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Short-term effects of experimental trampling on alpine grasslands in Shangri-la, China

Global Ecology and Conservation, 2020
Alpine grasslands provide essential ecosystem functions and services, yet they are increasingly subject to anthropogenic perturbations. Northwest Yunnan (NWY) is one of the most popular tourist destinations in China, and alpine grasslands of NWY are ...
Wei Li, Shuqiang He, Xiping Cheng, Gengxin Zhang   +3 more
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Changes in functional traits and diversity of typical alpine grasslands after a short-term trampling disturbance

Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2023
Alpine grassland ecosystem supports high diversity of terrestrial flora and fauna species. Despite the ecological importance and economic potential of this unique ecosystem type, it experiences increasing anthropogenic disturbances such as trampling ...
Wei Li, Wei Li, Ting Dan Zheng, Xi Ping Cheng, Xi Ping Cheng, Shu Qiang He   +5 more
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Impact of past and present management practices on the land snail community of nutrient-poor calcareous grasslands [PDF]

, 2007
Nutrient-poor, dry calcareous grasslands in Central Europe harbour an extraordinary high diversity of plants and invertebrates. Consequently, they are of high conservation value.
Boschi, Cristina
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Nitrogen economy of alpine plants on the north Tibetan Plateau: Nitrogen conservation by resorption rather than open sources through biological symbiotic fixation

Ecology and Evolution, 2020
Nitrogen (N) is one of the most important factors limiting plant productivity, and N fixation by legume species is an important source of N input into ecosystems.
Ning Zong, Minghua Song, Guangshuai Zhao, Peili Shi   +3 more
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Post-glacial determinants of regional species pools in alpine grasslands [PDF]

, 2021
Aim: Alpine 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
Dullinger S., Marceno C., Stanisci A., Bergamini A., Winkler M., Ruprecht E., Vassilev K., Carranza M. L., Pansing E. R., Attorre F., Willner W., Sibik J., Jimenez-Alfaro B., Abdulhak S., Giusso del Galdo G., Kuzmanovic N., Roces-Diaz J. V., Laiolo P., Chiarucci A., Milanovic D., Testolin R., Malanson G. P., Loidi J., Theurillat J. -P., Gavilan R. G., Custerevska R.   +25 more
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The Restoration Potential of the Grasslands on the Tibetan Plateau

Remote Sensing, 2021
While the alpine grassland ecosystems on the Tibetan Plateau (TP) have generally improved in recent years, some grasslands still suffer from varying degrees of degradation.
Ruijing Wang, Qisheng Feng, Zheren Jin, Tiangang Liang   +3 more
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Different sensitivity and threshold in response to nitrogen addition in four alpine grasslands along a precipitation transect on the Northern Tibetan Plateau

Ecology and Evolution, 2019
The increase in atmospheric nitrogen (N) deposition has resulted in some terrestrial ecological changes. In order to identify the response of sensitive indicators to N input and estimate the sensitivity and saturation thresholds in alpine grasslands, we ...
Ning Zong, Guangshuai Zhao, Peili Shi
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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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Biodiversity and Ecosystem Function under Simulated Gradient Warming and Grazing

Plants, 2022
Biodiversity and ecosystem functions and their relationship with environmental response constitute a major topic of ecological research. However, the changes in and impact mechanisms of multi-dimensional biodiversity and ecosystem functions in ...
Zhonghua Zhang, Li Ma, Xiaoyuan Yang, Qian Zhang, Yandi She, Tao Chang, Hongye Su, Jian Sun, Xinqing Shao, Huakun Zhou, Xinquan Zhao   +10 more
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Precipitation and Minimum Temperature are Primary Climatic Controls of Alpine Grassland Autumn Phenology on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau

Remote Sensing, 2020
Autumn phenology is a crucial indicator for identifying the alpine grassland growing season’s end date on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau (QTP), which intensely controls biogeochemical cycles in this ecosystem.
Shuai An, Xiaoqiu Chen, Xiaoyang Zhang, Weiguang Lang, Shilong Ren, Lin Xu   +5 more
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