Publication Date:
2011-05-11
Description:
In their recent paper “Winter and spring warming result in delayed spring phenology on the Tibetan Plateau,” Yu et al. (1) reported an interesting but unexpected result that spring phenology initiated retreating in the mid-1990s, despite continued warming for grasslands (both steppe and meadow) on the Tibetan Plateau, and shortening the length of the growing season of the steppe together with an advancing end. Although we have not observed the same phenomenon in our own many years of field studies on the eastern edge of the Tibetan Plateau, we believed that there were indeed some complicated yet poorly understood dynamics...
Keywords:
Letters
Print ISSN:
0027-8424
Electronic ISSN:
1091-6490
Topics:
Biology
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Medicine
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Natural Sciences in General
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