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Effect of Grazing Exclusion and Rotational Grazing on Soil Aggregate Stability in Typical Grasslands in Inner Mongolia, China

Frontiers in Environmental Science, 2022
Soil aggregate is extremely important for soil health and sustainable land management. Overgrazing has caused serious degeneration of grassland in the past decades and how to restore the degraded soil through grazing management is urgently needed.
Lei Dong, Lei Dong, Ying Zheng, Ying Zheng, Vegard Martinsen, Cunzhu Liang, Jan Mulder   +6 more
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Grazing exclusion mediates the trade-off between plant diversity and productivity in Leymus chinensis meadows along a chronosequence on the Songnen Plain, China

Ecological Indicators, 2021
Grazing exclusion has become an effective approach for restoring the structure and function of natural grassland ecosystems on the Songnen Plain, China.
Yang Gao, Yu An, Baolin Qi, Jian Liu, Hongzhu Yu, Duojia Wang   +5 more
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Six years of grazing exclusion is the optimum duration in the alpine meadow-steppe of the north-eastern Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau [PDF]

Scientific Reports, 2018
Shangli Shi, Jinlan Wang
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Effects of a decade of grazing exclusion on three Wyoming big sagebrush community types

Global Ecology and Conservation, 2022
Livestock grazing is the most extensive land use in Wyoming big sagebrush (Artemisia tridentata ssp. wyomingensis [Beetle & A. Young] S.L. Welsh) steppe and its effects on plant community characteristics have been greatly debated.
T.W. Thomas, K.W. Davies, R. Mata-Gonzalez, Lauren N. Svejcar, Danielle Clenet   +4 more
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How does grazing exclusion influence plant productivity and community structure in alpine grasslands of the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau?

Global Ecology and Conservation, 2020
Grazing exclusion by fencing is a commonly used management practice for restoring the degraded alpine grasslands on the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau (QTP).
Xiang Liu, Zhiwen Ma, Xiaotao Huang, Lanhai Li   +3 more
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Short-term grazing exclusion has no impact on soil properties and nutrients of degraded alpine grassland in Tibet, China [PDF]

Solid Earth, 2015
Since the 1980s, alpine grasslands have been seriously degraded on the Tibetan Plateau. Grazing exclusion by fencing has been widely adopted to restore degraded grasslands.
X. Lu, Y. Yan, J. Sun, X. Zhang, Y. Chen, X. Wang, G. Cheng   +6 more
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Long-Term Grazing Exclusion Reduces Species Diversity but Increases Community Heterogeneity in an Alpine Grassland

Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2020
Extensive grazing activity is threatening the alpine grassland of the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau. Evidence has shown that grazing exclusion may change the composition, structure, and functions of grassland ecosystems.
Shanshan Song, Jiangling Zhu, Tianli Zheng, Zhiyao Tang, Fan Zhang, Chengjun Ji, Zehao Shen, Jianxiao Zhu, Jianxiao Zhu   +8 more
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Divergent changes in plant community composition under 3-decade grazing exclusion in continental steppe. [PDF]

PLoS ONE, 2011
An understanding of the factors controlling plant community composition will allow improved prediction of the responses of plant communities to natural and anthropogenic environmental change.
Nianpeng He, Xingguo Han, Guirui Yu, Quansheng Chen   +3 more
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Grazing increases litter decomposition rate but decreases nitrogen release rate in an alpine meadow [PDF]

Biogeosciences, 2018
Litter decomposition and N release are the key processes that strongly determine the nutrient cycling at the soil–plant interface; however, how these processes are affected by grazing or grazing exclusion in the alpine grassland ecosystems on the ...
Y. Sun, Y. Sun, X. Z. He, F. Hou, Z. Wang, S. Chang   +5 more
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Cumulative effects of 20-year exclusion of livestock grazing on above- and belowground biomass of typical steppe communities in arid areas of the Loess Plateau, China

Plant, Soil and Environment, 2011
Overgrazing affects typical steppe community in ways similar to grasslands in other areas. Exclusion of livestock grazing is one of the main management practices used to protect grasslands.
J. Cheng, G.L. Wu, L.P. Zhao, Y. Li, W. Li, J.M. Cheng   +5 more
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