Acknowledgements
We thank Jinlei Kai and Magnus Ole Asmussen for help during fieldwork,
and Philipp Hoelzmann for water chemistry analysis. We are indebted to
the team of the NAMORS station of the Institute of Tibetan Plateau
Research of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, in particular Guangjian Wu,
and to the entire team of the International Research Training Group
“Geoecosystems in transition on the Tibetan Plateau” (TransTiP),
funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG-GRK 2309), for
logistic support and fruitful discussion.