Climatic tolerance, especially drought tolerance, is one of the major factors shaping the geographic distributions of plant species. Thus, the general decline in rainfall from the Himalaya-Hengduan Mountains (HHM) to the inner Qinghai-Tibet Plateau (QTP) might account for the significant differences in species distributions and richness between the two regions. To test this hypothesis, we condu...

The paper is focused on the regularities and character of the response of the regional landscapes of the Angara–Lena Plateau to variations in the global climate system during the Holocene. They were revealed by integrated studies of four peat bogs of the plateau—an important area for the understanding of the environmental dynamics in the entire Baikal region. Age models for the records obtained...

[1] Field work and topography analysis show that remnant, local areas of a low-relief landscape or erosion surfaces are geographically continuous across the southeastern Tibetan Plateau margin. We correlate these remnant surfaces as a paleolandscape that formed at low elevation. Remnants of this paleolandscape are preserved because incision of the fluvial system has been largely limited to majo...

Although intradermal primary tumor growth and spontaneous liver metastasis of ESbL-lacZ lymphoma in syngeneic DBA/2 mice are progressive and malignant, they are characterized by a transient plateau period with a constant tumor diameter and a low number of metastasized cells in the liver. This period, which was shown to be immune dependent, was followed by a second expansion phase characterized ...

– Geophysical prospection to support the study of urban development sites in South Etruria (Lazio, Italy) from Bronze Age Late Antiquity. Prospection site Vulci using techniques magnetometry and GPR. Detailed plan city recorded over 1.6 hectares eastern edge plateau central Cardo Maximus.

Based on temperature data from 79 meteorological stations, we estimate the warming rate by season on the Tibetan Plateau (TP) during 1984-2013. The warming rate was spatially heterogeneous across seasons over the past 30 years. The northern TP (NTP) experienced more warming than the southern TP (STP) (divided near 33 °N) in all seasons. The greatest north-south difference in warming was 0.70 ± ...

Fluvial landscapes are a result of lithospheric tectonic movement, climate evolution and surface processes. Existing evidence proves that regional deformation can be reflected by the fluvial landforms. The southern Alashan Block lies closest to northeastern Tibetan Plateau has become latest plateau outward expansion boundary. Yabrai Shan is located at intersection Plateau, Ordos Blocks, thereby...

The debate about limits to the human life span is often based on outcomes from mortality at oldest ages among longevity pioneers. To this day, scholars disagree existence of a late-life plateau in mortality. Amid various statistical analys

Ozone is an important pollutant and greenhouse gas, and tropospheric ozone variations are generally associated with both 15 natural and anthropogenic processes. As one of the most pristine and inaccessible regions in the world, the Tibetan Plateau has been considered as an ideal region for studying processes of the background atmosphere. Due to the vast area of the Tibetan Plateau, sites in the...