Plant functional trait diversity regulates the nonlinear response of productivity to regional climate change in Tibetan alpine grasslands

Leaf unfolding of Tibetan alpine meadows captures the arrival of monsoon rainfall

(2016) Ruicheng Li et al.   Scientific Reports

Using functional trait diversity to evaluate the contribution of multiple ecological processes to community assembly during succession

(2015) Hui Zhang et al.   ECOGRAPHY

Spatial and climatic patterns of the relative abundance of poisonous vs. non-poisonous plants across the Northern Tibetan Plateau

(2015) Jianshuang Wu et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING AND ASSESSMENT

Nonlinear responses of ecosystem carbon fluxes and water-use efficiency to nitrogen addition in Inner Mongolia grassland

(2015) Dashuan Tian et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Precipitation impacts on vegetation spring phenology on the Tibetan Plateau

(2015) Miaogen Shen et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Spatial-Temporal NDVI Variation of Different Alpine Grassland Classes and Groups in Northern Tibet from 2000 to 2013

(2015) Xiaoke Zhang et al.   MOUNTAIN RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT

Functional diversity enhances the resistance of ecosystem multifunctionality to aridity in Mediterranean drylands

(2015) Enrique Valencia et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Climate change may reduce litter decomposition while enhancing the contribution of photodegradation in dry perennial Mediterranean grasslands

(2015) María Almagro et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

Carbon, nitrogen, and phosphorus storage in alpine grassland ecosystems of Tibet: effects of grazing exclusion

(2015) Xuyang Lu et al.   Ecology and Evolution

The effects of grazing on foliar trait diversity and niche differentiation in Tibetan alpine meadows

(2015) Kechang Niu et al.   Ecosphere

Plant phenological responses to climate change on the Tibetan Plateau: research status and challenges

(2015) Miaogen Shen et al.   National Science Review

lavaan: AnRPackage for Structural Equation Modeling

(2015) Yves Rosseel   Journal of Statistical Software

Effects of Grazing on Above- vs. Below-Ground Biomass Allocation of Alpine Grasslands on the Northern Tibetan Plateau

(2015) Chaoxu Zeng et al.   PLoS One

Increasing altitudinal gradient of spring vegetation phenology during the last decade on the Qinghai–Tibetan Plateau

(2014) Miaogen Shen et al.   AGRICULTURAL AND FOREST METEOROLOGY

Effects of grazing vs mowing on the functional diversity of sub-Mediterranean productive grasslands

(2014) Andrea Catorci et al.   APPLIED VEGETATION SCIENCE

Effects of Grazing Exclusion on Plant Functional Group Diversity of Alpine Grasslands Along a Precipitation Gradient on the Northern Tibetan Plateau

(2014) Jianshuang Wu et al.   ARCTIC ANTARCTIC AND ALPINE RESEARCH

Effects of livestock exclusion and climate change on aboveground biomass accumulation in alpine pastures across the Northern Tibetan Plateau

(2014) Jianshuang Wu et al.   CHINESE SCIENCE BULLETIN

The biodiversity-dependent ecosystem service debt

(2014) Forest Isbell et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Causal networks clarify productivity-richness interrelations, bivariate plots do not

(2014) James B. Grace et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Elevation-dependent relationships between climate change and grassland vegetation variation across the Qinghai-Xizang Plateau

(2014) Jian Tao et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF CLIMATOLOGY

The spatial pattern of grassland aboveground biomass on Xizang Plateau and its climatic controls

(2014) Y. Jiang et al.   Journal of Plant Ecology

Below-ground competition drives the self-thinning process ofStipa purpureapopulations in northern Tibet

(2014) Juntao Zhu et al.   JOURNAL OF VEGETATION SCIENCE

Effects of Grazing Regimes on Plant Traits and Soil Nutrients in an Alpine Steppe, Northern Tibetan Plateau

(2014) Jian Sun et al.   PLoS One

Precipitation and species composition primarily determine the diversity–productivity relationship of alpine grasslands on the Northern Tibetan Plateau

