Trophic Dilution of Short-Chain Chlorinated Paraffins in a Plant–Plateau Pika–Eagle Food Chain from the Tibetan Plateau

2019 ◽  
Vol 53 (16) ◽  
pp. 9472-9480 ◽  
Author(s):  
Huijuan Li ◽  
Duo Bu ◽  
Jianjie Fu ◽  
Yan Gao ◽  
Zhiyuan Cong ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Tibetan Plateau ◽  
Food Chain ◽  
Short Chain ◽  
The Tibetan Plateau ◽  
Plateau Pika ◽  
Chlorinated Paraffins

Short-chain chlorinated paraffins in soils indicate landfills as local sources in the Tibetan Plateau

Chemosphere ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 263 ◽  
pp. 128341
Author(s):  
Jun Li ◽  
Liang Xu ◽  
Yihui Zhou ◽  
Ge Yin ◽  
Yan Wu ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Tibetan Plateau ◽  
Short Chain ◽  
The Tibetan Plateau ◽  
Chlorinated Paraffins ◽  
Local Sources

Effects of plateau pika activities on seasonal plant biomass and soil properties in the alpine meadow ecosystems of the Tibetan Plateau

2015 ◽  
Vol 61 (4) ◽  
pp. 195-203 ◽  
Author(s):  
Feida Sun ◽  
Wenye Chen ◽  
Lin Liu ◽  
Wei Liu ◽  
Yimin Cai ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Tibetan Plateau ◽  
Soil Properties ◽  
Alpine Meadow ◽  
Plant Biomass ◽  
The Tibetan Plateau ◽  
Plateau Pika

scholarly journals Pests, keystone species, and hungry ghosts: the Gesar epic and human-pika relations on the Tibetan Plateau

2020 ◽  
pp. 147447402096314
Author(s):  
Emily T. Yeh ◽  
Gaerrang
Keyword(s):  
Tibetan Plateau ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Keystone Species ◽  
Chinese Government ◽  
The Tibetan Plateau ◽  
Grassland Degradation ◽  
Plateau Pika ◽  
Political Ontology ◽  
The Earth ◽  
Asymmetric Power

For over half a century, the Chinese government has carried out large-scale poisoning campaigns on the Tibetan Plateau in an effort to exterminate the plateau pika, which is viewed as a pest that competes with livestock and causes grassland degradation. Since the 1990s, an ecological counternarrative has emerged in which pikas are keystone species rather than pests, and indicators rather than prime causes of grassland degradation. Virtually ignored in this debate are the ways in which Tibetan pastoralists understand and relate to pikas. We investigate Tibetan analytics of what pikas are, and what draws them to specific sites, based on interviews and observations in two pastoral communities, as well as readings of the Epic of King Gesar. Performed by bards since the twelfth century, the epic is grounded in the cultural milieu of Tibetan nomadic society and continues to be an important part of everyday life. As such, it shapes Tibetan analytics, a term we use to refer to forms of reason that cannot be reduced to ‘cultural belief.’ Because large numbers of pikas, as hungry ghosts, are drawn to places where the essence or fertility of the earth has been depleted, causing irritation to territorial deities, Tibetan practices include rituals to feed hungry ghosts, appease territorial deities, and return treasures to restore the fertility of the earth. Bringing Tibetan analytics together with proposals for political ontology, the article examines the ways in which these different ontologies, or practices of worlding, cooperate and conflict in a context of asymmetric power relations and non-liberal recognition of difference. This approach takes seriously both the agency of the nonhuman as well as human difference, while rejecting notions of rigidly bounded ontologies.

Life history of the plateau pika (Ochotona curzoniae) in alpine meadows of the Tibetan Plateau

2013 ◽  
Vol 78 (1) ◽  
pp. 68-72 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jiapeng Qu ◽  
Wenjing Li ◽  
Min Yang ◽  
Weihong Ji ◽  
Yanming Zhang
Keyword(s):  
Life History ◽  
Tibetan Plateau ◽  
The Tibetan Plateau ◽  
Plateau Pika ◽  
Alpine Meadows ◽  
Ochotona Curzoniae ◽  
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