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Grazing rest during spring regreening period promotes the ecological restoration of degraded alpine meadow vegetation through enhanced plant photosynthesis and respiration

Frontiers in Plant Science, 2022
Grazing rest during the spring regreening period is the most economical and feasible measure for the ecological restoration of degraded alpine meadows and has been widely popularized and applied in China.
Ying Liu
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Alpine steppe vegetation communities are more sensitive to plateau pika disturbance than alpine meadows. [PDF]

Front Plant Sci
IntroductionSmall herbivores are important biological factors affecting plant productivity and species richness in the grassland ecosystem of the Tibetan Plateau. However, the response of different grassland types to the disturbance of the “endemic species” plateau pika (Ochotona curzoniae) remains unclear.MethodsIn this study, two representative ...
Hua R, Zhang P, Wang L, Huang M, Hua L, Zhou J.   +5 more
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Effects of Soil Properties on the Demography of Bud Banks in Different Degraded Meadows on the Qinghai–Tibet Plateau

Plants
Although bud banks are key components of vegetation regeneration in degraded alpine meadows, their relationships with soil conditions on the Qinghai–Tibet Plateau remain insufficiently understood.
Yuan Li, Qian Zhao, Shuihong Chen, Gensheng Bao   +3 more
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Stability response of alpine meadow communities to temperature and precipitation changes on the Northern Tibetan Plateau

Ecology and Evolution, 2022
Biomass temporal stability plays a key role in maintaining sustainable ecosystem functions and services of grasslands, and climate change has exerted a profound impact on plant biomass.
Chunyu Wang, Junbang Wang, Fawei Zhang, Yongsheng Yang, Fanglin Luo, Yingnian Li, Jiexia Li   +6 more
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Impact of plateau pika burrowing activity on the grass/sedge ratio in alpine sedge meadows in China

Frontiers in Plant Science, 2022
IntroductionBurrowing activities of plateau pikas cause widespread bare patches in alpine meadows on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, affecting the plant community composition and forage production. However, it is not clear how these bare patches influence the
Xiang Yao, Haoran Wang, Saiqi Zhang, Maria Oosthuizen, Yilin Huang, Wanrong Wei   +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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Impact of alpine land cover change on semi-nomadic pastoralists in the Eastern Himalayan region of Bhutan

Sustainable Geosciences: People, Planet and Prosperity
Woodland encroachment into Bhutan’s alpine meadows has adversely affected 1156 alpine pastoralist households by reducing pastureland and lowering the yield of medicinal herbs.
Changa Tshering, Rajanathan Rajaratnam, Rajesh Thapa, Tani Cooper, Ngawang Chhogyel   +4 more
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Target species rather than plant community tell the success of ecological restoration for degraded alpine meadows

Ecological Indicators, 2022
Ecological conservation and restoration projects in Three-river Headwater Region (TRHR) have been implemented to respond to the serious degradation of alpine meadow ecosystem.
Yudan Xu, Shikui Dong, Xiaoxia Gao, Shengnan Wu, Mingyue Yang, Shuai Li, Hao Shen, Jiannan Xiao, Yangliu Zhi, Xinyue Zhao, Zhiyuan Mu, Shiliang Liu   +11 more
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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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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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