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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 ...
Xuyang Lu, Youchao Chen, Hongmao Jiang
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Quantifying the variation in water use efficiency across climates and biomes on the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau

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, Yanzheng Yang, Hongke Hao, Jingyi Zhu, Yudi Fu, Nan Meng, Zuzheng Li, Xuhuan Dai, Ruonan Li, Hua Zheng   +9 more
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Is grazing exclusion effective in restoring vegetation in degraded alpine grasslands in Tibet, China? [PDF]

PeerJ, 2015
Overgrazing is considered one of the key disturbance factors that results in alpine grassland degradation in Tibet. Grazing exclusion by fencing has been widely used as an approach to restore degraded grasslands in Tibet since 2004.
Yan Yan, Xuyang Lu
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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, Xianzhou Zhang, Yongtao He, Ben Niu, Jianshuang Wu   +4 more
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Using the dynamics of productivity and precipitation-use efficiency to detect state transitions in Eurasian grasslands

Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2023
In the face of accelerated global dryland expansion and grassland degradation, signaling grassland ecosystem state transitions is an ongoing challenge in ecology.
Tianyou Zhang, Zhi Chen, Zhi Chen, Zhi Chen, Cuicui Jiao, Weikang Zhang, Lang Han, Zheng Fu, Zhongyi Sun, Zhaogang Liu, Zhaogang Liu, Zhongming Wen, Guirui Yu, Guirui Yu, Guirui Yu   +14 more
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Contrasting response of growing season water use efficiency to precipitation changes between alpine meadows and alpine steppes over the Tibetan Plateau

Agricultural Water Management, 2023
Alpine grasslands are the dominant vegetation of the Tibetan Plateau (TP) and are essential to understanding the mechanism of change in water use efficiency (WUE) in high-cold ecosystems in a changing environment. However, it is still unclear how the WUE
Shan Lin, Genxu Wang, Zhaoyong Hu, Xiangyang Sun, Chunlin Song, Kewei Huang, Juying Sun, Yi Yang   +7 more
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Socio-Environmental Dynamics of Alpine Grasslands, Steppes and Meadows of the Qinghai–Tibetan Plateau, China: A Commentary

Applied Sciences, 2020
Alpine grasslands are a common feature on the extensive (2.6 million km2) Qinghai–Tibet plateau in western and southwestern China. These grasslands are characterized by their ability to thrive at high altitudes and in areas with short growing seasons and
Haiying Feng, Victor R. Squires
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Comprehensive analysis of grazing intensity impacts alpine grasslands across the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau: A meta-analysis

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, Yiran Zhao, Hao Lin, Yanpeng Li, Jinmin Fu, Yingxin Wang, Juan Sun, Yanhua Zhao   +7 more
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Field-based observations of regional-scale, temporal variation in net primary production in Tibetan alpine grasslands [PDF]

Biogeosciences, 2014
Net primary production (NPP) is a fundamental process of natural ecosystems. Temporal variation of NPP not only reflects how communities respond to environmental fluctuations, but it also has important implications for regional carbon assessment ...
Y. Shi, Y. Wang, Y. Ma, W. Ma, C. Liang, D. F. B. Flynn, B. Schmid, J. Fang, J.-S. He   +8 more
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High Below-Ground Productivity Allocation of Alpine Grasslands on the Northern Tibet

Plants, 2019
The allocation of net primary production (NPP) between above- and belowground components is a key step of ecosystem material cycling and energy flows, which determines many critical parameters, e.g., the fraction of below ground NPP (BNPP) to NPP (fBNPP)
Ben Niu, Chaoxu Zeng, Xianzhou Zhang, Yongtao He, Peili Shi, Yuan Tian, Yunfei Feng, Meng Li, Zhipeng Wang, Xiangtao Wang, Yanan Cao   +10 more
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