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Microbial Dispersal, Including Bison Dung Vectored Dispersal, Increases Soil Microbial Diversity in a Grassland Ecosystem

Frontiers in Microbiology, 2022
Microbial communities display biogeographical patterns that are driven by local environmental conditions and dispersal limitation, but the relative importance of underlying dispersal mechanisms and their consequences on community structure are not well ...
Jaide H. Hawkins, Lydia H. Zeglin
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GRASSLAND MANAGEMENT AND CONVERSION INTO GRASSLAND: EFFECTS ON SOIL CARBON [PDF]

Ecological Applications, 2001
Grasslands are heavily relied upon for food and forage production. A key component for sustaining production in grassland ecosystems is the maintenance of soil organic matter (SOM), which can be strongly influenced by management. Many management techniques intended to increase forage production may potentially increase SOM, thus sequestering ...
Conant, RT, Paustian, K, Elliott, ET
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Characteristics of soil microbial phospholipid fatty acids in artificial, black-soil mountain degraded, and natural grasslands in the source region of the Three Rivers [PDF]

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Background The source region of the Three Rivers is a concentrated distribution area of alpine grassland. Due to intensified human interference and unsustainable land use, the vegetation and soil in these grasslands have undergone severe degradation ...
Lele Xie, Yushou Ma, Yanlong Wang, Yuan Ma, Xiaoli Wang, Ying Liu   +5 more
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Research progress and prospects on grassland social-ecological systems [PDF]

Ziyuan Kexue
[Objective] The intensification of global change and human activities have increasingly exposed the complexity and vulnerability of grassland social-ecological systems (SES).
LIU Yue, ZHAO Wenwu, DING Jingyi
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Disembedding and Disentangling Grassland Valuation: Insights into Grassland Management Institutions and Ecological Research in China

Land
After two decades of implementing top-down grassland restoration projects focused on reducing livestock numbers and pastoralist populations, the Chinese government’s well-funded efforts have not significantly reversed grassland degradation.
Qian Zhang, KuoRay Mao
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Combining satellite data and agricultural statistics to map grassland management intensity in Europe

Environmental Research Letters, 2018
The world’s grasslands, both natural and managed, provide food and many non-provisioning ecosystem services. Although most grasslands today are used for livestock grazing or fodder production, little is known about the spatial patterns of grassland ...
Stephan Estel, Sebastian Mader, Christian Levers, Peter H Verburg, Matthias Baumann, Tobias Kuemmerle   +5 more
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Trends in temperature and rainfall extremes during recent years at different stations of Himachal Pradesh

Journal of Agrometeorology, 2017
Daily maximum and minimum temperatures of 4 stations and rainfall of 22 stations of Himachal Pradesh for the period of 1970 to 2014 have been used to work out extreme climate indices and trends.
RAJENDRA PRASAD, JYOTI PATIAL, ANUPAM SHARMA   +2 more
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Divergent Responses of Bacterial Communities to Permafrost Degradation and Their Associations With Carbon Across Vertical Profiles

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
Bacterial α‐diversity decreases, but stochasticity and community stability increase across the 15 m‐depth vertical profiles and along the degraded gradient within the active layer. The abundance and interaction of core taxa mainly control community stability in the active and permafrost layers, respectively.
Shengyun Chen, Yuzheng Gu, Ali Bahadur, Enyan Liu, Tonghua Wu, Xiaofan Zhu, Yuanqiang Zou, Hewei Liang, Peijie Wei, Linwei Wu, Qingbai Wu, Peizhi Yang, Hongyan Yu, Yunfeng Yang   +13 more
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Understanding the Dynamics of Sex-Specific Responses Driven by Grassland Management: Using Syrphids as a Model Insect Group

Land
Grassland ecosystems, managed by various grassland managements strategies, are the world’s most important land use. However, insect’s sex-specific responses within the context of grassland management have never been considered before.
Raja Imran Hussain, Daniela Ablinger, Walter Starz, Jürgen Kurt Friedel, Thomas Frank   +4 more
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Optimal Grazing Exclusion Duration to Enhance Soil Carbon Sequestration in Degraded Grasslands

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
Across China, grazing exclusion reaches the national mean soil organic carbon recovery benchmark sooner in high‐MAP regions (> 500 mm), but recovery is much slower where MAP < 300 mm. Scaling this strategy to 70% of China's degraded grasslands would sequester about 1.52 Pg of soil carbon over 10 years—roughly 17% of annual global fossil‐fuel emissions.
Bin Zhang, Chongzhi Sun, Dongmei Xue, Paul Christiaan Struik, Tongrui Zhang, Jiayue Liu, Tingting Xing, Ziyang Liu, Shiming Tang, Ke Jin   +9 more
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