“…Similarly, the peak peatland initiation and peat C sequestration occurred at the Holocene Thermal Maximum (HTM) period in Zoige (Fig. 6), in line with the previous study (Sun et al, 1998;Wang et al, 2014;Zhao et al, 2014). Also, a study indicated that warming in recent decades increased the height, coverage and corresponding aboveground biomass of vegetation on the QTP (Zhou et al, 2000).…”