Historical Landscape Change in Northwestern Yunnan, China

Moseley, Robert K.

doi:10.1659/0276-4741(2006)26[214:hlciny]2.0.co;2

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“…Maritime glaciers in the middle part of the LRB have lower ice terminals and some of them are debris-covered. The Mingyong Glacier (also called the Nainuogeru Glacier) is the biggest glacier in the basin (Moseley, 2006;Baker and Moseley, 2007) with an area of 12.55 km 2 in 2009 (based on the GIC 2nd) and extending 11.5 km from 6740 m to 2700 m a.s.l.…”

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Changes of High Altitude Glaciers from 1969 to 2010 in the Trans-Himalayan Kang Yatze Massif, Ladakh, Northwest India

Schmidt

Nüsser

2012

Arctic, Antarctic, and Alpine Research

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Changes of High Altitude Glaciers from 1969 to 2010 in the Trans-Himalayan Kang Yatze Massif, Ladakh, Northwest India

Schmidt

Nüsser

2012

Arctic, Antarctic, and Alpine Research

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“…During the past five decades, both temperature and precipitation have increased along the southeastern boundary of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau (Fan et al, 2008;Qin et al, 2010;Zhang et al, 2014a). Along with these climatic changes, the alpine timberline has also risen in this region (Moseley, 2006). As one of the dominant tree species there (Wu, 1980), Q. guyavifolia may continue to spread upward on those mountain slopes.…”

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Variations in Leaf Morphological Traits of Quercus guyavifolia (Fagaceae) were Mainly Influenced by Water and Ultraviolet Irradiation at High Elevations on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, China

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Zhang

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IJAB

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Leaf morphological traits vary along elevational gradients so that plants can adapt to their surrounding habitat. However, the abiotic factors that shape those traits are still debatable, especially for plants at high elevations where the environment can be very harsh. Quercus guyavifolia H. Léveillé (Fagaceae) is a woody plant found along the southeastern boundary of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau. Distribution elevations of the species range from 2000 m to 4500 m approximately, providing an excellent opportunity to explore correlations among leaf traits and environmental factors. We used multiple-regression models to investigate spatial trends in leaf morphology and their environmental determinants. As elevation increased, values for leaf area, length, width, the ratio of leaf length to width, shape factor, and petiole length and width decreased significantly and all were positively correlated with mean annual precipitation. Leaf length, the ratio of leaf length to width, and petiole length were negatively correlated with the daily mean maximum intensity of ultraviolet (UV)-B irradiation during the growing season. Our results indicated that the amounts of both precipitation and UV irradiation largely shape the leaf morphology in Q. guyavifolia along the elevation gradient. This study provides evidence for the adaptive plasticity of leaves in response to environments in regions at high elevations.

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“…As Robert Moseley, one of TNC's primary project managers, argued: "Traditional resource management in northwestern Yunnan appears to be more sustainable than previously thought. Managers need to document indigenous ecological knowledge and incorporate it into conservation programs as a complement to modern scientific knowledge" ( [64], p. 219). As TNC began mapping these places, translating them into state-recognizable terms created new tensions and questions.…”

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China’s Indigenous Peoples? How Global Environmentalism Unintentionally Smuggled the Notion of Indigeneity into China

Hathaway

2016

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This article explores how global environmental organizations unintentionally fostered the notion of indigenous people and rights in a country that officially opposed these concepts. In the 1990s, Beijing declared itself a supporter of indigenous rights elsewhere, but asserted that, unlike the Americas and Australia, China had no indigenous people. Instead, China described itself as a land of "ethnic minority" groups, not indigenous groups. In some sense, the state's declaration appeared effective, as none of these ethnic minority groups launched significant grassroots efforts to align themselves with the international indigenous rights movement. At the same time, as international environmental groups increased in number and strength in 1990s China, their policies were undergoing significant transformations to more explicitly support indigenous people. This article examines how this challenging situation arose, and discusses the unintended consequences after a major environmental organization, The Nature Conservancy (TNC), carried out a project using the language of indigeneity in China.

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Historical Landscape Change in Northwestern Yunnan, China

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Cited by 42 publications

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Changes of High Altitude Glaciers from 1969 to 2010 in the Trans-Himalayan Kang Yatze Massif, Ladakh, Northwest India

Changes of High Altitude Glaciers from 1969 to 2010 in the Trans-Himalayan Kang Yatze Massif, Ladakh, Northwest India

Variations in Leaf Morphological Traits of Quercus guyavifolia (Fagaceae) were Mainly Influenced by Water and Ultraviolet Irradiation at High Elevations on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, China

China’s Indigenous Peoples? How Global Environmentalism Unintentionally Smuggled the Notion of Indigeneity into China

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