44 Result(s)

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Are Karakoram temperatures out of phase compared to hemispheric trends?

In contrast to a global retreating trend, glaciers in the Karakoram showed stability and/or mass gaining during the past decades. This “Karakoram Anomaly” has been assumed to result from an out-of-phase temper...

Fayaz Asad, Haifeng Zhu, Hui Zhang, Eryuan Liang, Sher Muhammad… in Climate Dynamics (2017)

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Global Cryosphere Evolution and Land Surface Processes on the Tibetan Plateau

Land surface process studies over the Tibetan Plateau had made large achievements in the last three decades, focus mainly on: (1) Multi-sphere interactions in the Tibetan Plateau and their impacts on regional ...

Cunde **ao, Lide Tian, Qingbai Wu… in The Geographical Sciences During 1986—2015 (2017)

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Records of Environmental Changes in Physical Geography

From the viewpoints of physical geography, river and lake terraces, glacial moraines, lake sediments, ice core, stalagmite, tree-rings, loess and paleo-soils, etc. provide broad materials and contain multi-pro...

Li** Zhu, Qingfeng Ma, Jifeng Zhang… in The Geographical Sciences During 1986—2015 (2017)

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Temperature thresholds for the onset of xylogenesis in alpine shrubs on the Tibetan Plateau

The threshold minimum air temperature driving xylem growth of alpine  Rhododendron aganniphum is lower than that commonly observed at the treeline of conife...

**aoxia Li, Sergio Rossi, Eryuan Liang, J. Julio Camarero in Trees (2016)

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Impact of plot shape and size on the evaluation of treeline dynamics in the Tibetan Plateau

Field survey methods influence the assessment of treeline structure and inferences on reconstructed treeline dynamics.

Yafeng Wang, Haifeng Zhu, Eryuan Liang, J. Julio Camarero in Trees (2016)

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Global warming-related tree growth decline and mortality on the north-eastern Tibetan plateau

Semi-arid forests at the limit of their existence close to the Gobi Desert in Inner Asia might be vulnerable to warming-induced drought stress. Yet, not much is known about the impact of global-change-type dro...

Eryuan Liang, Christoph Leuschner, Choimaa Dulamsuren, Bettina Wagner… in Climatic Change (2016)

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Woody biomass production lags stem-girth increase by over one month in coniferous forests

Wood is the main terrestrial biotic reservoir for long-term carbon sequestration¹, and its formation in trees consumes around 15% of anthropogenic carbon dioxide emissions each year². However, the seasonal dynami...

Henri E. Cuny, Cyrille B. K. Rathgeber, David Frank, Patrick Fonti… in Nature Plants (2015)

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The alpine dwarf shrub Cassiope fastigiata in the Himalayas: does it reflect site-specific climatic signals in its annual growth rings?

This is the first time to show that alpine Cassiope fastigiata shrubs form distinct annual growth rings and record climatic signals.

Eryuan Liang, Wenwen Liu, ** Ren, Binod Dawadi, Dieter Eckstein in Trees (2015)

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Collecting and Processing Wood Microcores for Monitoring Xylogenesis

Detailed analyses of cambium activity and wood formation need repeated samplings of the develo** xylem and specific procedures for sample preparation. In order to minimize the damage to the stem, wood sample...

Annie Deslauriers, Sergio Rossi, Eryuan Liang in Plant Microtechniques and Protocols (2015)

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Phenological variation in height growth and needle unfolding of Smith fir along an altitudinal gradient on the southeastern Tibetan Plateau

Little is known about variations in tree phenology and their driving forces on the Tibetan Plateau. Herein, we monitored shoot growth and needle unfolding of Smith fir (Abies georgei var. smithii) between 3,800 a...

Yafeng Wang, **aoxia Li, Binod Dawadi, Dieter Eckstein, Eryuan Liang in Trees (2013)

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How can Populus euphratica cope with extremely dry growth conditions at 2,800 m a.s.l. on the northern Tibetan Plateau?

Euphrates poplar (Populus euphratica) is a key species of Tugai forests in the central Asian deserts and has been the topic of dendrochronological studies in west China since the 1980s. However, little is known a...

Eryuan Liang, ** Ren, Shengbang Zhang, Xuemei Shao, Dieter Eckstein in Trees (2013)

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Has an extending growing season any effect on the radial growth of Smith fir at the timberline on the southeastern Tibetan Plateau?

The growing season of high-elevation forests will presumably lengthen in response to warming. However, little is known about long-term effects of an extended growing season, particularly on the Tibetan Plateau...

Bo Liu, Yan Li, Dieter Eckstein, Li** Zhu, Binod Dawadi, Eryuan Liang in Trees (2013)

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Annual ring widths are good predictors of changes in net primary productivity of alpine Rhododendron shrubs in the Sergyemla Mountains, southeast Tibet

It is unclear whether annual ring widths (ARW) are good predictors of changes in net primary productivity (NPP) of trees or shrubs in cold environments. We test if the simulated NPP with inputs of observed lea...

Gaoqiang Kong, Tianxiang Luo, **nsheng Liu, Lin Zhang, Eryuan Liang in Plant Ecology (2012)

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Growth variation in Abies georgei var. smithii along altitudinal gradients in the Sygera Mountains, southeastern Tibetan Plateau

A network of nine Smith fir (Abies georgei var. smithii) ring-width chronologies was constructed from sites ranging in elevation from 3,550 to 4,390 m above sea level (a.s.l.) in the Sygera Mountains, southeaster...

Eryuan Liang, Yafeng Wang, Yan Xu, Bo Liu, Xuemei Shao in Trees (2010)

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Millennial temperature reconstruction based on tree-ring widths of Qilian juniper from Wulan, Qinghai Province, China

The climate of the past 1000 years is an important context for evaluating the recent climate warming. However, there are few 1000-year-long climate reconstructions with annual resolution in the Qinghai-Tibet P...

HaiFeng Zhu, YongHong Zheng, XueMei Shao, **aoHong Liu, Yan Xu… in Chinese Science Bulletin (2008)

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Has global change induced divergent trends in radial growth of Pinus sylvestris and Pinus halepensis at their bioclimatic limit? The example of the Sainte-Baume forest (south-east France)