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Wood Microsites at Timberline-Alpine Meadow Borders: Implications for Conifer Seedling Regeneration and Alpine Meadow Conifer Invasion

Northwest Science, 2013
Abstract The importance of climate warming on forests is recognized worldwide and has increased attention on the significance of both timberline advance and alpine meadow invasion by forests. Successful seedling regeneration in alpine meadows depends on availability of suitable substrates, or microsites, for seedling establishment.
Johnson, Adelaide C., Yeakley, J. Alan
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Determinants of plant species richness in an alpine meadow [PDF]

Journal of Ecology, 2007
1.Nutrient availability, defoliation and soil disturbance are important factors that influence the richness of plant communities.
J OLOFSSON, H SHAMS
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Major Type of Mattic-Epipedon Ruptures in Alpine Meadow Ecosystems on the Qinghai–Tibet Plateau

Ecosystem Health and Sustainability, 2023
Alpine meadow degradation is an important issue for ecosystem stability in the Qinghai–Tibet Plateau (QTP). As an essential part of alpine meadow ecosystems, mattic epipedon (ME) refers to the soil surface horizons rich in organic matter and roots, which
De-Yang Guan, Xiao-Dong Cao, Yu-Hang Cheng, Qiu-Bing Wang, Hua-Lei Li, Yun-Zhi Wang, Zhuo-Dong Jiang, Fu-Jun Sun   +7 more
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The Great Caucasus alpine belt syntaxonomy. Alpine meadows with restricted distribution

Vegetation of Russia, 2001
Alpine meadows with prevalence of perennial herbs and grasses and alpine fruticose-lichen heaths are widespread within the Great Caucasus alpine belt, 2400—3200 m above the sea level. The association Hedysaro hedysaroidis—Campanuletum collinae is met in the Western and Central Caucasus.
K. O. Korotkov, E. A. Belonovskaya
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Quantifying the Controls on Evapotranspiration Partitioning in the Highest Alpine Meadow Ecosystem [PDF]

Water Resources Research, 2020
AbstractQuantifying the transpiration fraction of evapotranspiration (T/ET) is crucial for understanding plant functionality in ecosystem water cycles, land‐atmosphere interactions, and the global water budget. However, the controls and mechanisms underlying the temporal change of T/ET remain poorly understood in arid and semiarid areas, especially for
Jiangpeng Cui, Lide Tian, Zhongwang Wei, Chris Huntingford, Pei Wang, Zhongyin Cai, Ning Ma, Lixin Wang   +7 more
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Growing-season carbon budget of alpine meadow ecosystem in the Qinghai Lake Basin: a continued carbon sink through this century according to the Biome-BGC model

Carbon Balance and Management, 2023
Background The alpine meadow is one of the most important ecosystems in the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau (QTP), and critically sensitive to climate change and human activities.
Meng-ya Zhang, Yu-jun Ma, Peng Chen, Fang-zhong Shi, Jun-qi Wei   +4 more
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Effects of alpine meadow degradation on soil nematode diversity and community composition on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau

Ecological Indicators
Soil nematodes play a critical role in maintaining ecosystem services; however, their community dynamics in response to alpine meadow degradation remain poorly understood.
Mingyang Zhang, Yu Sun, Yongsheng Yang, Li Zhang, Zhenhua Zhang, Jing Zhao, Longfei Chen, Huakun Zhou   +7 more
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Divergent Climate Sensitivities of the Alpine Grasslands to Early Growing Season Precipitation on the Tibetan Plateau

Remote Sensing, 2022
Warming is expected to intensify hydrological processes and reshape precipitation regimes, which is closely related to water availability for terrestrial ecosystems.
Zhipeng Wang, Xianzhou Zhang, Ben Niu, Yunpu Zheng, Yongtao He, Yanan Cao, Yunfei Feng, Jianshuang Wu   +7 more
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Differentiation in the Underground Bud-Bank Structure of Poa pratensis Across Contrasting Alpine Grassland Habitats on the Eastern Qinghai–Tibetan Plateau

Plants
Underground bud banks play a critical role in vegetative regeneration of alpine grassland plants, but how species-level underground regenerative structures vary across contrasting habitats remains unclear.
Xiaoli Wang, Qian Wang, Hang Xu, Jiyun Li, Lili He, Zhenggang Guo, Xiaoxing Wei   +6 more
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Grazing intensifies degradation of a Tibetan Plateau alpine meadow through plant-pest interaction

, 2015
Understanding the plant-pest interaction under warming with grazing conditions is critical to predict the response of alpine meadow to future climate change.
Wang, Shiping, Zhang, Zhenhua, Ge, Shidong, Zhao, Xinquan, Cao, Hui, Zhao, Liang, Duan, Jichuang, Zhao, XQ (reprint author), Chinese Acad Sci, Northwest Inst Plateau Biol, Key Lab Adaptat & Evolut Plateau Biota, Xining 810008, Peoples R China., Zhu, Xiaoxue   +8 more
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