The Tibetan Plateau as a whole is heating up twice as ... The family's herd has dwindled from 500 animals to 120. The next step seems inevitable: selling their remaining livestock and moving ...

The genomes of living animals are littered with DNA from long-gone relatives ... Nestled in the middle of the Himalayas is the Tibetan plateau—a large, flat, largely grassy expanse with an average ...

The Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, with its low oxygen, low temperature and scarcity of food, poses severe challenges to the physiological adaptation of animals -- in which gut microbiota plays a crucial ...

KATHMANDU, May 2 -- The Tibet Plateau Blue Agricultural Company is going to purchase haylage and animal fodder from Nepal. The Tibetan company signed an agreement with two companies of Nepal ...

These microorganisms may carry new virulence factors that make plants, animals and humans vulnerable,” says the study. The Tibetan plateau, known as the “water tower of Asia”, source of ...

T., and J. M. Foggin. 1999. The plateau pika (Ochotona curzoniae) is a keystone species for biodiversity on the Tibetan plateau. Animal Conservation 2:235-240. UNEP/GRID-Arendal 2007. Water towers of ...