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Changes in Temperature Sensitivity and Activation Energy of Soil Organic Matter Decomposition in Different Qinghai-Tibet Plateau Grasslands.

PLoS ONE, 2015
Qinghai-Tibet Plateau grasslands are unique geographical regions and store substantial soil organic matter (SOM) in the soil surface, which make them very sensitive to global climate change.
Jie Li, Nianpeng He, Xuehong Wei, Yang Gao, Yao Zuo   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Maximising trait evenness promotes the recovery of plant species richness in managed grasslands

Ecography, EarlyView.
Land‐use intensification threatens biodiversity, and restoring degraded ecosystems remains challenging due to the difficulty of identifying the rules governing community assembly and dynamics. Investigating the temporal dynamics of trait‐abundance distributions (TADs) along long‐term time series offers a promising approach to disentangle the influence ...
Nathan Rondeau, Yoann Le Bagousse‐Pinguet, Frédérique Louault, Raphael Martin, Pascal Carrère, Katja Klumpp, Pierre Liancourt, Nicolas Gross   +7 more
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Revitalizing the grassland on the Qinghai–Tibetan Plateau

Grassland Research, 2023
Grassland is the largest ecosystem on the Qinghai–Tibetan Plateau (QTP) and provides multiple ecosystem functions and services. Understanding the endowment of the QTP grassland and how to revitalize it have profound implications for the sustainable use ...
Shikui Dong
doaj   +1 more source

Variation in Soil Aggregate Stability Due to Land Use Changes from Alpine Grassland in a High-Altitude Watershed

Land, 2023
Land use change affects soil aggregate composition and stability, which impacts soil structure and health. To reveal how land use change impacted soil aggregates of alpine grassland in a high-altitude watershed, soil samples from 161 sites including ...
Ying Li, Zhanming Ma, Yutao Liu, Zilong Cui, Qiuyu Mo, Can Zhang, Haiyan Sheng, Wen Wang, Yongkun Zhang   +8 more
doaj   +1 more source

Topography constrains the climatic response of treeline migration in Taiwan's subalpine forests

Ecography, EarlyView.
Treelines are moving upslope, but the rates and drivers differ among different regions, globally. Many studies have examined the relationship between treeline movement and climate change, particularly rising temperature, while the role of topographical factors has received much less attention, despite the longstanding recognition of its importance.
Kuan‐Yu Chen, Jonathan Peereman, J. Aaron Hogan, Teng‐Chiu Lin   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Metabolic Characteristics of PGPR-Induced Growth Promotion in Alfalfa (Medicago sativa L.)

Metabolites
Background/Objectives: Plant growth-promoting rhizobacteria (PGPR) have demonstrated potential for enhancing plant growth; existing research inadequately characterizes the metabolic underpinnings of PGPR-induced plant phenotypes.
Rina Dao, Ying Zhang, Qiang Li, Shengyan Lei   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Beyond grassland degradation: Pathways to resilience for pastoralist households in alpine grassland ecosystems

Journal of Environmental Management
Sustaining the development of rural and pastoral communities' hinges on livelihood resilience. Pastoralist household resilience relies on resource availability and decision-making abilities. Despite extensive studies on pastoralist livelihoods, a significant knowledge gap remains in understanding the nuanced adaptive capacities of diverse households ...
Tong Li, Ranjay K. Singh, Lizhen Cui, Rajiv Pandey, Hongdou Liu, Zhihong Xu, Li Tang, Jianqing Du, Xiaoyong Cui, Yanfen Wang   +9 more
openaire   +5 more sources

Faster growing and more functionally diverse: global change alters functional trait composition of mountain plant communities in the European Alps

Ecography, EarlyView.
Understanding how global change reshapes mountain plant communities is essential for predicting biodiversity and ecosystem function in a warming world. Using resurvey data from over 1400 non‐forest vegetation plots across the European Alps, we show that community‐weighted means of key functional traits capturing important dimensions of plant ecological
Sergey Rosbakh, Sabine B. Rumpf, Stefan Dullinger   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Global threats, local opportunities: ice‐related landforms provide refugia for high‐elevation plants and arthropods

Ecography, EarlyView.
Ice‐related landforms in mountain areas have been hypothesized to play a key role in the survival of cold‐adapted species threatened by climate change. However, our understanding of such landforms acting as refugia remains speculative. Here we analyse occurrence data, collected through a standardized sampling at 471 sampling points across the European ...
Mauro Gobbi, Barbara Valle, Mattia Brambilla, Duccio Tampucci, Marco Caccianiga   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Tectono‐Sedimentary Evolution of the Neogene İnegöl Basin (NW Anatolia): Constraints on Transtensional Basin Development at the Junction of the Western Anatolian Extensional Province and the North Anatolian Fault Zone

Geological Journal, EarlyView.
The study outlines the tectono‐sedimentary evolution of the İnegöl Basin in north‐western Anatolia. Basin formation was controlled by interacting extensional and strike‐slip fault systems linked to uplift of the Uludağ Massif. Terrestrial sedimentation from the Miocene to Pleistocene is reconstructed using abundant fossil mammal assemblages that ...
M. Cihat Alçiçek, Volkan Karabacak, Serdar Mayda   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source