Management and restoration of degradation vegetation on the Tibetan Plateau

Ecosystem on the Tibetan Plateau is very sensitive and fragile to any disturbance due to its high altitude, cold and arid climate conditions. Recently, the influence of increasing human activity including engineering projects and overgrazing on ecosystem stability become more and more prominent, which was mainly characterized by vegetation degradation, soil deterioration and the aggravation of soil erosion. Many protection and vegetation restoration measures have been applied to prevent further environmental deterioration and negative impacts caused by human activity on ecosystems to date. Taking two typical vegetation recovery practices (i.e., QinghaiTibetan railway engineering and Black Soil degraded pasture) for example, the present paper reviewed experience of vegetation recovery on the Tibetan Plateau, and presented basical principles and notices, which will guide the implement of vegetation recovery to engineering disturbance and pasture degradation on the Tibetan Plateau.