The Palaearctic steppe biome: a new synthesis

Simulated grazing effects on carbon emission in Central Asia

(2016) Qifei Han et al.   AGRICULTURAL AND FOREST METEOROLOGY

The invasion of common milkweed (Asclepias syriaca) in sandy old-fields - is it a threat to the native flora?

(2016) András Kelemen et al.   APPLIED VEGETATION SCIENCE

Vegetation of Europe: hierarchical floristic classification system of vascular plant, bryophyte, lichen, and algal communities

(2016) Ladislav Mucina et al.   APPLIED VEGETATION SCIENCE

Post-Soviet recovery of grassland vegetation on abandoned fields in the forest steppe zone of Western Siberia

(2016) Immo Kämpf et al.   BIODIVERSITY AND CONSERVATION

Persistent and novel threats to the biodiversity of Kazakhstan’s steppes and semi-deserts

(2016) Johannes Kamp et al.   BIODIVERSITY AND CONSERVATION

Cultural monuments and nature conservation: a review of the role of kurgans in the conservation and restoration of steppe vegetation

(2016) Balázs Deák et al.   BIODIVERSITY AND CONSERVATION

An overview of biodiversity and conservation status of steppes of the Anatolian Biogeographical Region

(2016) Didem Ambarlı et al.   BIODIVERSITY AND CONSERVATION

Patterns and drivers of phytodiversity in steppe grasslands of Central Podolia (Ukraine)

(2016) Anna A. Kuzemko et al.   BIODIVERSITY AND CONSERVATION

Scale- and taxon-dependent patterns of plant diversity in steppes of Khakassia, South Siberia (Russia)

(2016) Mariya A. Polyakova et al.   BIODIVERSITY AND CONSERVATION

Vegetation and soil responses to livestock grazing in Central Asian grasslands: a review of Chinese literature

(2016) Yun Wang et al.   BIODIVERSITY AND CONSERVATION

Breeding ecology of the endemic Black Lark Melanocorypha yeltoniensis on natural steppe and abandoned croplands in post-Soviet Kazakhstan

(2016) Thomas K. Lameris et al.   BIODIVERSITY AND CONSERVATION

Circumpolar Arctic vegetation: a hierarchic review and roadmap toward an internationally consistent approach to survey, archive and classify tundra plot data

(2016) D A Walker et al.   Environmental Research Letters

Severe depletion of soil moisture following land-use changes for ecological restoration: Evidence from northern China

(2016) Lei Deng et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

Drivers, constraints and trade-offs associated with recultivating abandoned cropland in Russia, Ukraine and Kazakhstan

(2016) Patrick Meyfroidt et al.   GLOBAL ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE-HUMAN AND POLICY DIMENSIONS

Grasslands in ‘Old World’ and ‘New World’ Mediterranean-climate zones: past trends, current status and future research priorities

(2016) C. Porqueddu et al.   GRASS AND FORAGE SCIENCE

A pastoral frontier: From chaos to capitalism and the re-colonisation of the Kazakh rangelands

(2016) Carol Kerven et al.   JOURNAL OF ARID ENVIRONMENTS

From feast to famine on the steppes

(2016) David P. Mallon   ORYX

Introducing the IAVS Vegetation Classification Working Group

(2016) Scott B. Franklin et al.   PHYTOCOENOLOGIA

Potential of temperate agricultural soils for carbon sequestration: A meta-analysis of land-use effects

(2016) Immo Kämpf et al.   SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT

Spatio-temporal analysis of agricultural land-use intensity across the Western Siberian grain belt

(2016) Insa Kühling et al.   SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT

China's Grassland Contract Policy and its Impacts on Herder Ability to Benefit in Inner Mongolia: Tragic Feedbacks

(2016) Wenjun Li et al.   ECOLOGY AND SOCIETY

Climate variability rather than overstocking causes recent large scale cover changes of Tibetan pastures

(2016) L. W. Lehnert et al.   Scientific Reports

Analysis of spatial and temporal patterns of net primary production and their climate controls in China from 1982 to 2010

(2015) Wei Liang et al.   AGRICULTURAL AND FOREST METEOROLOGY

Applying the social–ecological systems framework to the evaluation and design of payment for ecosystem service schemes in the Eurasian steppe

(2015) J. Addison et al.   BIODIVERSITY AND CONSERVATION

Spontaneous steppe restoration on abandoned cropland in Kazakhstan: grazing affects successional pathways

(2015) Annika Brinkert et al.   BIODIVERSITY AND CONSERVATION

MakingCarexmonophyletic (Cyperaceae, tribe Cariceae): a new broader circumscription

