Precipitation is a crucial driver for many environmental processes and exhibits a high spatiotemporal variability. The traditional, widely-used point-scale measurements by rain gauges are not able to detect the spatial ...

Land degradation is one of the main drivers of decline in biodiversity, ecosystem condition and services. Agricultural expansion is the main form of land-use change and causes adverse effects on forests, wetlands, grasslands ...

With 450,000 km2 Kobresia (syn. Carex) pygmaea dominated pastures in the eastern Tibetan highlands are the world's largest pastoral alpine ecosystem forming a durable turf cover at 3000–6000 m a.s.l. Kobresia's resilience ...