Overwhelming impact of climate change rather than humans on long-term vegetation change on the Tibetan Plateau


Ji-Feng Zhang1, Xianyong Cao1, Juzhi Hou2, Zicheng Yu3 and Fahu Chen4, (1)ITP Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China, (2)Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China, (3)Lehigh University, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Bethlehem, PA, United States, (4)Alpine Paleoecology and Human Adaptation Group (ALPHA), Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China