(2015)   BOTANICAL JOURNAL OF THE LINNEAN SOCIETY

Long-term agricultural land-cover change and potential for cropland expansion in the former Virgin Lands area of Kazakhstan

(2015) Roland Kraemer et al.   Environmental Research Letters

Carbon storage capacity of semi-arid grassland soils and sequestration potentials in northern China

(2015) Martin Wiesmeier et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Temperature and snowfall trigger alpine vegetation green-up on the world's roof

(2015) Xiaoqiu Chen et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Detection and attribution of vegetation greening trend in China over the last 30 years

(2015) Shilong Piao et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

A meta-analysis of climate change effects on forage quality in grasslands: specificities of mountain and Mediterranean areas

(2015) B. Dumont et al.   GRASS AND FORAGE SCIENCE

Agricultural development and the conservation of avian biodiversity on the Eurasian steppes: a comparison of land-sparing and land-sharing approaches

(2015) Johannes Kamp et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED ECOLOGY

Trend analysis of MODIS NDVI time series for detecting land degradation and regeneration in Mongolia

(2015) Sandra Eckert et al.   JOURNAL OF ARID ENVIRONMENTS

Carbon pools and fluxes in a Tibetan alpine Kobresia pygmaea pasture partitioned by coupled eddy-covariance measurements and 13CO2 pulse labeling

(2015) Johannes Ingrisch et al.   SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT

Yak whole-genome resequencing reveals domestication signatures and prehistoric population expansions

(2015) Qiang Qiu et al.   Nature Communications

Biodiversity of Palaearctic grasslands: a synthesis

(2014) Jürgen Dengler et al.   AGRICULTURE ECOSYSTEMS & ENVIRONMENT

Change of Snow Cover and Its Impact on Alpine Vegetation in the Source Regions of Large Rivers on the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau, China

(2014) Yun-fan Wan et al.   ARCTIC ANTARCTIC AND ALPINE RESEARCH

Reintroduction of Przewalski’s horse ( Equus ferus przewalskii ) in Xinjiang, China: The status and experience

(2014) Canjun Xia et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

Correlation of trends in cashmere production and declines of large wild mammals: response to Berger et al. 2013

(2014) Henrik von Wehrden et al.   CONSERVATION BIOLOGY

Conserving the World's Finest Grassland Amidst Ambitious National Development

(2014) NYAMSUREN BATSAIKHAN et al.   CONSERVATION BIOLOGY

Vulnerability of the Tibetan Pastoral Systems to Climate and Global Change

(2014) Yang Wang et al.   ECOLOGY AND SOCIETY

Changes in autumn vegetation dormancy onset date and the climate controls across temperate ecosystems in China from 1982 to 2010

(2014) Yuting Yang et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Land-use change and land degradation in Turkmenistan in the post-Soviet era

(2014) Shai Kaplan et al.   JOURNAL OF ARID ENVIRONMENTS

Distribution mapping of world grassland types

(2014) A. P. Dixon et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOGEOGRAPHY

Explaining spatial variations in climate hazard impacts in western Mongolia

(2014) Nick Middleton et al.   LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY

Satellite-indicated long-term vegetation changes and their drivers on the Mongolian Plateau

(2014) Xia Zhao et al.   LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY

Effects of precipitation on grassland ecosystem restoration under grazing exclusion in Inner Mongolia, China

(2014) Lu Hao et al.   LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY

Weighing up reuse of Soviet croplands

(2014) Johannes Kamp   NATURE

Climate change and grazing interact to alter flowering patterns in the Mongolian steppe

(2014) Laura A. Spence et al.   OECOLOGIA

Conservation Action Based on Threatened Species Capture Taxonomic and Phylogenetic Richness in Breeding and Wintering Populations of Central Asian Birds

(2014) Manuel Schweizer et al.   PLoS One

The sustainable development of grassland-livestock systems on the Tibetan plateau: problems, strategies and prospects

(2014) Z. H. Shang et al.   RANGELAND JOURNAL

A 2010 update of National Land Use/Cover Database of China at 1:100000 scale using medium spatial resolution satellite images

(2014) Zengxiang Zhang et al.   REMOTE SENSING OF ENVIRONMENT

Agriculture facilitated permanent human occupation of the Tibetan Plateau after 3600 B.P.

