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

Mongolian rangelands at a tipping point? Biomass and cover are stable but composition shifts and richness declines after 20 years of grazing and increasing temperatures

(2015) J. Khishigbayar et al.   JOURNAL OF ARID ENVIRONMENTS

Dynamic of grassland vegetation degradation and its quantitative assessment in the northwest China

(2014) Wei Zhou et al.   ACTA OECOLOGICA-INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

The impact of climate change and anthropogenic activities on alpine grassland over the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau

(2014) Baoxiong Chen et al.   AGRICULTURAL AND FOREST METEOROLOGY

Effects of grazing exclusion on plant productivity and soil carbon, nitrogen storage in alpine meadows in northern Tibet, China

(2014) Dingpeng Xiong et al.   Chinese Geographical Science

Different grazing removal exclosures effects on soil C stocks among alpine ecosystems in east Qinghai–Tibet Plateau

(2014) Junwei Luan et al.   ECOLOGICAL ENGINEERING

Differentiating climate- and human-induced drivers of grassland degradation in the Liao River Basin, China

(2014) Chunyang He et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING AND ASSESSMENT

When do grazers accelerate or decelerate soil carbon and nitrogen cycling in tundra? A test of theory on grazing effects in fertile and infertile habitats

(2014) Sari Stark et al.   OIKOS

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

(2014) Jian Sun et al.   PLoS One

N balance and cycling of Inner Mongolia typical steppe: a comprehensive case study of grazing effects

(2013) M. Giese et al.   ECOLOGICAL MONOGRAPHS

Assessing the soil quality of alpine grasslands in the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau using a modified soil quality index

(2013) Yuanyuan Li et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING AND ASSESSMENT

Effects of grazing on grassland soil carbon: a global review

(2013) Megan E. McSherry et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

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

(2013) Huai Chen et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

The effects of enclosures and land-use contracts on rangeland degradation on the Qinghai–Tibetan plateau

(2013) Jianjun Cao et al.   JOURNAL OF ARID ENVIRONMENTS

The effects of grazing depend on productivity, and what else?

(2013) Gerhard E. Overbeck   JOURNAL OF VEGETATION SCIENCE

Variation of grazing-induced vegetation changes across a large-scale productivity gradient

(2013) Felipe Lezama et al.   JOURNAL OF VEGETATION SCIENCE

An integrated perspective to explain nitrogen mineralization in grazed ecosystems

(2013) Maarten Schrama et al.   PERSPECTIVES IN PLANT ECOLOGY EVOLUTION AND SYSTEMATICS

Effects of Different Grazing Intensities on Grassland Production in China: A Meta-Analysis

(2013) Liang Yan et al.   PLoS One

Climate Change Adaptation Among Tibetan Pastoralists: Challenges in Enhancing Local Adaptation Through Policy Support

(2012) Yao Fu et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT

Grazing increases the temperature sensitivity of soil organic matter decomposition in a temperate grassland

(2012) Jorge Paz-Ferreiro et al.   Environmental Research Letters

Responses of the functional structure of soil microbial community to livestock grazing in the Tibetan alpine grassland

(2012) Yunfeng Yang et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Effects of topography and human activity on the net primary productivity (NPP) of alpine grassland in northern Tibet from 1981 to 2004

(2012) Qingzhu Gao et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF REMOTE SENSING

Grazing alters ecosystem functioning and C:N:P stoichiometry of grasslands along a regional precipitation gradient

(2012) Yongfei Bai et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED ECOLOGY

Warming and grazing increase mineralization of organic P in an alpine meadow ecosystem of Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, China

(2012) Yichao Rui et al.   PLANT AND SOIL

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

(2012) J. Addison et al.   RANGELAND JOURNAL

Grazing management impacts on vegetation, soil biota and soil chemical, physical and hydrological properties in tall grass prairie

(2011) W.R. Teague et al.   AGRICULTURE ECOSYSTEMS & ENVIRONMENT

Global assessment of the non-equilibrium concept in rangelands

(2011) Henrik von Wehrden et al.   ECOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS

