Flora, Fauna, and the Environment

Black-neck Crane on the Changtang in Phala

Anderson, D.; Salick, J.; Moseley, R.; and Xiaokun, Ou

Conserving the Sacred Medicine Mountains: A Vegetation Analysis of Tibetan Sacred Sites
     in Northwest Yunnan  (.pdf)
     [Global Change Biology 11(9): 1440-1451]

Foggin, J.M.

Biodiversity Protection and the Search for Sustainability in Tibetan Plateau Grasslands.
[PhD dissertation. Arizona State University, Tempe, USA. 397pp. 2000] 

Building New Partnerships for Conservation and Sustainable Development in the Tibetan Plateau Region: Recent Experiences in the Yangtze River Headwaters. (.pdf)
[Plenary paper: First International Conference on Environment & Development in West China, May 2004]

Highland Encounters: Building New Partnerships for Conservation and Sustainable Development in the Yangtze River Headwaters, heart of the Tibetan Plateau. (.pdf)
[Innovative Communities: People-centered Approaches to Environmental Management in the Asia-Pacific Region. Tokyo, Japan: UNU Press. 360 pp. 2005]

Klein, Julia A.; Harte, J.; and Zhao, X.Q.

Dynamic and Complex Microclimate Responses to Warming and Grazing Manipulations
   [Global Change Biology 11(9): 1440-1451]

Law, Wayne; Salick, Jan

Comparing Conservation Priorities for Useful Plants Among Botonists and Tibetan Doctors  (.pdf)
[Biodivers Conserv  DOI 10.1007/s10531-006-9057-2, April 2006]

Human-induced Dwarwing of Himalayan Snow Lotus, Saussurea laniceps (Asteraceae) (.pdf)
   [PNAS 2005; 102;10218-10220,  July 2005]

Salick, Jan; Yongping, Yang; and Amend, Anthony

Tibetan Land Use and Change Near Khawa Karpo, Eastern Himalayas (.pdf)
   [Economic Botany 59(4).312-325, 2005]

Salick, J.; Byg, A.; Amend, A.; Gunn, B.; Law, W.; and Schmidt, H.

Tibetan Medicine Plurality (.pdf)
[Economic Botany 60(3):227–253, 2006]

Salick, J.; Amend, A.;Anderson, D.; Hoffmeister, K.; Gunn, B.;and Zhendong, F.

Tibetan Sacred Sites Conserve Old Growth Trees and Cover in Eastern Himalayas
   [Global Change Biology 11(9): 1440-1451] 

Winkler, Daniel.

Yartsa Gunbu (Cordyceps sinensis) and the Fungal Commodification of Tibet's Rural Economy
[Economic Botany. 62 (3), November 2008]

The Return of the Cuckoo or Morels in Tibet.
[Mushroom - The Journal of Wild Mushrooming. 87, vol 25.4:5-8]

Cordyceps sinensis (Berk.) Sacc: Economy, Ecology & Ethno-mycology of Yartsa Gunbu, a Medicinal Fungus Endemic to the Tibetan Plateau [Abstract of Presentation]
[International Journal of Medicinal Mushrooms. 7.3: 481-482]

Yartsa Gunbu - Cordyceps sinensis. Economy, Ecology & Ethno-mycology of a Fungus Endemic to the Tibetan Plateau
[A. Boesi & F. Cardi (eds.). Wildlife and plants in traditional and modern Tibet: Conceptions, Exploitation and Conservation. Memorie della Societa Italiana di Scienze Naturali e del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Milano, Vol. 33.1: 69-85]

Matsutake Mycelium Under Attack in Southwest China. How the Mushrooming Trade Mines it's Resorce and How to Achieve Sustainability
[draft, 2004]

Forest Use and Implications of the 1998 Logging Ban in the Tibetan Prefectures of Sichuan: Case Study on Forestry, Reforestation and NTFP in Litang County, Ganzi TAP, China.
[The Ecological Basis and Sustainable Management of Forest Resources (eds. Z. Jiang, M. Centritto, S. Liu, and S. Zhang). Informatore Botanico Italiano 35 (Supplemento 2), 116-125]

Participation in Forestry in Tibetan Southwest China. A Strategy to Resolve Resource Use Conflicts.
[slightly abbreviated version, Mountain Research and Development. 22.4: 397-399]

Major Threats to Tibetan Forest Ecosystems and Strategies for Forest Biodiversity Conservation
[Tibet's Biodiversity - Conservation and Management. WWF China Programme / TAR Forestry Bureau International Workshop, Lhasa, September 1998, China Forestry Publishing House, Beijing, 62-67 (and inside cover photos).]

Patterns of Forest Distribution and the Impact of Fire and Pastoralism in the Forest Region of the Tibetan Plateau
[G. Miehe & Zhang Yili (eds.): Environmental Change in High Asia, Marburger Geogr. Schriften 135, 201-227]

Forestry, Floods, and Hydroelectricity - China's National Natural Forest Protection Project and it's Impact on Tibetan Areas
[Sinosphere Volume 3, Issue 2, published at http://chinaenvironment.net

Deforestation in Eastern Tibet: Human Impact - Past and Present
[G.E. Clarke (ed.) Development, Society and Environment in Tibet, Papers Presented at the Panel of the 7th Seminar Intern. Assoc. for Tibetan Studies (IATS) Graz 1995. Proc. 7th Seminar IATS, vol.5, Vienna, 79-96]

The Forests of the Eastern Part of the Tibetan Plateau. A Case Study from Jiuzhaigou (Zitsa Degu; NNW-Sichuan).
[Plant Research and Development 47/48, Focus: Forest Management and Sustainability, 184-210]

Forests, Forest Economy and Deforestation in the Tibetan Prefectures of West-Sichuan
[Commonwealth Forestry Review 75.4, p. 295-301]

Worthy, F.R. and Foggin, J.M.

Conflicts Between Local Villages and Tibetan Brown Bears (Ursus arctos) Threaten Conservation of Bears in a Remote Region of the Tibetan Plateau. (.pdf)
[Human-Wildlife Conflicts. 2(2): 200-205.]