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Migration of vegetation boundary between alpine steppe and meadow on a century-scale across the Tibetan Plateau

Ecological Indicators, 2022
The distribution of alpine vegetation is highly sensitive to climate change, which attracted the attention of climate scientists as well as ecologists.
Yi Wang, Jian Sun, Wen He, Chongchong Ye, Biying Liu, Youchao Chen, Tao Zeng, Shaoxiu Ma, Xiaoyu Gan, Chiyuan Miao, Huakun Zhou, Atsushi Tsunekawa   +11 more
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How does grazing exclusion influence plant productivity and community structure in alpine grasslands of the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau?

Global Ecology and Conservation, 2020
Grazing exclusion by fencing is a commonly used management practice for restoring the degraded alpine grasslands on the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau (QTP).
Xiang Liu, Zhiwen Ma, Xiaotao Huang, Lanhai Li   +3 more
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SIVIM Alpine – Database of high-mountain grasslands in the Iberian Peninsula [PDF]

Vegetation Classification and Survey, 2020
SIVIM Alpine (GIVD ID: EU-00-034) is a thematic database focused on vegetation plots from alpine grasslands of the Iberian Peninsula. The main aim of the database is to centralize historical and new vegetation plots of grassland-like communities above the treeline from Spanish mountains, the Pyrenees (including France and Andorra) and Serra da Estrela (
Borja Jiménez-Alfaro, Xavier Font
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Alpine steppe vegetation communities are more sensitive to plateau pika disturbance than alpine meadows

Frontiers in Plant Science
IntroductionSmall herbivores are important biological factors affecting plant productivity and species richness in the grassland ecosystem of the Tibetan Plateau.
Rui Hua, Peng Zhang, Liqing Wang, Miaomiao Huang, Limin Hua, Jianwei Zhou   +5 more
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Soil Bacterial Communities and Diversity in Alpine Grasslands on the Tibetan Plateau Based on 16S rRNA Gene Sequencing

Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2021
The Tibetan Plateau, widely known as the world’s “Third Pole,” has gained extensive attention due to its susceptibility to climate change. Alpine grasslands are the dominant ecosystem on the Tibetan Plateau, albeit little is known about the microbial ...
Hongmao Jiang, Hongmao Jiang, Youchao Chen, Yang Hu, Yang Hu, Ziwei Wang, Ziwei Wang, Xuyang Lu   +7 more
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Response of forage nutrient storages to grazing in alpine grasslands

Frontiers in Plant Science, 2022
Forage nutrient storages can determine livestock size and husbandry development. There is insufficient research on the response of forage nutrient storages to grazing and related driving mechanisms in alpine grasslands, especially on the Tibetan Plateau.
Xinjie Zha, Yimei Tian, Ouzhu, Gang Fu
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Post‐glacial determinants of regional species pools in alpine grasslands

Global Ecology and Biogeography, 2021
AbstractAimAlpine habitats support unique biodiversity confined to high‐elevation areas in the current interglacial. Plant diversity in these habitats may respond to area, environment, connectivity and isolation, yet these factors have been rarely evaluated in concert.
Borja Jiménez‐Alfaro, Sylvain Abdulhak, Fabio Attorre, Ariel Bergamini, Maria Laura Carranza, Alessandro Chiarucci, Renata Ćušterevska, Stefan Dullinger, Rosario G. Gavilán, Gianpietro Giusso del Galdo, Nevena Kuzmanović, Paola Laiolo, Javier Loidi, George P. Malanson, Corrado Marcenó, Đorđije Milanović, Elizabeth R. Pansing, José V. Roces‐Díaz, Eszter Ruprecht, Jozef Šibik, Angela Stanisci, Riccardo Testolin, Jean‐Paul Theurillat, Kiril Vassilev, Wolfgang Willner, Manuela Winkler   +25 more
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Optimal Grazing Exclusion Duration to Enhance Soil Carbon Sequestration in Degraded Grasslands

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
Across China, grazing exclusion reaches the national mean soil organic carbon recovery benchmark sooner in high‐MAP regions (> 500 mm), but recovery is much slower where MAP < 300 mm. Scaling this strategy to 70% of China's degraded grasslands would sequester about 1.52 Pg of soil carbon over 10 years—roughly 17% of annual global fossil‐fuel emissions.
Bin Zhang, Chongzhi Sun, Dongmei Xue, Paul Christiaan Struik, Tongrui Zhang, Jiayue Liu, Tingting Xing, Ziyang Liu, Shiming Tang, Ke Jin   +9 more
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Seasonal drivers of plant–soil–microbial community structure and functions in Western Himalayan grasslands, Pakistan

Grassland Research, EarlyView.
Plant species richness was greater in summer in both alpine and subalpine grassland ecosystems. Soil moisture demonstrates significant positive correlations with soil organic carbon and total nitrogen across seasonal periods. Microbial α‐diversity peaks during summer but maintains functional stability across seasons.
Huma Ali, Muhammad Rafiq, Allan Degen, Ben Sparrow, Zhanhuan Shang   +4 more
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Quantitative Assessment of the Impact of Physical and Anthropogenic Factors on Vegetation Spatial-Temporal Variation in Northern Tibet

Remote Sensing, 2019
The alpine grassland on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau covers an area of about 1/3 of China’s total grassland area and plays a crucial role in regulating grassland ecological functions.
Qinwei Ran, Yanbin Hao, Anquan Xia, Wenjun Liu, Ronghai Hu, Xiaoyong Cui, Kai Xue, Xiaoning Song, Cong Xu, Boyang Ding, Yanfen Wang   +10 more
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