(Table 1) Granulometry, soil pH, carbonate content and color description of soil profiles obtained in Xinghai, Tibet

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Large parts of the eastern half of the Tibetan Plateau are covered between (3,500) 4,000 and nearly 6,000 m a.s.l. by alpine sedge mats (key species Kobresia pygmea), which attain an extension of ca. 450,000 km**2. It is considered to be the world's largest alpine ecosystem. Moreover, there exist isolated (relic) forests in the same area up to an altitude of 4,700 m a.s.l. mainly consisting of juniper (Juniperus) and spruce (Picea). Large parts of the Kobresia ecosystem are expected to be a grazing-resistant replacement formation, replacing forests and grass-dominated plant communities due to human and/or climatic impact. Recently, a research project was launched to increase knowledge about the properties and genesis of these forests and sedge mats (Present-day dynamics and Holocene landscape history of fragmented forest biocoenoses in Tibet; headed by G. Miehe, Marburg).

Supplement to: Kaiser, Knut (2004): Pedogeomorphological transect studies in Tibet: implications for landscape history and present-day dynamics. Prace Geograficzne, 200, 147-165

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DOI https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.787107
Metadata Access https://ws.pangaea.de/oai/provider?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=datacite4&identifier=oai:pangaea.de:doi:10.1594/PANGAEA.787107
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Creator Kaiser, Knut ORCID logo
Publisher PANGAEA
Publication Year 2004
Rights Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/
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Language English
Resource Type Supplementary Dataset; Dataset
Format text/tab-separated-values
Size 310 data points
Discipline Earth System Research
Spatial Coverage (99.761W, 35.471S, 99.975E, 35.601N); Tibet
Temporal Coverage Begin 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z
Temporal Coverage End 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z