(2014) F. H. Chen et al.   SCIENCE

Climate extremes in South Western Siberia: past and future

(2014) Degefie T. Degefie et al.   STOCHASTIC ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH AND RISK ASSESSMENT

Effects of landscape, land use and vegetation on bird community composition and diversity in Inner Anatolian steppes

(2013) Didem Ambarlı et al.   AGRICULTURE ECOSYSTEMS & ENVIRONMENT

Review: Prospects and limitations of prescribed burning as a management tool in European grasslands

(2013) Orsolya Valkó et al.   BASIC AND APPLIED ECOLOGY

European grassland ecosystems: threatened hotspots of biodiversity

(2013) Jan Christian Habel et al.   BIODIVERSITY AND CONSERVATION

Space and habitat use by wild Bactrian camels in the Transaltai Gobi of southern Mongolia

(2013) Petra Kaczensky et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

Climate change trend in China, with improved accuracy

(2013) Tian-Xiang Yue et al.   CLIMATIC CHANGE

Globalization of the Cashmere Market and the Decline of Large Mammals in Central Asia

(2013) JOEL BERGER et al.   CONSERVATION BIOLOGY

Positive interactions between large herbivores and grasshoppers, and their consequences for grassland plant diversity

(2013) Zhiwei Zhong et al.   ECOLOGY

Islands of Fertility: A Byproduct of Grazing?

(2013) Ginger R. H. Allington et al.   ECOSYSTEMS

Grazing alters the biophysical regulation of carbon fluxes in a desert steppe

(2013) Changliang Shao et al.   Environmental Research Letters

Mapping the extent of abandoned farmland in Central and Eastern Europe using MODIS time series satellite data

(2013) Camilo Alcantara et al.   Environmental Research Letters

Vegetation Patterns of the Irano-Turanian Steppe along a 3,000 m Altitudinal Gradient in the Alborz Mountains of Northern Iran

(2013) Hossein Akhani et al.   FOLIA GEOBOTANICA

Post-Soviet cropland abandonment and carbon sequestration in European Russia, Ukraine, and Belarus

(2013) Florian Schierhorn et al.   GLOBAL BIOGEOCHEMICAL CYCLES

The impacts of climate change and human activities on biogeochemical cycles on the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau

(2013) Huai Chen et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Satellite observed widespread decline in Mongolian grasslands largely due to overgrazing

(2013) Thomas Hilker et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Carbon cost of collective farming collapse in Russia

(2013) Irina Kurganova et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Origin and history of grasslands in Central Europe - a review

(2013) M. Hejcman et al.   GRASS AND FORAGE SCIENCE

Precipitation Seasonality and Variability over the Tibetan Plateau as Resolved by the High Asia Reanalysis*

(2013) Fabien Maussion et al.   JOURNAL OF CLIMATE

Changes in some soil properties induced by re-conversion of cropland into grassland in the semiarid steppe zone of Inner Mongolia, China

(2013) Zhi-Hua Zhang et al.   PLANT AND SOIL

Changing Climate and Overgrazing Are Decimating Mongolian Steppes

(2013) Yi Y. Liu et al.   PLoS One

Changes in land use/land cover and ecosystem services in Central Asia during 1990–2009

(2013) Xi Chen et al.   Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability

Drought and spring cooling induced recent decrease in vegetation growth in Inner Asia

(2012) Anwar Mohammat et al.   AGRICULTURAL AND FOREST METEOROLOGY

Niche separation of larks (Alaudidae) and agricultural change on the drylands of the former Soviet Union

(2012) Johannes Kamp et al.   AGRICULTURE ECOSYSTEMS & ENVIRONMENT

Vegetation diversity of salt-rich grasslands in Southeast Europe

(2012) Pavol Eliáš et al.   APPLIED VEGETATION SCIENCE

Challenges to the Future Development of Iran’s Protected Areas System

(2012) Mahdi Kolahi et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT

Climatic determinism in phytogeographic regionalization: A test from the Irano-Turanian region, SW and Central Asia

(2012) Morteza Djamali et al.   FLORA

Species Diversity and Life-Form Patterns in Steppe Vegetation along a 3000 m Altitudinal Gradient in the Alborz Mountains, Iran

(2012) Parastoo Mahdavi et al.   FOLIA GEOBOTANICA

Ecological roles and conservation challenges of social, burrowing, herbivorous mammals in the world's grasslands

(2012) Ana D Davidson et al.   FRONTIERS IN ECOLOGY AND THE ENVIRONMENT

Spatial variations in aboveground net primary productivity along a climate gradient in Eurasian temperate grassland: effects of mean annual precipitation and its seasonal distribution

(2012) Qun Guo et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Plant functional traits mediate reproductive phenology and success in response to experimental warming and snow addition in Tibet

(2012) Tsechoe Dorji et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Dynamics of natural vegetation on the Tibetan Plateau from past to future using a comprehensive and sequential classification system and remote sensing data

