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Variations and Mutual Relations of Vegetation–Soil–Microbes of Alpine Meadow in the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau under Degradation and Cultivation

Land, 2022
Artificial cultivation had been applied to recover the meadow suffering from serious degradation in the Qinghai–Tibet Plateau. Studies focusing only on the changes in vegetation, soil and microbes along the meadow degradation were insufficient, and ...
Yueju Zhang, Mingjun Ding, Hua Zhang, Nengyu Wang, Fan Xiao, Ziping Yu, Peng Huang, Fu Zou   +7 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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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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Nitrogen Critical Loads for an Alpine Meadow Ecosystem on the Tibetan Plateau [PDF]

Environmental Management, 2015
Increasing atmospheric nitrogen (N) deposition has the potential to alter plant diversity and thus the function and stability of terrestrial ecosystems. N-limited alpine ecosystems are expected to be particularly susceptible to increasing N deposition. However, little is known about the critical loads and saturation thresholds of ecosystem responses to
Ning, Zong, Peili, Shi, Minghua, Song, Xianzhou, Zhang, Jing, Jiang, Xi, Chai   +5 more
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Influence of alpine meadow deterioration on soil microbial communities in the Yangtze River source region

Frontiers in Environmental Science, 2023
Introduction: Although soil microbial populations are a good predictor of soil texture, little is known about how they react to alpine meadow deterioration.Methods: This study utilized Illumina HiSeq sequencing to investigate the effects of alpine meadow
Wenjuan Zhang
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Effect of microtopography on soil respiration in an alpine meadow of the Qinghai-Tibetan plateau

, 2017
Soil respiration is an important component of terrestrial carbon cycling and is sensitive to environmental change. Most previous studies focus on the effect of soil temperature and moisture on soil respiration, whereas the impact of spatial heterogeneity
Liu, YZ, Mu, JP, Li, GY (reprint author), Chinese Acad Sci, Chengdu Inst Biol, Ecolab, Chengdu 610041, Sichuan, Peoples R China., Smith, NG, Sun, SC, Li, GY   +5 more
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When Nature Counts: Corporate Biodiversity Attention and Access to Bank Finance

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper investigates whether corporate attention to biodiversity influences firms' access to bank loans, an overlooked question in the emerging biodiversity–finance literature. Using a novel, text‐based measure constructed from 446 biodiversity‐related keywords and applied to Chinese A‐share listed firms from 2000 to 2023, we show that ...
Ruxiao Li, Bo Zhang, Zhang‐Hangjian Chen, Hafiz Hoque   +3 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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Plant diversity is closely related to the density of zokor mounds in three alpine rangelands on the Tibetan Plateau [PDF]

PeerJ, 2019
Background Plateau zokor (Myospalax baileyi) is a subterranean rodent endemic to the Tibetan Plateau. This species has been generally viewed as a pest in China due to the competition for food with livestock and also causing soil erosion.
Yujie Niu, Jianwei Zhou, Siwei Yang, Bin Chu, Huimin Zhu, Bo Zhang, Qiangen Fang, Zhuangsheng Tang, Limin Hua   +8 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
wiley   +1 more source