The Hengduan Mountains is located in the southeastern part of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, and its topography is extremely complex. Terrain factors were considered in the analysis of the treeline formation mechanism, and digital elevation data with 12.5-m resolution was used.2 The surface tools in ArcGIS were used to extract aspect and slope data.
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