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A Perspective on the Impact of Grassland Degradation on Ecosystem Services for the Purpose of Sustainable Management

Remote Sensing, 2022
Grassland degradation seriously threatens the ability of grassland to provide ecosystem services. Grassland ecological restoration and sustainable management decision making depends on an accurate understanding of the impacts of grassland degradation on ...
Xin Lyu, Xiaobing Li, Dongliang Dang, Huashun Dou, Kai Wang, Jirui Gong, Hong Wang, Shiliang Liu   +7 more
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The driving factors of grassland water use efficiency along degradation gradients on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, China

Global Ecology and Conservation, 2022
Ecosystem water use efficiency (WUE) is an important parameter of carbon-water coupling, which connects the carbon cycle and water cycle. It is crucial to understand the spatial and temporal distribution of WUE in degraded grassland and its influencing ...
Zhenxia Ji, Tingting Pei, Ying Chen, Huawu Wu, Qingqing Hou, Fangzhong Shi, Baopeng Xie, Jiaxin Zhang   +7 more
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Global degradation trends of grassland and their driving factors since 2000

International Journal of Digital Earth, 2023
Grassland is the second largest terrestrial ecosystem and a fundamental land resource for human survival and development. Although grassland degradation is a recognized and crucial ecological problem, there is no consensus on the area, scope, and degree ...
Ziyu Yan, Zhihai Gao, Bin Sun, Xiangyuan Ding, Ting Gao, Yifu Li   +5 more
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Responses of Soil Microbial Metabolic Activity and Community Structure to Different Degraded and Restored Grassland Gradients of the Tibetan Plateau

Frontiers in Plant Science, 2022
Climate change and land-use disturbances are supposed to have severely affected the degraded alpine grasslands on the Tibetan Plateau. Artificial grassland establishment has been implemented as a restoration tool against grassland degradation.
Dangjun Wang, Dangjun Wang, Dangjun Wang, Dangjun Wang, Huakun Zhou, Juan Zuo, Peng Chen, Yandi She, Yandi She, Buqing Yao, Shikui Dong, Jianshuang Wu, Fan Li, Fan Li, Denis Mburu Njoroge, Denis Mburu Njoroge, Denis Mburu Njoroge, Guoxi Shi, Xufeng Mao, Li Ma, Li Ma, Zhonghua Zhang, Zhonghua Zhang, Zhun Mao   +23 more
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Dynamic of Grassland Degradation and Its Driving Forces from Climate Variation and Human Activities in Central Asia

Agronomy, 2023
Central Asia is one of the most sensitive regions to climate changes in the world and the grassland degradation of this region has attracted considerable concern.
Yue Yang, Mengjia Xu, Jie Sun, Jie Qiu, Wenming Pei, Kun Zhang, Xiaojuan Xu, Dong Liu   +7 more
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A Meta-Analysis on Degraded Alpine Grassland Mediated by Climate Factors: Enlightenment for Ecological Restoration

Frontiers in Plant Science, 2022
Alpine grassland is the main ecosystem on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau (QTP). Degradation and restoration of alpine grassland are related to ecosystem function and production, livelihood, and wellbeing of local people.
Jiale Yu, Jiale Yu, Lingfan Wan, Lingfan Wan, Guohua Liu, Guohua Liu, Keming Ma, Keming Ma, Hao Cheng, Hao Cheng, Yu Shen, Yu Shen, Yuqing Liu, Yuqing Liu, Xukun Su, Xukun Su   +15 more
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Using Landsat OLI and Random Forest to Assess Grassland Degradation with Aboveground Net Primary Production and Electrical Conductivity Data

ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information, 2019
Grassland coverage, aboveground net primary production (ANPP), and species composition are used as indicators of grassland degradation. However, soil salinization deficiency, which is also a factor of grassland degradation, is rarely used in grassland ...
Hao Yu, Lei Wang, Zongming Wang, Chunying Ren, Bai Zhang   +4 more
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Diversity and Variation of Asymbiotic Nitrogen-Fixing Microorganisms in Alpine Grasslands on the Tibetan Plateau

Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2021
Asymbiotic nitrogen-fixing (ANF) bacteria contribute a substantial amount of nitrogen in ecosystems, especially in those with low symbiotic nitrogen fixation (SNF) capability.
Wenyan Li, Fei Li, Haijun Zeng, Lin Ma, Lingyan Qi, Xiaochun Wang, Wenyin Wang, Zhen Peng, A. Allan Degen, Yanfu Bai, Tao Zhang, Mei Huang, Jin Han, Zhanhuan Shang, Zhanhuan Shang, Zhanhuan Shang   +15 more
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Spatio-temporal variation in grassland degradation and its main drivers, based on biomass: Case study in the Altay Prefecture, China

Global Ecology and Conservation, 2019
Analyzing the spatio-temporal characteristics and identifying of main factors that drive grassland degradation are essential for formulating ecological restoration measures for grassland. In this study, we addressed two main scientific questions: (1) how
Guangpeng Zhang, Junjie Yan, Xiaotong Zhu, Hongbo Ling, Hailiang Xu   +4 more
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Soil organic matter and water content affect the community characteristics of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi in Helan mountain, an arid desert grassland area in China

Frontiers in Microbiology
IntroductionArbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF) are vital in terrestrial ecosystems. However, the community structure characteristics and influencing factors of AMF in the forest ecosystems of arid desert grassland areas require further investigation ...
Leilei Shao, Leilei Shao, Peixuan Yan, Siqi Ye, Siqi Ye, Hao Bai, Hao Bai, Rui Zhang, Rui Zhang, Guangyao Shi, Guangyao Shi, Yang Hu, Yang Hu, Danbo Pang, Danbo Pang, Xiang Niu, Xilu Ni, Xilu Ni   +17 more
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