The wide distribution of natural lakes over the Tibetan Plateau, the highest and largest
plateau on Earth, have received extensive attention due to global warming. In this Review …

Context Grasslands provide a variety of ecosystem services (ESs) for humans. While much
ES research has focused on forests and wetlands, synthesizing the currently somewhat …

Climate change and human activities increasingly threaten lakes that store 87% of Earth's
liquid surface fresh water. Yet, recent trends and drivers of lake volume change remain …

Traditional, mainstream definitions of drought describe it as deficit in water‐related variables
or water‐dependent activities (eg, precipitation, soil moisture, surface and groundwater …

The scale of economic growth in China during the past three decades is unprecedented in
modern human history. China is now the world's second largest economic entity, next to the …

Lakes are sensitive indicators of anthropogenic climate change and also respond to direct
human activities. Yet, long-term lake inventories and quantitative evaluation of the factors …

Data and knowledge of the spatial-temporal dynamics of surface water area (SWA) and
terrestrial water storage (TWS) in China are critical for sustainable management of water …

Humans benefit from multiple ecosystem services of wetlands, but massive wetland loss has
occurred worldwide due to rapid urbanization. To assess the problem, it is necessary to …

Abstract The Tibetan Plateau (TP), the highest and largest plateau in the world, with complex
and competing cryospheric‐hydrologic‐geodynamic processes, is particularly sensitive to …

Large-scale and rapid improvement in wastewater treatment is common practice in
developing countries, yet this influence on nutrient regimes in receiving waterbodies is …