Vegetation on Tibetan Plateau (IMAGE)

Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences

Vegetation on Tibetan Plateau

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The cover art design is reproduced from two photos taken by Prof. Xunming Wang during his field investigation in the summer of 2013, which show typical vegetation types on the central and southeastern Tibetan Plateau where the climate control on vegetation dynamics has shifted from precipitation to temperature since the mid-1990s.

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<i>Advances in Atmospheric Sciences</i>

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