Comprehensive analysis of grazing intensity impacts alpine grasslands across the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau: A meta-analysis [PDF]
Frontiers in Plant Science, 2023 Livestock grazing is a dominant practice in alpine grasslands and plays a crucial role in the ecosystem service of the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau. The effects of grazing on alpine grasslands highly depends on grazing intensity.
Zhenchao Zhang +7 more
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Impacts of management practices on soil organic carbon in degraded alpine meadows on the Tibetan Plateau [PDF]
Biogeosciences, 2014 Grassland soil organic carbon (SOC) is sensitive to anthropogenic activities. Increased anthropogenic disturbance related to overgrazing has led to widespread alpine grassland degradation on the Tibetan Plateau.
X. F. Chang +6 more
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Increasing connections among temporal invariability, resistance and resilience of alpine grasslands on the Tibetan Plateau [PDF]
Frontiers in Plant Science, 2022 Ecological stability contains multiple components, such as temporal invariability, resistance and resilience. Understanding the response of stability components to perturbations is beneficial for optimizing the management of biodiversity and ecosystem ...
Yuting Yang +5 more
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Response of forage nutrient storages to grazing in alpine grasslands. [PDF]
Front Plant Sci, 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.
Zha X, Tian Y, Ouzhu, Fu G.
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Assessment of the vulnerability of alpine grasslands on the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau [PDF]
PeerJ, 2020 Assessing ecosystem vulnerability to climate change is critical for sustainable and adaptive ecosystem management. Alpine grasslands on the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau are considered to be vulnerable to climate change, yet the ecosystem tends to maintain ...
Meng Li +4 more
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Snowbeds are more affected than other subalpine–alpine plant communities by climate change in the Swiss Alps [PDF]
Ecology and Evolution, 2016 While the upward shift of plant species has been observed on many alpine and nival summits, the reaction of the subalpine and lower alpine plant communities to the current warming and lower snow precipitation has been little investigated so far.
Magalì Matteodo +3 more
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Vegetation traits of pre-Alpine grasslands in southern Germany. [PDF]
Sci Data, 2020 AbstractThe data set contains information on aboveground vegetation traits of > 100 georeferenced locations within ten temperate pre-Alpine grassland plots in southern Germany. The grasslands were sampled in April 2018 for the following traits: bulk canopy height; weight of fresh and dry biomass; dry weight percentage of the plant functional types ...
Schucknecht A +7 more
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Climate overrides fencing and soil mineral nutrients to affect plant diversity and biomass of alpine grasslands across North Tibet [PDF]
Frontiers in Plant Science, 2022 IntroductionOvergrazing and warming are thought to be responsible for the loss of species diversity, declined ecosystem productivity and soil nutrient availability of degraded grasslands on the Tibetan Plateau.
Chenrui Guo +10 more
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Ecological Indicators, 2023 Water use efficiency (WUE) is an important indicator in linking the carbon and water cycles of ecosystems. Previous studies performed in alpine and cold regions have contributed greatly to understanding the WUE response of single ecosystem or specific ...
Danni Yan +9 more
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GrassPlot v. 2.00 : first update on the database of multi-scale plant diversity in Palaearctic grasslands [PDF]
, 2019 GrassPlot is a collaborative vegetation-plot database organised by the Eurasian Dry Grassland Group (EDGG) and listed in the Global Index of Vegetation-Plot Databases (GIVD ID EU-00-003). Following a previous Long Database Report (Dengler et al.
Babbi, Manuel +9 more
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