J Plant Ecol ›› 2026, Vol. 19 ›› Issue (1): rtaf139.DOI: 10.1093/jpe/rtaf139

• Perspective •    

Human-accelerated Holocene vegetation change is greater than expected on the Tibetan Plateau

Peng-Chao Zhang1,2, Tao Wang1,*, Xian-Yong Cao1, Yue-Heng Jin3, Yi Luo1,4 and Xiao-Yi Wang1   

  1. 1State Key Laboratory of Tibetan Plateau Earth System, Environment and Resources (TPESER), Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China, 2College of Ecology, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou 730000, China, 3College of Atmospheric Sciences, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou 730000, China, 4University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China

    *Corresponding author. E-mail: twang@itpcas.ac.cn

  • Received:2025-04-10 Accepted:2025-08-21 Online:2025-08-25 Published:2026-02-01
  • Supported by:
    This study was supported by grants from the National Key Research and Development Project of China (2024YFF0809104), the National Natural Science Foundation of China (42425106).