Research Article
Improving Carbon Mitigation Potential through Grassland Ecosystem Restoration under Climatic Change in Northeastern Tibetan Plateau
Table 2
The area of grassland degradation and its proportion accounted in total grassland in TRSR.
| | Type | 1970s~1990 | 1990~2004 | 2004~2012 | | Area (km2) | Proportion (%) | Area (km2) | Proportion (%) | Area (km2) | Proportion (%) |
| | Light degradation | 53283.17 | 22.88 | 55724.05 | 23.93 | 54948.62 | 23.60 | | Moderate degradation | 22122.16 | 9.50 | 27347.79 | 11.74 | 14874.46 | 6.39 | | Severe degradation | 1039.57 | 0.45 | 1030.82 | 0.44 | 809.95 | 0.35 | | Restoration | 674.65 | 0.29 | 61.59 | 0.03 | 273.49 | |
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