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One-year grazing exclusion remarkably restores degraded alpine meadow at Zoige, eastern Tibetan Plateau

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Enhancing sustainability of grassland ecosystems through ecological restoration and grazing management in an era of climate change on Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau

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Short-term grazing exclusion improved topsoil conditions and plant characteristics in degraded alpine grasslands

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Grazing exclusion erodes the forbs functional group without altering offspring recruitment composition in a typical steppe

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Verification of the biomass transfer hypothesis under moderate grazing across the Tibetan plateau: a meta-analysis

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

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Integrative modelling reveals mechanisms linking productivity and plant species richness

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Integrating ecosystem functions into restoration ecology-recent advances and future directions

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Simulation of the Grazing Effects on Grassland Aboveground Net Primary Production Using DNDC Model Combined with Time-Series Remote Sensing Data—A Case Study in Zoige Plateau, China

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