Tibetan Plateau

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Tibetan Plateau

A vast upland region of central Asia north of the Himalaya Mountains and south of the Taklamakan Desert.
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The Tibetan Empire was the only unified and powerful empire that ruled an area considerably larger than the Tibetan Plateau from the 7th to 9th centuries AD.
Seroprevalence and risk factors of bluetongue virus infection in Tibetan sheep and yaks in Tibetan Plateau, China.
Hongyuan of China, is a plateau area located in the east of China Tibetan plateau. The current research was to explore the infection rate of BVDV in yaks in Hongyuan, which may provide a foundation for the execution of control strategies against BVDV infection in this area and elsewhere.
With these water-diverting projects increasingly focused on international, rather than internal, rivers -- in particular those in the Tibetan Plateau, which covers nearly three-quarters of the Himalayan glacier area -- the environmental threat extends far beyond China's borders.
Taoping announced that it has entered into a contract for the sales of 5,000 cloud-based elevator ad terminals to be installed in office buildings and residential communities throughout Sichuan, a province in southwest China occupying most of the Sichuan Basin and the easternmost part of the Tibetan Plateau and is the home of giant pandas.
Besides, foreign speaker Prof Dr Weiqiang Ma, Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research (ITP), CAS in his video lecture, shared ITP contributions in monitoring long term climate change impacts on Tibetan Plateau under Third Pole Environment (TPE) programme.
The Tibetan plateau - often referred to as Asia's water tower - is known for its underground water reservoirs and glaciers, which serve as the source of most of the continent's biggest rivers, namely the Yangtze, Yellow, Mekong, Brahmaputra and Salween rivers.
With color photos on every page and b&w illustrations and floor plans, this book highlights the building styles, culture, and vernacular architecture of homes of the Himalayas and Tibetan plateau. The book begins with an introduction on Tibetan culture, the climate and geographical features of the region, and the areaAEs political and cultural history.
In the article titled "Origin of Boron and Brine Evolution in Saline Springs in the Nangqen Basin, Southern Tibetan Plateau" [1], there was an error in the order of the second and third affiliations.
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