(2012) Tiangang Liang et al.   GRASSLAND SCIENCE

Social and ecological constraints on decision making by transhumant pastoralists: a case study from the Moroccan Atlas Mountains

(2012) Zakia Akasbi et al.   Journal of Mountain Science

Assessment of drought frequency, duration, and severity and its impact on pasture production in Mongolia

(2012) Banzragch Nandintsetseg et al.   NATURAL HAZARDS

Increasing nitrogen deposition enhances post-drought recovery of grassland productivity in the Mongolian steppe

(2012) Toshihiko Kinugasa et al.   OECOLOGIA

Linking thaw depth with soil moisture and plant community composition: effects of permafrost degradation on alpine ecosystems on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau

(2012) Zhao-ping Yang et al.   PLANT AND SOIL

The impact of land degradation on the C pools in alpine grasslands of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau

(2012) Lu Wen et al.   PLANT AND SOIL

A critical review of degradation assumptions applied to Mongolia's Gobi Desert

(2012) J. Addison et al.   RANGELAND JOURNAL

Effect of snow disasters on livestock farming in some rangeland regions of China and mitigation strategies ? a review

(2012) Z. H. Shang et al.   RANGELAND JOURNAL

Seed bank persistence and climate change

(2012) Mark K.J. Ooi   SEED SCIENCE RESEARCH

Present and forecasted xeric climatic limits of beech and sessile oak distribution at low altitudes in Central Europe

(2011) Bálint Czúcz et al.   ANNALS OF FOREST SCIENCE

Alpine steppe plant communities of the Tibetan highlands

(2011) Georg Miehe et al.   APPLIED VEGETATION SCIENCE

C4 abundance in an Inner Mongolia grassland system is driven by temperature–moisture interaction, not grazing pressure

(2011) Karl Auerswald et al.   BASIC AND APPLIED ECOLOGY

Grassland restoration on former croplands in Europe: an assessment of applicability of techniques and costs

(2011) Péter Török et al.   BIODIVERSITY AND CONSERVATION

Post-Soviet agricultural change predicts future declines after recent recovery in Eurasian steppe bird populations

(2011) Johannes Kamp et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

Climate, Livestock, and Vegetation: What Drives Fire Increase in the Arid Ecosystems of Southern Russia?

(2011) Maxim Dubinin et al.   ECOSYSTEMS

Effect of grazing on carbon stocks and assimilate partitioning in a Tibetan montane pasture revealed by 13CO2 pulse labeling

(2011) Silke Hafner et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

The effect of grazing management on plant species richness on the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau

(2011) J. Cao et al.   GRASS AND FORAGE SCIENCE

Experimental warming induces degradation of a Tibetan alpine meadow through trophic interactions

(2011) Guoyong Li et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED ECOLOGY

Stipa (Poaceae) and allies in the Old World: molecular phylogenetics realigns genus circumscription and gives evidence on the origin of American and Australian lineages

(2011) Hassan R. Hamasha et al.   PLANT SYSTEMATICS AND EVOLUTION

Spatial analysis of the driving factors of grassland degradation under conditions of climate change and intensive use in Inner Mongolia, China

(2011) Suying Li et al.   Regional Environmental Change

Has water limited our imagination for aridland biogeochemistry?

(2011) Amy T. Austin   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Death by a thousand huts? Effects of household presence on density and distribution of Mongolian gazelles

(2011) Kirk A. Olson et al.   Conservation Letters

The role of plant–soil feedbacks and land-use legacies in restoration of a temperate steppe in northern China

(2010) Lili Jiang et al.   ECOLOGICAL RESEARCH

Yartsa Gunbu (Cordyceps sinensis) and the Fungal Commodification of Tibet’s Rural Economy

(2010) Daniel Winkler   ECONOMIC BOTANY

Conserving a moving target: planning protection for a migratory species as its distribution changes

(2010) Navinder J. Singh et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED ECOLOGY

Inter-annual rainfall variability in Central Asia – A contribution to the discussion on the importance of environmental stochasticity in drylands

(2010) Henrik von Wehrden et al.   JOURNAL OF ARID ENVIRONMENTS

Herbivore effects on above- and belowground plant production and soil nitrogen availability in the Trans-Himalayan shrub-steppes

(2010) Sumanta Bagchi et al.   OECOLOGIA

Plant communities along an elevation gradient under special consideration of grazing in Western Mongolia

(2010) Anne Zemmrich et al.   PHYTOCOENOLOGIA

Nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium nutritional status of semiarid steppe grassland in Inner Mongolia

(2010) Xiao Ying Gong et al.   PLANT AND SOIL

Organic carbon in soils of Central Asia—status quo and potentials for sequestration

