Effects of long‐term mowing on species diversity, biomass and composition of plant community in a semi‐arid grassland in northeastern China

Large herbivores facilitate a dominant grassland forb via multiple indirect effects

(2022) Zhiwei Zhong et al.   ECOLOGY

Short-Term Abandonment versus Mowing in a Mediterranean-Temperate Meadow: Effects on Floristic Composition, Plant Functionality, and Soil Properties—A Case Study

(2022) Francesca Vannucchi et al.   Agriculture-Basel

Grassland plant and invertebrate species richness increases from mowing are mediated by impacts on soil chemistry

(2022) Mark A.K. Gillespie et al.   BASIC AND APPLIED ECOLOGY

Soil engineering by ants facilitates plant compensation for large herbivore removal of aboveground biomass

(2021) Zhiwei Zhong et al.   ECOLOGY

Effects of grazing on C:N:P stoichiometry attenuate from soils to plants and insect herbivores in a semi-arid grassland

(2021) Nazim Hassan et al.   OECOLOGIA

Long‐term cross‐scale comparison of grazing and mowing on plant diversity and community composition in a salt‐marsh system

(2021) Qingqing Chen et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Annual mowing has the potential to reduce the invasion of herbaceous Lupinus polyphyllus

(2020) Satu Ramula   BIOLOGICAL INVASIONS

Phosphorus and mowing improve native alfalfa establishment, facilitating restoration of grassland productivity and diversity

(2019) Jiqiong Zhou et al.   LAND DEGRADATION & DEVELOPMENT

Plant production decreases whereas nutrients concentration increases in response to the decrease of mowing stubble height

(2019) Zhaoping Yang et al.   JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT

Annual mowing maintains plant diversity in threatened temperate grasslands

(2018) Annabel L. Smith et al.   APPLIED VEGETATION SCIENCE

Similar effects of different mowing frequencies on the conservation value of semi-natural grasslands in Europe

(2018) Malin Tälle et al.   BIODIVERSITY AND CONSERVATION

Large herbivores influence plant litter decomposition by altering soil properties and plant quality in a meadow steppe

(2018) Zhongnan Wang et al.   Scientific Reports

Evidence for the primacy of living root inputs, not root or shoot litter, in forming soil organic carbon

(2018) Noah W. Sokol et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Negative effects of vertebrate on invertebrate herbivores mediated by enhanced plant nitrogen content

(2018) Yu Zhu et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Ecosystem engineering strengthens bottom-up and weakens top-down effects via trait-mediated indirect interactions

(2017) Zhiwei Zhong et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Grazing vs. mowing: A meta-analysis of biodiversity benefits for grassland management

(2016) Malin Tälle et al.   AGRICULTURE ECOSYSTEMS & ENVIRONMENT

Long-term effects of mowing on plasticity and allometry of Leymus chinensis in a temperate semi-arid grassland, China

(2016) Xiliang Li et al.   Journal of Arid Land

Influence of Different Mowing Systems on Community Characteristics and the Compensatory Growth of Important Species of the Stipa grandis Steppe in Inner Mongolia

(2016) Zhiqiang Wan et al.   Sustainability

Integrating plant litter quality, soil organic matter stabilization, and the carbon saturation concept

(2015) Michael J. Castellano et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Impacts of grazing by different large herbivores in grassland depend on plant species diversity

(2015) Jun Liu et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED ECOLOGY

Effects of apical meristem mining on plant fitness, architecture, and flowering phenology in Cirsium altissimum (Asteraceae)

(2014) S. Adhikari et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF BOTANY

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

(2014) Andrea Catorci et al.   APPLIED VEGETATION SCIENCE

Scale- and time-dependent effects of fertilization, mowing and dominant removal on a grassland community during a 15-year experiment

(2014) Jan Lepš   JOURNAL OF APPLIED ECOLOGY

Combined effects of nitrogen addition and litter manipulation on nutrient resorption ofLeymus chinensisin a semi-arid grassland of northern China

(2014) X. Li et al.   PLANT BIOLOGY

Effects of land use on soil respiration in the temperate steppe of Inner Mongolia, China

(2014) Ji-Rui Gong et al.   SOIL & TILLAGE RESEARCH

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

(2013) Zhiwei Zhong et al.   ECOLOGY

Stronger Short-Term Effects of Mowing Than Extreme Summer Weather on a Subalpine Grassland

(2013) Marie-Lise Benot et al.   ECOSYSTEMS

A quantitative index of land-use intensity in grasslands: Integrating mowing, grazing and fertilization

(2012) Nico Blüthgen et al.   BASIC AND APPLIED ECOLOGY

Is regular mowing the most appropriate and cost-effective management maintaining diversity and biomass of target forbs in mountain hay meadows?

(2012) Orsolya Valkó et al.   FLORA

Ecosystem responses to mowing manipulations in an arid Inner Mongolia steppe: An energy perspective

(2012) C. Shao et al.   JOURNAL OF ARID ENVIRONMENTS

Effect of long-term cutting versus abandonment on the vegetation of a mountain hay meadow (Polygono-Trisetion) in Central Europe

(2011) Lenka Pavlů et al.   FLORA

Explaining grassland biomass - the contribution of climate, species and functional diversity depends on fertilization and mowing frequency

(2011) Markus Bernhardt-Römermann et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED ECOLOGY

Short-term changes caused by fire and mowing in BrazilianCamposgrasslands with different long-term fire histories

(2011) Alessandra Fidelis et al.   JOURNAL OF VEGETATION SCIENCE

Changes in wet meadow vegetation after 20 years of different management in a field experiment (North-West Germany)

(2009) Kathrin Poptcheva et al.   AGRICULTURE ECOSYSTEMS & ENVIRONMENT

Reversed effects of grazing on plant diversity: the role of below-ground competition and size symmetry

(2009) Felix May et al.   OIKOS

Changes over three decades in the floristic composition of nutrient-poor grasslands in the Swiss Alps

(2008) Markus Peter et al.   BIODIVERSITY AND CONSERVATION

CONSEQUENCES OF DOMINANCE: A REVIEW OF EVENNESS EFFECTS ON LOCAL AND REGIONAL ECOSYSTEM PROCESSES

(2008) Helmut Hillebrand et al.   ECOLOGY

Ecology of meadow steppe in northeast China

(2008) D. Wang et al.   RANGELAND JOURNAL