(2014) Jianshuang Wu et al.   Alpine Botany

Impacts of increased variability in precipitation and air temperature on net primary productivity of the Tibetan Plateau: a modeling analysis

(2013) Jian-Sheng Ye et al.   CLIMATIC CHANGE

Uncovering multiscale effects of aridity and biotic interactions on the functional structure of Mediterranean shrublands

(2013) Nicolas Gross et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Biomass allocation patterns of alpine grassland species and functional groups along a precipitation gradient on the Northern Tibetan Plateau

(2013) Jian-shuang Wu et al.   Journal of Mountain Science

Grazing-Exclusion Effects on Aboveground Biomass and Water-Use Efficiency of Alpine Grasslands on the Northern Tibetan Plateau

(2013) Jianshuang Wu et al.   Rangeland Ecology & Management

Ecological and Environmental Issues Faced by a Developing Tibet

(2012) Chengqun Yu et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

Plant functional trait responses to interannual rainfall variability, summer drought and seasonal grazing in Mediterranean herbaceous communities

(2012) Lorenzo Pérez-Camacho et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Changes in coexistence mechanisms along a long-term soil chronosequence revealed by functional trait diversity

(2012) Norman W. H. Mason et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Meta-analysis of ANPP and rain-use efficiency confirms indicative value for degradation and supports non-linear response along precipitation gradients in drylands

(2012) Jan C. Ruppert et al.   JOURNAL OF VEGETATION SCIENCE

Causes for the unimodal pattern of biomass and productivity in alpine grasslands along a large altitudinal gradient in semi-arid regions

(2012) Zhong Wang et al.   JOURNAL OF VEGETATION SCIENCE

Effects of grazing and fertilization on the relationship between species abundance and functional traits in an alpine meadow community on the Tibetan Plateau

(2012) Wei Li et al.   NORDIC JOURNAL OF BOTANY

Functional traits analyses: Scaling-up from species to community level

(2012) Pilar Castro-Díez   PLANT AND SOIL

Predicting plant traits and functional types response to grazing in an alpine shrub meadow on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau

(2012) ZhiHong Zhu et al.   Science China-Earth Sciences

Third Pole Environment (TPE)

(2012) Tandong Yao et al.   Environmental Development

Root biomass distribution in alpine ecosystems of the northern Tibetan Plateau

(2011) Xiaojia Li et al.   Environmental Earth Sciences

High plant diversity is needed to maintain ecosystem services

(2011) Forest Isbell et al.   NATURE

CWM and Rao’s quadratic diversity: a unified framework for functional ecology

(2011) Carlo Ricotta et al.   OECOLOGIA

Vegetation distribution on Tibetan Plateau under climate change scenario

(2011) Dongsheng Zhao et al.   Regional Environmental Change

A distance-based framework for measuring functional diversity from multiple traits

(2010) Etienne Laliberté et al.   ECOLOGY

Precipitation-use efficiency along a 4500-km grassland transect

(2010) Hu Zhongmin et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

Environmental factors covary with plant diversity-productivity relationships among Chinese grassland sites

(2010) Wenhong Ma et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

Linking individual response to biotic interactions with community structure: a trait-based framework

(2009) Nicolas Gross et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Rangeland degradation on the Qinghai-Tibetan plateau: A review of the evidence of its magnitude and causes

(2009) R.B. Harris   JOURNAL OF ARID ENVIRONMENTS

Towards a trait-based quantification of species niche

(2009) C. Violle et al.   Journal of Plant Ecology

Linking grazing response of species abundance to functional traits in the Tibetan alpine meadow

(2009) Kechang Niu et al.   PLANT AND SOIL

PRIMARY PRODUCTION AND RAIN USE EFFICIENCY ACROSS A PRECIPITATION GRADIENT ON THE MONGOLIA PLATEAU

(2008) Yongfei Bai et al.   ECOLOGY

China: The third pole

(2008) Jane Qiu   NATURE