(2010) Rolf Sommer et al.   PLANT AND SOIL

Effects of fertilization and irrigation on productivity, plant nutrient contents and soil nutrients in southern Mongolia

(2010) Katrin Ronnenberg et al.   PLANT AND SOIL

Winter and spring warming result in delayed spring phenology on the Tibetan Plateau

(2010) H. Yu et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Rangeland governance in China: overview, impacts on Sunan County in Gansu Province and future options

(2010) M. P. Wang et al.   RANGELAND JOURNAL

Reconstructing long time series of burned areas in arid grasslands of southern Russia by satellite remote sensing

(2010) Maxim Dubinin et al.   REMOTE SENSING OF ENVIRONMENT

Traditional Hunting of Tibetan Antelope, Its Relation to Antelope Migration, and Its Rapid Transformation in the Western Chang Tang Nature Reserve

(2009) Joseph L. Fox et al.   ARCTIC ANTARCTIC AND ALPINE RESEARCH

Steps towards sustainable harvest of Ophiocordyceps sinensis in Bhutan

(2009) Paul F. Cannon et al.   BIODIVERSITY AND CONSERVATION

Recent land cover changes on the Tibetan Plateau: a review

(2009) Xuefeng Cui et al.   CLIMATIC CHANGE

Non-Additive Effects of Water and Nitrogen Addition on Ecosystem Carbon Exchange in a Temperate Steppe

(2009) Shuli Niu et al.   ECOSYSTEMS

Plant Communities, Soil Carbon, and Soil Nitrogen Properties in a Successional Gradient of Sub-Alpine Meadows on the Eastern Tibetan Plateau of China

(2009) Wen-Jin Li et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT

Dual scale trend analysis for evaluating climatic and anthropogenic effects on the vegetated land surface in Russia and Kazakhstan

(2009) K M de Beurs et al.   Environmental Research Letters

The effects of climate, permafrost and fire on vegetation change in Siberia in a changing climate

(2009) N M Tchebakova et al.   Environmental Research Letters

Reanalysis data underestimate significant changes in growing season weather in Kazakhstan

(2009) C K Wright et al.   Environmental Research Letters

Land cover/land use change in semi-arid Inner Mongolia: 1992–2004

(2009) Ranjeet John et al.   Environmental Research Letters

Contingent productivity responses to more extreme rainfall regimes across a grassland biome

(2009) JANA L. HEISLER-WHITE et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Post-Soviet steppe management causes pronounced synanthropy in the globally threatened Sociable LapwingVanellus gregarius

(2009) JOHANNES KAMP et al.   IBIS

Grazers on the plains: challenges and prospects for large herbivores in Central Asia

(2009) David P. Mallon et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED ECOLOGY

Climate and environmental change in arid Central Asia: Impacts, vulnerability, and adaptations

(2009) E. Lioubimtseva et al.   JOURNAL OF ARID ENVIRONMENTS

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

A mega-herd of more than 200,000 Mongolian gazelles Procapra gutturosa: a consequence of habitat quality

(2009) Kirk A. Olson et al.   ORYX

Tibetan antelope Pantholops hodgsonii conservation and new rangeland management policies in the western Chang Tang Nature Reserve, Tibet: is fencing creating an impasse?

(2009) Joseph L. Fox et al.   ORYX

A global assessment of endemism and species richness across island and mainland regions

(2009) G. Kier et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Climate and environmental dynamics of the mid- to late Holocene settlement in the Tobol–Ishim forest-steppe region, West Siberia

(2009) Viktor A. Zakh et al.   QUATERNARY INTERNATIONAL

Status and Dynamics of the Kobresia pygmaea Ecosystem on the Tibetan Plateau

(2008) Georg Miehe et al.   AMBIO

Turf-bearing topsoils on the central Tibetan Plateau, China: Pedology, botany, geochronology

(2008) Knut Kaiser et al.   CATENA

Desertification in China: An assessment

(2008) Xunming Wang et al.   EARTH-SCIENCE REVIEWS

Resource selection by sympatric wild equids in the Mongolian Gobi

(2008) P. Kaczensky et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED ECOLOGY

Inter-Annual Changes in Vegetation Activities and Their Relationship to Temperature and Precipitation in Central Asia from 1982 to 2003

(2008) P.A. Propastin   Journal of Environmental Informatics

Global response patterns of terrestrial plant species to nitrogen addition

(2008) Jianyang Xia et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Domestication and early agriculture in the Mediterranean Basin: Origins, diffusion, and impact

(2008) M. A. Zeder   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA