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Plant diversity is closely related to the density of zokor mounds in three alpine rangelands on the Tibetan Plateau [PDF]

PeerJ, 2019
Background Plateau zokor (Myospalax baileyi) is a subterranean rodent endemic to the Tibetan Plateau. This species has been generally viewed as a pest in China due to the competition for food with livestock and also causing soil erosion.
Yujie Niu, Jianwei Zhou, Siwei Yang, Bin Chu, Huimin Zhu, Bo Zhang, Qiangen Fang, Zhuangsheng Tang, Limin Hua   +8 more
doaj   +2 more sources

Climate Change-Induced Range Expansion of a Subterranean Rodent: Implications for Rangeland Management in Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau. [PDF]

PLoS ONE, 2015
Disturbances, both human-induced and natural, may re-shape ecosystems by influencing their composition, structure, and functional processes. Plateau zokor (Eospalax baileyi) is a typical subterranean rodent endemic to Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau (QTP), which
Junhu Su, Achyut Aryal, Achyut Aryal, Zhibiao Nan, Weihong Ji   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Increased availability of preferred food and decreased foraging costs from degraded grasslands lead to rodent pests in the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau

Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2022
The increased population density of rodent species during ongoing grassland degradation further deteriorates its conditions. Understanding the effects of grassland degradation on rodent feeding habits is of great value for optimizing grassland management
Caijun Zhang, Caijun Zhang, Yukun Kang, Yukun Kang, Baohui Yao, Baohui Yao, Kang An, Kang An, Qiangsheng Pu, Qiangsheng Pu, Zhicheng Wang, Zhicheng Wang, Xiaomei Sun, Xiaomei Sun, Junhu Su, Junhu Su   +15 more
doaj   +1 more source

Human activities modulate reciprocal effects of a subterranean ecological engineer rodent, Tachyoryctes macrocephalus, on Afroalpine vegetation cover

Ecology and Evolution, Volume 13, Issue 7, July 2023., 2023
In our study, we tested how human activities in terms of livestock grazing and settlements affect the reciprocal effects between vegetation and giant root‐rats. Our results show that increasing livestock grazing intensity causes increases in giant root‐rat burrow density indirectly through decreased vegetation cover.
Addisu Asefa, Victoria Reuber, Georg Miehe, Luise Wraase, Tilaye Wube, Dana G. Schabo, Nina Farwig   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Gut Microbiome Alterations and Hepatic Metabolic Flexibility in the Gansu Zokor, Eospalax cansus: Adaptation to Hypoxic Niches

Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine, 2022
The Gansu zokor (Eospalax cansus), a typical subterranean rodent endemic to the Chinese Loess Plateau, spends almost its whole life in its self-constructed underground burrows and has strong adaptability to ambient hypoxia.
Jinyan Lin, Qi Yang, Juanjuan Guo, Meng Li, Zhiqiang Hao, Jianping He, Jingang Li   +6 more
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Gut Microbiota Regulate Lipid Metabolism via the Bile Acid Pathway: Resistance to Hypoxia in Gansu Zokor (Eospalax cansus). [PDF]

Integr Zool
The gut microbiota regulates lipid metabolism of Gansu zokor (Eospalax cansus) through the bile acid pathway in hypoxic environments, reflecting the unique survival strategy of subterranean rodents to maintain lipid metabolism homeostasis and flexible energy metabolism in hypoxic environments.
Yang M, Zhang Y, Li Z, Liu T, He J, Li J.   +5 more
europepmc   +2 more sources

Sympatric Speciation in Mole Rats and Wild Barley and Their Genome Repeatome Evolution: A Commentary

Advanced Genetics, Volume 3, Issue 4, December 2022., 2022
Our discovery in subterranean mammals and wild barley that noncoding genome or repeatome shows a mirror image of the coding genome suggests that they are both selected by the same ecological stresses and are both functionally adaptive. Abstract The theories of sympatric speciation (SS) and coding and noncoding (cd and ncd =repeatome) genome function ...
Eviatar Nevo, Kexin Li
wiley   +1 more source

The role of herbivores in the grassland carbon budget for Three‐Rivers Headwaters region, Qinghai–Tibetan Plateau, China

Grassland Research, Volume 1, Issue 3, Page 207-219, September 2022., 2022
The herbivore carbon budget was estimated by an animal metabolic model developed in the Three‐Rivers Headwaters region. The livestock contributed 88% of the total consumed carbon that was returned 44% to grassland as feces and urine, and 40% through respiration and the remaining 4% in wildlife and 13% in livestock.
Junbang Wang, Xinquan Zhao, Xihuang Ouyang, Liang Zhao, Wenying Wang, Chan Zuo, Zhenhua Zhang, Huakun Zhou, Alan Watson, Yingnian Li, Jin‐Sheng He   +10 more
wiley   +1 more source

Vascular characteristics and expression of hypoxia genes in Tibetan pigs’ hearts

Veterinary Medicine and Science, Volume 8, Issue 1, Page 177-186, January 2022., 2022
Tibetan pigs have exhibited unique characteristics from low‐altitudes pigs and have adapted well to the Qinghai‐Tibet Plateau, but how this occurs is incompletely understood. We found that Tibetan pigs had larger diameters and higher densities of arterioles than Landrace pigs (p < 0.05), and these features have a similar variation with the expression ...
Yanan Yang, Caixia Gao, Tianliang Yang, Yuzhu Sha, Yuan Cai, Xinrong Wang, Qiaoli Yang, Chengze Liu, Biao Wang, Shengguo Zhao   +9 more
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The hypoxia adaptation of small mammals to plateau and underground burrow conditions

Animal Models and Experimental Medicine, Volume 4, Issue 4, Page 319-328, December 2021., 2021
Small mammals have evolved mechanisms of hypoxia adaptation living under plateau and underground burrow conditions. Abstract Oxygen is one of the important substances for the survival of most life systems on the earth, and plateau and underground burrow systems are two typical hypoxic environments.
Mengke Li, Dan Pan, Hong Sun, Lei Zhang, Han Cheng, Tian Shao, Zhenlong Wang   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source