Unexpected climate impacts on the Tibetan Plateau: LOCAL and scientific knowledge in findings of delayed summer

Global Environmental Change

Volumn 28, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 141-152

  Klein, Julia A ^a   Hopping, Kelly A ^a   Yeh, Emily T ^b   Nyima, Yonten ^c   Boone, Randall B ^a   Galvin, Kathleen A ^a  

^a Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^c SICHUAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Climate change; Local ecological knowledge; Pastoralism; Phenology; Tibetan Plateau

Indexed keywords

BIOPHYSICS; CLIMATE EFFECT; CLIMATE MODELING; ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION; LIVESTOCK FARMING; METEOROLOGY; REGIONAL CLIMATE; SUMMER; CLIMATE CHANGE; DAIRY FARMING; LAND USE CHANGE; PASTORALISM; PHENOLOGY; POLICY MAKING; SEASONALITY; TRADITIONAL KNOWLEDGE; WARMING;

CHINA; QINGHAI-XIZANG PLATEAU;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 84922363248     PISSN: 09593780     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2014.03.007     Document Type: Article

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