44 Result(s)

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Linking leaf elemental traits to biomass across forest biomes in the Himalayas

Plants require a number of essential elements in different proportions for ensuring their growth and development. The elemental concentrations in leaves reflect the functions and adaptations of plants under sp...

Nita Dyola, Eryuan Liang, Josep Peñuelas, J. Julio Camarero… in Science China Earth Sciences (2024)

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Shifts of forest resilience after seismic disturbances in tectonically active regions

Forests in tectonically active regions are disturbed by earthquakes. Besides direct injuries to trees, earthquakes also induce stand-wide changes in hydrological conditions, whose effects on long-term forest g...

Shan Gao, Eryuan Liang, Ruishun Liu, **aoming Lu, Sergio Rossi… in Nature Geoscience (2024)

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Impact of Climate Change on Plants in the Nepal Himalayas

Growing evidence shows that growth patterns, distribution range shifts, and modifications of adaptation strategies of plants fingerprint the impacts of climate change. Plants growing in the Himalayan mountains...

Shalik Ram Sigdel, Nita Dyola, Jayram Pandey, Eryuan Liang in Flora and Vegetation of Nepal (2024)

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Contrasting treeline dynamics of pine and birch in response to climate warming in the Karakoram

Pine benefited from a warming climate with increasing recruitment and upslope shifts of alpine treeline but birch treelines were mostly static highlighting the influence of other confounding, local factors.

Munawar Ali, Shalik Ram Sigdel, **angyu Zheng, Fayaz Asad, Ru Huang, Haifeng Zhu… in Trees (2022)

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Intensity, frequency and rate of insect herbivory for an alpine Rhododendron shrub: elevational patterns and leaf-age effects

Uncertainty still exists on the directions and intensity of changes in leaf herbivory under scenarios of global warming. We, therefore, conducted an investigation on insect herbivory along an elevational gradi...

Guangshuai Cui, Lin Zhang, Wei Shen, Ying Guo, Eryuan Liang in Alpine Botany (2022)

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Increased drought effects on the phenology of autumn leaf senescence

Global warming delays the autumn date of foliar senescence (DFS) in recent decades, with positive implications for growing season length and therefore global carbon storage. However, warming-associated drought...

Chaoyang Wu, Jie Peng, Philippe Ciais, Josep Peñuelas… in Nature Climate Change (2022)

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Enhanced habitat loss of the Himalayan endemic flora driven by warming-forced upslope tree expansion

High-elevation trees cannot always reach the thermal treeline, the potential upper range limit set by growing-season temperature. But delineation of the realized upper range limit of trees and quantification o...

**aoyi Wang, Tao Wang, **feng Xu, Zehao Shen, Yong** Yang… in Nature Ecology & Evolution (2022)

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An earlier start of the thermal growing season enhances tree growth in cold humid areas but not in dry areas

Climatic warming alters the onset, duration and cessation of the vegetative season. While previous studies have shown a tight link between thermal conditions and leaf phenology, less is known about the impacts...

Shan Gao, Eryuan Liang, Ruishun Liu, Flurin Babst… in Nature Ecology & Evolution (2022)

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Unexpected climate variability inferred from a 380-year tree-ring earlywood oxygen isotope record in the Karakoram, Northern Pakistan

To provide a long-term context for understanding the “Karakoram Anomaly” in recent glacier studies, we originally aimed to develop an annually resolved multi-century winter–spring precipitation record using tr...

Haifeng Zhu, Ru Huang, Fayaz Asad, Eryuan Liang, Achim Bräuning… in Climate Dynamics (2021)

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Negative growth responses to temperature of sympatric species converge under warming conditions on the southeastern Tibetan Plateau

Warming-induced drought stress leads to convergent and negative growth responses to temperature between sympatric tree species, implying an increasing interspecific competition for soil moisture.

Qiqi Du, Sergio Rossi, **aoming Lu, Yafeng Wang, Haifeng Zhu, Eryuan Liang… in Trees (2020)

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A tree-ring–based summer (June–July) minimum temperature reconstruction for the western Kunlun Mountains since AD 1681

Knowledge of past climatic variability for the Tibetan Plateau (TP), especially the northwestern part of it, is still limited due to the lack of long-term meteorological records. Within this study, we develope...

Ru Huang, Haifeng Zhu, Eryuan Liang, Fayaz Asad… in Theoretical and Applied Climatology (2019)

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A tree ring-based winter temperature reconstruction for the southeastern Tibetan Plateau since 1340 CE

Climatic change is exhibiting significant effects on the ecosystem of the Tibetan Plateau (TP), a climate-sensitive area. In particularly, winter frost, freezing events and snow avalanche frequently causing se...

Ru Huang, Haifeng Zhu, Eryuan Liang, Bo Liu, Jiangfeng Shi, Ruibo Zhang… in Climate Dynamics (2019)

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Fire facilitates warming-induced upward shifts of alpine treelines by altering interspecific interactions

Moderate-severity fire disturbances can accelerate upslope shifts of alpine treelines by reducing interspecific interactions, providing additional evidence for the species interaction mechanism in controlling ...

Yafeng Wang, Bradley Case, **aoming Lu, Aaron M. Ellison, Josep Peñuelas… in Trees (2019)

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Frost controls spring phenology of juvenile Smith fir along elevational gradients on the southeastern Tibetan Plateau

Impacts of climatic means on spring phenology are well documented, whereas the role of climatic variance, such as occurrence of spring frosts, has long been neglected. A large elevational gradient of forests o...

Yafeng Wang, Bradley Case, Sergio Rossi… in International Journal of Biometeorology (2019)

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Sampling strategy and climatic implication of tree-ring cellulose oxygen isotopes of Hippophae tibetana and Abies georgei on the southeastern Tibetan Plateau

The tree-ring cellulose oxygen isotopes (δ¹⁸O) for four trees of Hippophae tibetana and four trees of Abies georgei growing in different locations around the terminal moraine in **ncuo from 1951 to 2010 were meas...

Chenxi Xu, Haifeng Zhu, Takeshi Nakatsuka… in International Journal of Biometeorology (2019)

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Threshold-dependent and non-linear associations between temperature and tree growth at and below the alpine treeline

Eryuan Liang, J. Julio Camarero in Trees (2018)