Study: One-third of Tibetan Plateau’s exceptionally rare plants are unique

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(TibetanReview.net, Feb28’25) – The Tibetan Plateau, known as the “Roof of the World” and the “Third Pole of the Earth”, hosts exceptionally rare plants, with over one-third of them found nowhere else on Earth, reported China’s official chinadaily.com.cn Feb 25, citing Chinese scientists.

“This makes it a global biodiversity hot spot,” Wang Tao, a professor at the Chinese Academy of Sciences’ Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research and the lead author of a related study published recently in the journal Nature Communications, has said.

“For decades, scientists have tried to understand how these mountain-specific plants developed th...

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