Co-Management Processes to Maintain Livestock Mobility and Biodiversity in Alpine Rangelands of the Tibetan Plateau

Abstract

The Tibetan Plateau is an uplifted geographical region that is encircled by the western Karakorum massif, the northern Kunlun mountains, the southern Himalayas, and a multitude of deeply incised mountain ranges that drain the Plateau to the east (Gurung 1999). The plateau is primarily located in western China (Tibetan Autonomous Region, Qinghai, Gansu, Sichuan and Yunnan Provinces), but also extends into parts of northern Pakistan, northwest and northeast India, northern Nepal and northern Bhutan. [...]