Changes in plant diversity on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau since the Anthropocene

Highlights • Since the Anthropocene, both climate change and human activities have exerted increasingly profound impacts on QTP plant diversity.• This special section compiles research and reviews on changes in plant diversity across the QTP during the Anthropocene.

• Publication year

  2025

• Venue

  Plant Diversity

• Publication date

  2025-11-01

• Fields of study

  Medicine, Environmental Science

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.1016/j.pld.2025.11.003PMID 41541257PMCID 12800753
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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