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Plant communities responding to grazing pressure by sheep in an Alpine meadow

Translational Animal Science, 2020
Abstract The Chinese grassland ecosystem is an important national asset that not only impacts climate regulation, soil and water conservation, wind protection, and soil carbon and nitrogen fixation but is also an important contributor to maintaining grassland biodiversity while supporting livestock production.
Wu, Jianping, Gong, Xuyin, Yao, Xixi, Casper, David P   +3 more
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Faster growing and more functionally diverse: global change alters functional trait composition of mountain plant communities in the European Alps

Ecography, EarlyView.
Understanding how global change reshapes mountain plant communities is essential for predicting biodiversity and ecosystem function in a warming world. Using resurvey data from over 1400 non‐forest vegetation plots across the European Alps, we show that community‐weighted means of key functional traits capturing important dimensions of plant ecological
Sergey Rosbakh, Sabine B. Rumpf, Stefan Dullinger   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Effects of Restoration on Community Biomass and Its Allocation in a Patchy Alpine Meadow

Grasses
The degradation of alpine meadows on the Qinghai–Tibet Plateau has seriously affected the structure and productivity of grassland communities. In this experiment, a sample area was set up in Keqihetan of Zexiong Village, Youganning Town, Henan County ...
Yuting Jin, Changbin Li, Tongtong Deng, Jie Hu, Xilai Li, Yuanwu Yang   +5 more
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Plant community dynamics during the growing season of typical ecosystems on the Tibetan Plateau

Geography and Sustainability, 2020
The relationships between vegetation and environmental factors have always been a core concern of ecologists. The dynamic characteristics of plant communities during the growing season can directly reflect these relationships, so we examined this issue ...
Xiaoxia Chen, Yuqiang Tian, Yong Zhang, Yu Cui, Yan Zhao, Weijian Sun   +5 more
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Response of forage nutrient storages to grazing in alpine grasslands

Frontiers in Plant Science, 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.
Xinjie Zha, Yuan Tian, Ouzhu, Gang Fu
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Using UAVs to assess the relationship between alpine meadow bare patches and disturbance by pikas in the source region of Yellow River on the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau

, 2021
Degradation of the alpine meadow has received increasing attention recently, and plateau pika (Ochotona curzoniae, hereafter pika) disturbance is considered as an important cause.
Jianguo Zhang, Dawei Liu, B. Meng, Jianjun Chen, Xiaoyun Wang, Hui Jiang, Yue Yu, S. Yi   +7 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Independent leaf and root responses to autumn freezing in perennial herbs: Insights from cutting and transplant manipulations

Grassland Research, EarlyView.
In this study, we compared two sampling approaches to assess autumn freezing resistance. Our goal was to determine whether the commonly employed cutting method, which disrupts root‐tissue connectivity, provides a valid measure of true freezing resistance.
Zhengjie Yan, Cheng Chen, Xin Jing, Shuai Ren, Junpeng Rui, Tao Wang, Jin‐Sheng He   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Variation and control of soil organic carbon and other nutrients in permafrost regions on central Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau

Environmental Research Letters, 2014
The variation and control of soil organic carbon (SOC) and other nutrients in permafrost regions are critical for studying the carbon cycle and its potential feedbacks to climate change; however, they are poorly understood.
Wenjie Liu, Shengyun Chen, Qian Zhao, Zhizhong Sun, Jiawen Ren, Dahe Qin   +5 more
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Plant community responses to warming modified by soil moisture in the Tibetan Plateau

Arctic, Antarctic, and Alpine Research, 2020
Predicted warming in Tibetan Plateau may have profound effects on plant community structure and function. We used open-top chambers to artificially warm two different plant communities in Tibet from 2012 to 2016.
Ahui Peng, Kari Klanderud, Genxu Wang, Li Zhang, Yao Xiao, Yan Yang   +5 more
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Insight into influence of roots on hydrothermal properties of alpine meadow in Tibetan Plateau

Frontiers in Environmental Science, 2023
The physical and mechanical behavior of alpine meadow in Tibetan Plateau is now attracting widespread attention. In this paper, a series of experiments were conducted to study the influence of roots on hydrothermal behavior of alpine meadow located at ...
Min Hou, Zhihong Zhang, Xia Wang
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