Publisher : Springer, Boston, MA - Conserving Biodiversity in Arid Regions
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Publication year : 0
Thematic : Protected Area Management
Language : English
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The Tibetan Plateau is an uplifted geographical region that is encircled by the western Karakorum massif, the northern Kunlun mountains, the southern Himalayas, and a multitude of deeply incised mountain ranges that drain the Plateau to the east (Gurung 1999). The plateau is primarily located in western China (Tibetan Autonomous Region, Qinghai, Gansu, Sichuan and Yunnan Provinces), but also extends into parts of northern Pakistan, northwest and northeast India, northern Nepal and northern Bhutan. Encompassing about 1.65 million sq. km. and with an average elevation exceeding 4000m, it is the world ’s highest, and certainly one of the most important rangeland landscapes, possessing distinct cultural and biological resources (Miller in press). Vegetation types range from cold deserts to semiarid steppe and shrub lands to alpine steppe and moist alpine meadows and forests, which support a rich array of unique floral and faunal assemblages. Given its conservation significance as one of the most outstanding and diverse alpine ecosystems, WWF has identified the Tibetan Plateau as a site of “global significance†and nominated it to be one of its Global 200 Ecoregions (Olson and Dinerstein 1998, Sherpa 2000).
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Keywords : sea-turtles
Encoded by : Pauline Carmel Joy Eje
