Nature Communications (Aug 2022)

Human expansion into Asian highlands in the 21st Century and its effects

  • Chao Yang,
  • Huizeng Liu,
  • Qingquan Li,
  • Xuqing Wang,
  • Wei Ma,
  • Cuiling Liu,
  • Xu Fang,
  • Yuzhi Tang,
  • Tiezhu Shi,
  • Qibiao Wang,
  • Yue Xu,
  • Jie Zhang,
  • Xuecao Li,
  • Gang Xu,
  • Junyi Chen,
  • Mo Su,
  • Shuying Wang,
  • Jinjing Wu,
  • Leping Huang,
  • Xue Li,
  • Guofeng Wu

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-32648-8
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 13, no. 1
pp. 1 – 12

Abstract

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Most of the intensive human activities usually occur in lowlands. Here the authors report that human activity expansions also were widely distributed in Asian highlands in the 21st century and held dual effects, which provides new insights for regional human activity expansions.