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Dynamic simulation of management events for assessing impacts of climate change on pre-alpine grassland productivity

, 2021
The productivity of permanent temperate cut grasslands is mainly driven by weather, soil characteristics, botanical composition and management. To adapt management to climate change, adjusting the cutting dates to reflect earlier onset of growth and ...
Semenov, M. A., Calanca, P., Petersen, K., Kraus, David, Butterbach-Bahl, Klaus, Kiese, R., Kraus, D., Petersen, Krischan, Kiese, Ralf, Butterbach-Bahl, K., Calanca, Pierluigi, Semenov, Mikhail A.   +11 more
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Climate Variability Rather Than Livestock Grazing Dominates Changes in Alpine Grassland Productivity Across Tibet [PDF]

, 2021
Alpine grasslands on the Tibetan Plateau, being vulnerable to environmental and anthropogenic changes, have experienced dramatic climate change and intensive livestock grazing during the last half-century. Climate change, coupled with grazing activities,
Wu, Jianshuang, Niu, Ben, He, Yongtao, Li, Meng, Feng, Yunfei, Zhang, Xianzhou   +5 more
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Pre‐industrial land‐use limits contemporary shrub encroachment in the French Alps

Ecography, EarlyView.
Shrub encroachment has become a global phenomenon in recent decades. While global warming in the Arctic is often cited as the primary cause, human‐managed mountain regions have experienced intense historical land‐use that may also play a considerable role.
Baptiste Nicoud, Florian Carrière, Arthur Bayle, Christian Devlieger, Philippe Choler, Christophe Corona, Sandra Lavorel   +6 more
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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
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The ecological effects of slope and aspect in chalk grassland [PDF]

, 2003
The microclimate of plants growing close to the ground is strongly influenced by the orientation of a soil/vegetation surface with respect to the sun's rays (slope and aspect).
Bennie, Jonathan James
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DataSheet_1_Different grassland managements significantly change carbon fluxes in an alpine meadow.docx

, 2022
Alpine meadow plays vital roles in regional animal husbandry and the ecological environment. However, different grassland managements affect the structure and function of the alpine meadow.
Wei Li (7081), Xiaodong Wang (66801), Xiaodong Zhang (183379), Xiaoming Kang (4050382), Yong Li (15029), Shengyi Wu (13951974), Ganjun Xu (13951968), Ao Yang (2387728), Yuechuan Niu (13251873), Enze Kang (13251870), Zhongqing Yan (6204521), Liang Yan (494300), Yongyu Chai (13951971)   +12 more
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Inverse sky islands: lowland river valleys drive microbial divergence while high elevations select for convergence in massive mountain ecosystems

Ecography, EarlyView.
Mountain ecosystems are often interpreted through the lens of the ‘sky island' model, where high‐elevation habitats function as isolated archipelagos. However, this model's applicability to massive, topographically complex mountain ranges where highlands are continuous and lowlands are fragmented remains untested.
Yazhou Zhang, J. Aaron Hogan, Jianjun Wang, Wenguang Sun, Yaojun Ye, Xin Liu, Minshu Song, Hang Sun   +7 more
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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
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Increasing the resilience of the Australian alpine flora to climate change [PDF]

, 2013
 The alpine region around Australia’s highest mountain, Mt Kosciuszko, is part of one of the three most at risk ecosystems in Australia from climate change.
Susanna Venn, Catherine Pickering
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Impact of grassland contract policy on soil organic carbon losses from alpine grassland on the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau

, 2017
Carbon storage in the soils on the Qinghai–Tibetan Plateau plays a very important role in the global carbon budget. In the 1990s, a policy of contracting collective grasslands to smaller units was implemented, resulting in a change from the traditional ...
Zhang, S., W. Zhang, S. Zhang, Deo, R. C., R. C. Deo, Xu, X., J. Zhou, X. Xu, M. Li, Sheng, D., Feng, Q., Gong, Y., Holden, N. M., Zhang, J., Li, M., D. Sheng, Q. Feng, Y. Gong, N. M. Holden, M. Liu, J. Zhang, Adamowski, J. F., Liu, M., Yang, S., J. Cao, Zhou, J., Yeh, E. T., Cao, J., E. T. Yeh, S. Yang, J. F. Adamowski   +30 more
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