Root biomass distribution in alpine ecosystems of the northern Tibetan Plateau

(2011) Xiaojia Li et al.   Environmental Earth Sciences

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

Impact of rainfall variability and grazing pressure on plant diversity in Mongolian grasslands

(2011) Y. Cheng et al.   JOURNAL OF ARID ENVIRONMENTS

Improving land surface temperature modeling for dry land of China

(2011) Yingying Chen et al.   JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH

RANGELAND DEGRADATION ON THE QINGHAI-TIBET PLATEAU: IMPLICATIONS FOR REHABILITATION

(2011) X.-L. Li et al.   LAND DEGRADATION & DEVELOPMENT

Nitrogen inputs accelerate phosphorus cycling rates across a wide variety of terrestrial ecosystems

(2011) Alison R. Marklein et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Phosphorus Dynamics: From Soil to Plant

(2011) J. Shen et al.   PLANT PHYSIOLOGY

Influence of Collembola on nitrogen mineralization varies with soil moisture content

(2011) Satoshi Kaneda et al.   SOIL SCIENCE AND PLANT NUTRITION

Grazing intensity impacts soil carbon and nitrogen storage of continental steppe

(2011) N. P. He et al.   Ecosphere

Effects of large herbivore exclusion on southern Mongolian desert steppes

(2010) Karsten Wesche et al.   ACTA OECOLOGICA-INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Effects of grazing and livestock exclusion on soil physical and chemical properties in desertified sandy grassland, Inner Mongolia, northern China

(2010) Yuqiang Li et al.   Environmental Earth Sciences

A critical review of the conventional SOC to SOM conversion factor

(2010) Douglas W. Pribyl   GEODERMA

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

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

Effects of grazing exclusion on soil net nitrogen mineralization and nitrogen availability in a temperate steppe in northern China

(2010) Changhui Wang 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

Pathways of Grazing Effects on Soil Organic Carbon and Nitrogen

(2010) Gervasio Piñeiro et al.   Rangeland Ecology & Management

Ecosystem carbon stocks and their changes in China’s grasslands

(2010) JingYun Fang et al.   Science China-Life Sciences

Temperature sensitivity of soil organic matter decomposition—what do we know?

(2009) Margit von Lützow et al.   BIOLOGY AND FERTILITY OF SOILS

Recent land cover changes on the Tibetan Plateau: a review

(2009) Xuefeng Cui et al.   CLIMATIC CHANGE

Defoliation and patchy nutrient return drive grazing effects on plant and soil properties in a dairy cow pasture

(2009) J. Mikola et al.   ECOLOGICAL MONOGRAPHS

Allocation of vegetation biomass across a climate-related gradient in the grasslands of Inner Mongolia

(2009) J.W. Fan 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

Grazing triggers soil carbon loss by altering plant roots and their control on soil microbial community

(2009) Katja Klumpp et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Grazing-induced changes in plant species composition affect plant and soil properties of grassland mesocosms

(2009) María Semmartin et al.   PLANT AND SOIL

Influence of historic sheep grazing on vegetation and soil properties of a Desert Steppe in Inner Mongolia

(2008) Chunli Li et al.   AGRICULTURE ECOSYSTEMS & ENVIRONMENT

Desertification in China: An assessment

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

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

(2008) Yongfei Bai et al.   ECOLOGY

The sensitivity of annual grassland carbon cycling to the quantity and timing of rainfall

(2008) WENDY W. CHOU et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Storage, patterns and controls of soil organic carbon in the Tibetan grasslands

(2008) YUANHE YANG et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Effect of fencing and grazing on a Kobresia-dominated meadow in the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau

(2008) Gao-Lin Wu et al.   PLANT AND SOIL

Belowground net primary productivity and biomass allocation of a grassland in Inner Mongolia is affected by grazing intensity

(2008) Ying Zhi Gao et al.   PLANT AND SOIL

Grazing effects on soil chemical and physical properties in a semiarid steppe of Inner Mongolia (P.R. China)

(2007) Markus Steffens et al.   GEODERMA