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Data set for analyzing livestock snow disasters in the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau.

ABSTRACT: This data set contains a small sample data of livestock snow disasters in the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau, including historical loss, snow hazard measures, during disaster temperature and wind speed, and pre-disaster summer vegetation condition. This data set can be used to test/verify the method used in the method in the corresponding article published in Stoten, entitled "Linking livestock snow disaster mortality and environmental stressors in the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau: quantification based on generalized additive models" (Y. Li et al. 2018). The data is supplied as a supplementary file attached in the research article.

SUBMITTER: Ye T

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6660580 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Data set for analyzing livestock snow disasters in the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau.

Ye Tao T Li Yijia Y Liu Weihang W Gao Yu Y

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This data set contains a small sample data of livestock snow disasters in the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau, including historical loss, snow hazard measures, during disaster temperature and wind speed, and pre-disaster summer vegetation condition. This data set can be used to test/verify the method used in the method in the corresponding article published in Stoten, entitled "Linking livestock snow disaster mortality and environmental stressors in the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau: quantification based on g ...[more]

PMID: 31372454

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Data set for analyzing livestock snow disasters in the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau.

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Data set for analyzing livestock snow disasters in the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau.

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