Xinquan Zhao

TL;DR: To reduce the uncertainties and to improve the precision of the predictions of the impacts of climate change and human activities on biogeochemical cycles, efforts should focus on conducting more field observation studies, integrating data within improved models, and developing new knowledge about coupling among carbon, nitrogen, and phosphorus bioge biochemical cycles.

TL;DR: The Third Pole (TP) is experiencing rapid warming and is currently in its warmest period in the past 2,000 years as mentioned in this paper, and the latest development in multidisciplinary TP research is reviewed in this paper.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigated the independent and combined effects of experimental warming and grazing on plant species diversity on the north-eastern Tibetan Plateau, a region highly vulnerable to ongoing climate and land use changes.

TL;DR: It is demonstrated that longer-term, large-scale changes to leaf litter decomposition will be driven primarily by both direct warming effects and concomitant shifts in plant growth form composition, with a much smaller role for changes in litter quality within species.

TL;DR: The findings suggest that the rangelands on the Tibetan Plateau, and the pastoralists who depend on them, may be vulnerable to future climate changes and grazing may be an important tool to keep warming-induced shrub expansion in check.