Thanks to nine research staff’s forty-plus-day alpine field work during July and August, 2005, scientific equipment got fixed up, fences got built and selected sampling plantations and soil got carefully investigated and measured in the space for alpine forest line observation in Linzhi Observation Station for Mountainous Ecological Environment (LOSMEE), which began its normal operation in early the August, and welcomed a group of German scientists led by Prof E-D Schulze from Max-Planck-Institute for Biogeochemistry.

Space for alpine forest line observation in the LOSMEE, situated in Seqila Natural Preservation Region, consists of two plots of observation parts respectively on the north and south slopes. Four automatic observation systems have been set up in and outside the forest, aiming to study the dendrometer of trees in a mobile monitoring way and its relevant meteorological factors, radioactive/thermometer mass balance, etc.

Once completed, the LOSMEE will closely follow the modern variation process of alpine forest/tree lines and ice and snow lines in a long term, so as to confirm or add to plateau paleao-environmental evolution record, and to recover the formation mechanism of alpine forest line, together with its response to global climate changes.