SCIENCES-BASEL,10(18).
MLA	Feng, Haiying,et al."Socio-Environmental Dynamics of Alpine Grasslands, Steppes and Meadows of the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau, China: A Commentary".APPLIED SCIENCES-BASEL 10.18(2020).