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From my first blog post, I decided to pursue the question on whether vegetation has any variation between the lower and higher elevations of the park. I went online to the TRU library database to find papers that show studies of vegetation differences between elevation. I found many that focused just on low or just on high elevation. Although it was done in parts of Asia, I found a interesting research paper that compares vegetation through many different elevation levels. “Elevation-Dependent Vegetation Greening of the Yarlung Zangbo River Basin in the Southern Tibetan Plateau, 1999–2013″ can be found here: http://www.mdpi.com/2072-4292/7/12/15844/htm
This paper falls into the category of Academic peer-reviewed research material for many reasons. First off, it has been peer reviewed and we know that because it gives us the date is was received, accepted and published. We know it is research material (not just review material) because they discuss all of their methods and results as well in the paper.
