#kobresia

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Biosphere - Kobresia

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Paper on Kobresia pastures of Tibet

It has been a while since I worked on biosphere atmosphere interactions on the Tibetan Plateau as part of TIP. It was a real pleasure doing a PhD in such an interdisciplinary project, that included ecology, hydrology, atmospheric sciences, and so much more.

A few days ago, a review paper on the Tibetan Kobresia pygmaea ecosystem was published. I contributed some information on the ecosystems impact on land-atmosphere interactions and surface energy balance.

Citation:  Miehe, G., Schleuss, P.-M., Seeber, E., Babel, W., Biermann, T., Braendle, M., Chen, F., Coners, H., Foken, T., Gerken, T., Graf, H.-F., Guggenberger, G., Hafner, S., Holzapfel, M., Ingrisch, J., Kuzyakov, Y., Lai, Z., Lehnert, L., Leuschner, C., Li, X., Liu, J., Liu, S., Ma, Y., Miehe, S., Mosbrugger, V., Noltie, H.J., Schmidt, J., Spielvogel, S., Unteregelsbacher, S., Wang, Y., Willinghöfer, S., Xu, X., Yang, Y., Zhang, S., Opgenoorth, L., Wesche, K., 2019. The Kobresia pygmaea ecosystem of the Tibetan highlands – Origin, functioning and degradation of the world’s largest pastoral alpine ecosystem: Kobresia pastures of Tibet. Science of The Total Environment 648, 754–771. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2018.08.164 (open access)  

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Biosphere - “Kobresia” from Substrata (1997)

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Biosphere - Kobresia  1996

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