Changes of land cover in the Yarlung Tsangpo River basin from 1985 to 2005

Environmental Earth Sciences

Volumn 68, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 181-188

  Li, Fapeng ^a   Xu, Zongxue ^a   Feng, Youcan ^a   Liu, Mei ^b   Liu, Wenfeng ^a  

^a BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b CHINA UNIVERSITY OF MINING AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Change; Driving force; Land cover; Yarlung Tsangpo River

Indexed keywords

BARE LANDS; BUILT-UP AREAS; CHANGE; DRIVING FORCES; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; HUMAN ACTIVITIES; LAND COVER; LAND-COVER CHANGE; LAND-COVER TYPES; LOW-TO-HIGH; NATURAL FACTORS; SOCIO-ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT; TIBETAN PLATEAU; TIME-PERIODS; VERTICAL DISTRIBUTIONS; WETLAND AREA; YARLUNG-TSANGPO RIVER;

FORESTRY; WETLANDS;

FARMS;

ALTITUDE; ANNUAL VARIATION; BARE SOIL; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; GRASSLAND; HUMAN ACTIVITY; LAND COVER; LAND USE CHANGE; RIVER BASIN; SOCIOECONOMIC IMPACT; WETLAND;

AGRICULTURE; FORESTRY; LAND USE; TIBET; WETLANDS;

BRAHMAPUTRA BASIN; CHINA; QINGHAI-XIZANG PLATEAU;

EID: 84871930303     PISSN: 18666280     EISSN: 18666299     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12665-012-1730-z     Document Type: Article

References (25)

1. Chen X, Zhang Z, Chen X, Shi P (2009) The impact of land use and land cover changes on soil moisture and hydraulic conductivity along the karst hillslopes of southwest China. Environ Earth Sci 59: 811-820.
2. Chu D, Zhang Y, Bianduo C, Liu L (2010) Land use dynamics in Lhasa area, Tibetan Plateau. J Geogr Sci 20: 899-912.
3. Cui X, Graf HF (2009) Recent land cover changes on the Tibetan Plateau: a review. Clim Change 94: 47-61.
4. Cui X, Graf HF, Langmann B, Chen W, Huang R (2006) Climate impacts of anthropogenic land use changes on the Tibetan Plateau. Glob Planet Change 54: 33-56.
5. Ding M, Zhang Y, Shen Z, Liu L, Zhang W, Wang Z, Bai W, Zheng D (2006) Land cover change along the Qinghai-Tibet Highway and Railway from 1981 to 2001. J Geogr Sci 16: 387-395.
6. Du M, Shigeto K, Seiichiro Y, Zhang X, Chen S (2004) Mutual influence between human activities and climate change in the Tibetan Plateau during recent years. Glob Planet Change 41: 241-249.
7. Feng Y, Luo G, Lu L, Zhou D, Han Q, Xu W, Yin C, Zhu L, Dai L, Li Y (2011) Effects of land use change on landscape pattern of the Manas River watershed in Xinjiang, China. Environ Earth Sci. doi: 10. 1007/s12665-011-1029-5.
8. Guan Z, Chen C, Ou Y (1984) Rivers and lakes in Tibet. Science and Technology Press, Beijing (in Chinese).
9. Immerzeel WW, Droogers P, de Jong SM, Bierkens MFP (2009) Large-scale monitoring of snow cover and runoff simulation in Himalayan river basins using remote sensing. Remote Sens Environ 113: 40-49.
10. Immerzeel WW, van Beek LPH, Bierkens MFP (2010) Climate change will affect the Asian water towers. Science 328: 1382-1385.
11. Qiu P, Wu N, Luo P, Wang Z, Li M (2009) Analysis of dynamics and driving factors of wetland landscape in Zoige, eastern Qinghai-Tibetan plateau. J Mount Sci 6: 42-55.
12. Shi Y, Gao X, Zhang D, Giorgi F (2011) Climate change over the Yarlung Zangbo-Brahmaputram River Basin in the 21st century as simulated by a high resolution regional climate model. Quat Int 244: 159-168.
13. Song K, Zhao J, Ouyang W, Zhang X, Hao F (2010) LUCC and landscape pattern variation of wetlands in warm-rainy Southern China over two decades. Proc Environ Sci 2: 1296-1306.
14. Wang X, Zheng D, Shen Y (2008) Land use change and its driving forces on the Tibetan Plateau during 1990-2000. Catena 72: 56-66.
15. Wu Y, Zhu L (2008) The response of lake-glacier variations to climate change in Nam Co catchment, central Tibetan Plateau, during 1970-2000. J Geogr Sci 18: 177-189.
16. Yan Z, Wu N (2005) Rangeland privatization and its impacts on the Zoige wetlands on the eastern Tibetan Plateau. J Mount Sci 2: 105-115.
17. Yang M, Nelson FE, Shiklomanov NI, Guo D, Wan G (2010) Permafrost degradation and its environmental effects on the Tibetan Plateau: a review of recent research. Earth Sci Rev 103: 31-44.
18. Yang M, Wang S, Yao T, Gou X, Lu A, Guo X (2004) Desertification and its relationship with permafrost degradation in Qinghai-Xizang (Tibet) plateau. Cold Regions Sci Technol 39: 47-53.
19. Yang Q, Zheng D (2004) Tibetan geography. China Intercontinental Press, Beijing.
20. Yao T, Li Z, Yang W, Guo X, Zhu L, Kang S, Wu Y, Yu W (2010) Glacial distribution and mass balance in the Yarlung Zangbo River and its influence on lakes. Chin Sci Bull 55: 2072-2078.
21. You Q, Kang S, Wu Y, Yan Y (2007) Climate change over the Yarlung Zangbo River Basin during 1961-2005. J Geogr Sci 17: 409-420.
22. Yu W, Zang S, Wu C, Liu W, Na X (2011) Analyzing and modeling land use land cover change (LUCC) in the Daqing City, China. Appl Geogr 31: 600-608.
23. Zhang X, Yu X, Wu S, Zhang M, Li J (2007) Response of land use/coverage change to hydrological dynamics at watershed scale in the Loess Plateau of China. Acta Ecol Sin 27: 414-421.
24. Zhao Y, Zou X, Cheng H, Jia H, Wu Y, Wang G, Zhang C, Gao S (2006) Assessing the ecological security of the Tibetan Plateau: methodology and a case study for Lhaze County. J Environ Manage 80: 120-131.
25. Zhou P, Liu GB (2009) The change in values for ecological footprint indices following land-use change in a Loess Plateau watershed in China. Environ Earth Sci 59: 529-536.