Plant Community Traits Respond to Grazing Exclusion Duration in Alpine Meadow and Alpine Steppe on the Tibetan Plateau [PDF]
Frontiers in Plant Science, 2022 Grazing exclusion has been a primary ecological restoration practice since the implement of “Returning Grazing Land to Grassland” program in China. However, the debates on the effectiveness of grazing exclusion have kept for decades.
Tianyu Zhan +7 more
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Coupling Between the Responses of Plants, Soil, and Microorganisms Following Grazing Exclusion in an Overgrazed Grassland [PDF]
Frontiers in Plant Science, 2021 Grazing exclusion is an effective management practice to restore grassland ecosystem functioning. However, little is known about the role of soil microbial communities in regulating grassland ecosystem functioning during long-term ecosystem restorations.
Zhen Wang +5 more
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Short-Term Grazing Exclusion Alters Soil Bacterial Co-occurrence Patterns Rather Than Community Diversity or Composition in Temperate Grasslands [PDF]
Frontiers in Microbiology, 2022 Grazing exclusion is one of the most common practices for degraded grassland restoration worldwide. Soil microorganisms are critical components in soil and play important roles in maintaining grassland ecosystem functions.
Fangfang Wang +12 more
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Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2021 Grazing exclusion is an effective approach to restore degraded grasslands. However, the effects of grazing exclusion on keystone species and the complexity of plant community were poorly investigated.
Yong Zhang, Qingzhu Gao, Kemin Liang
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Soil fungal networks are more sensitive to grazing exclusion than bacterial networks [PDF]
PeerJ, 2020 Soil microbial communities play a crucial role in ecological restoration, but it is unknown how co-occurrence networks within these communities respond to grazing exclusion.
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Grazing exclusion is more beneficial for restoring soil organic carbon and nutrient balance than afforestation on degraded sandy land [PDF]
Frontiers in Plant Science, 2023 IntroductionVegetation restoration is an effective measure to improve the ecosystem service of degraded sandy land ecosystem. However, it is unclear how vegetation restoration on severely desertified land affect soil organic carbon (SOC) sequestration ...
Wenjie Cao +9 more
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Response of soil fungal communities and their co-occurrence patterns to grazing exclusion in different grassland types [PDF]
Frontiers in MicrobiologyOvergrazing and climate change are the main causes of grassland degradation, and grazing exclusion is one of the most common measures for restoring degraded grasslands worldwide.
Anjing Jiang +13 more
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Long-term ecological research in southern Brazil grasslands: Effects of grazing exclusion and deferred grazing on plant and arthropod communities. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2020 Grazing exclusion may lead to biodiversity loss and homogenization of naturally heterogeneous and species-rich grassland ecosystems, and these effects may cascade to higher trophic levels and ecosystem properties.
Pedro M A Ferreira +7 more
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Is grazing exclusion effective in restoring vegetation in degraded alpine grasslands in Tibet, China? [PDF]
PeerJ, 2015 Overgrazing is considered one of the key disturbance factors that results in alpine grassland degradation in Tibet. Grazing exclusion by fencing has been widely used as an approach to restore degraded grasslands in Tibet since 2004.
Yan Yan, Xuyang Lu
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Nutrient Characteristics in Relation to Plant Size of a Perennial Grass Under Grazing Exclusion in Degraded Grassland [PDF]
Frontiers in Plant Science, 2018 Identifying the linkages between nutrient properties and plant size is important for reducing uncertainty in understanding the mechanisms of plant phenotypic plasticity. Although the positive effects of grazing exclusion on plant morphological plasticity
Zhiying Liu +6 more
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