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Land parcellation reduced spatial redundancy resulting in grassland degradation

People and Nature
Degradation is the most immediate threat to biodiversity and sustainable livelihoods of global pastoral grasslands. However, we are still uncertain why grassland degradation is enhanced by the land policy of grassland parcellation.
JianXin Jiao, ShanShan Li, WenYin Wang, LingYan Qi, A. Allan Degen, YanFu Bai, Ting Jiao, ZhanHuan Shang   +7 more
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Chinese degraded grasslands – pathways for sustainability [PDF]

The Rangeland Journal, 2020
The 400 m ha of grazing lands in China, mainly across the north and west of the country, have similar problems to those throughout the steppe of Mongolia, Central Asia and neighbouring countries. The grasslands are in drier regions (50–500 mm) across mainly Inner Mongolia, Xinjiang, Tibet, Qinghai, Gansu and Sichuan, often at higher altitudes on the ...
David R. Kemp, Karl Behrendt, Warwick B. Badgery, Guodong D. Han, Ping Li, Yingjun Zhang, Jianping Wu, F. J. Hou   +7 more
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Assessment of multiple factors and interactions affecting grassland degradation on the Tibetan Plateau

Ecological Indicators, 2023
The Tibetan Plateau (TP), a vital region for terrestrial ecosystem services and biodiversity, is facing severe grassland degradation influenced by multiple factors.
Shanshan Wang, Erfu Dai, Lizhi Jia, Yijia Wang, Anqi Huang, Lei Liao, Liping Cai, Donglin Fan   +7 more
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Impacts of climate change and human activities on different degraded grassland based on NDVI

Scientific Reports, 2022
Grassland degradation has emerged as a serious socio-economic and ecological problem, endangering both long-term usage and the regional biogeochemical cycle. Climate change and human activities are the two leading factors leading to grassland degradation.
Qingqing Hou, Zhenxia Ji, Hang Yang, Xiaojun Yu   +3 more
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Alpine Grassland Degradation and Its Restoration in the Qinghai–Tibet Plateau

Grasses, 2023
The alpine grasslands of the Qinghai–Tibet Plateau are one of the most famous grazing ecosystems in the world, providing a variety of ecosystem functions and services.
Hua-kun Zhou, Xiaoyuan Yang, Chenyu Zhou, X. Shao, Zhengchen Shi, Honglin Li, Hongye Su, R. Qin, T.-T. Chang, Xue Hu, Fang Yuan, Shan Li, Zhong-hua Zhang, Li Ma   +13 more
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Divergent trends in grassland degradation and desertification under land use and climate change in Central Asia from 2000 to 2020

Ecological Indicators, 2023
Grassland degradation (within-state change) and desertification (state conversion from grasslands to deserts) are different states in the complex dynamic process of grassland deterioration.
Yanbo Zhao, Jie Wang, Geli Zhang, Luo Liu, Jilin Yang, Xiaocui Wu, Ç. Biradar, Jinwei Dong, Xiangming Xiao   +8 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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Alpine grassland degradation intensifies the burrowing behavior of small mammals: evidence for a negative feedback loop.

Integrative Zoology, 2023
Globally, grassland degradation is an acute ecological problem. In alpine grassland on the Tibetan Plateau, increased densities of various small mammals in degraded grassland are assumed to intensify the degradation process and these mammals are subject ...
Zaiwei Wang, Jiawen Yan, Amy Martin, D. Brunton, Jiapeng Qu, Jibo He, W. Ji, Z. Nan   +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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Grassland degradation affects the response of soil bacterial and plant but not fungal diversity to nitrogen addition

Journal of Ecology, 2023
1. Atmospheric nitrogen (N) deposition poses serious threats to plant and soil microbial communities in natural grasslands, which can have consequences on ecosystem functioning.
Yufan Wang, Hongjin Zhang, Guo-Xu Yu, Lizheng Dong, Jian Kang, Wen Wang   +5 more
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