Effects of grazing on ecosystem structure and function of alpine grasslands in Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau: a synthesis

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The role of dew in the monsoon season assessed via stable isotopes in an alpine meadow in Northern Tibet

(2015) Siyuan He et al.   ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH

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(2015) Gao-Lin Wu et al.   ECOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS

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(2015) Luis López-Mársico et al.   PLANT AND SOIL

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

(2015) Xuyang Lu et al.   Ecology and Evolution

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

Plant Species Richness, Evenness, and Composition along Environmental Gradients in an Alpine Meadow Grazing Ecosystem in Central Tibet, China

(2014) Tsechoe Dorji et al.   ARCTIC ANTARCTIC AND ALPINE RESEARCH

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

Plant genetic diversity and grazing management on the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau: A case study of a dominant native wheatgrass (Elymus nutans)

(2014) Deng-Tan Ma et al.   BIOCHEMICAL SYSTEMATICS AND ECOLOGY

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

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

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(2014) Sally E. Koerner et al.   ECOLOGY

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(2014) Phesheya Dlamini et al.   GEODERMA

Spatial and temporal variability in the net primary production of alpine grassland on the Tibetan Plateau since 1982

(2014) Yili Zhang et al.   Journal of Geographical Sciences

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

(2014) Jian Sun et al.   PLoS One

Stoichiometry of Root and Leaf Nitrogen and Phosphorus in a Dry Alpine Steppe on the Northern Tibetan Plateau

(2014) Jiangtao Hong et al.   PLoS One

Identifying response groups of soil nitrifiers and denitrifiers to grazing and associated soil environmental drivers in Tibetan alpine meadows

(2014) Zhen Xie et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

Response of Soil Respiration to Grazing in an Alpine Meadow at Three Elevations in Tibet

(2014) Gang Fu et al.   TheScientificWorldJOURNAL

Effects of long-term protection from grazing on phenotypic expression in geographically separated mountain rough fescue populations

(2013) D. J. Thompson et al.   CANADIAN JOURNAL OF PLANT SCIENCE

Grazing exclusion decreases soil organic C storage at an alpine grassland of the Qinghai–Tibetan Plateau

(2013) Xiao-Ming Shi et al.   ECOLOGICAL ENGINEERING

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(2013) Anna Villnäs et al.   ECOLOGY

Effects of grazing on grassland soil carbon: a global review

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

Satellite observed widespread decline in Mongolian grasslands largely due to overgrazing

(2013) Thomas Hilker et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

The effects of fencing on carbon stocks in the degraded alpine grasslands of the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau

(2013) Yuanyuan Li et al.   JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT

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

(2013) Liang Yan et al.   PLoS One

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

Effects of grazing and fencing on carbon and nitrogen reserves in plants and soils of alpine meadow in the three headwater resource regions

(2013) Yuejun Fan et al.   RUSSIAN JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Decoupling the spread of grasslands from the evolution of grazer-type herbivores in South America

(2013) Caroline A.E. Strömberg et al.   Nature Communications

Gross Nitrification and Denitrification in Alpine Grassland Ecosystems on the Tibetan Plateau

(2012) Xuyang Lu et al.   ARCTIC ANTARCTIC AND ALPINE RESEARCH

Biomass estimation of alpine grasslands under different grazing intensities using spectral vegetation indices

(2012) Minjie Duan et al.   CANADIAN JOURNAL OF REMOTE SENSING

Moderate grazing can promote aboveground primary production of grassland under water stress

(2012) Geping Luo et al.   Ecological Complexity

Response of microbial biomass to grazing in an alpine meadow along an elevation gradient on the Tibetan Plateau

(2012) Gang Fu et al.   EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF SOIL BIOLOGY

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(2012) Devan A. McGranahan et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED ECOLOGY

Short-term degradation of semiarid grasslands-results from a controlled-grazing experiment in Northern China

(2012) Martin Wiesmeier et al.   JOURNAL OF PLANT NUTRITION AND SOIL 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

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(2012) Zhongling Yang et al.   OECOLOGIA

Responses of CO2, CH4 and N2O fluxes to livestock exclosure in an alpine steppe on the Tibetan Plateau, China

(2012) Da Wei et al.   PLANT AND SOIL

Annual ring widths are good predictors of changes in net primary productivity of alpine Rhododendron shrubs in the Sergyemla Mountains, southeast Tibet

(2012) Gaoqiang Kong et al.   PLANT ECOLOGY

Comparative analyses of leaf anatomy of dicotyledonous species in Tibetan and Inner Mongolian grasslands

(2012) JianJing Ma et al.   Science China-Life Sciences

Soil-Quality Effects of Grassland Degradation and Restoration on the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau

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Short-term responses of native bees to livestock and implications for managing ecosystem services in grasslands

(2012) Chiho Kimoto et al.   Ecosphere

Functional diversity of species-rich managed grasslands in response to fertility, defoliation and temperature

(2011) Michel Duru et al.   BASIC AND APPLIED ECOLOGY

Response of long-, medium- and short-term processes of the carbon budget to overgrazing-induced crusts in the Tibetan Plateau

(2011) Sebastian Unteregelsbacher et al.   BIOGEOCHEMISTRY

The responses of grassland plants to experimentally simulated climate change depend on land use and region

(2011) Astrid Bütof et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

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

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(2011) G. Miehe et al.   JOURNAL OF ARID ENVIRONMENTS

Warming and grazing affect soil labile carbon and nitrogen pools differently in an alpine meadow of the Qinghai–Tibet Plateau in China

(2011) Yichao Rui et al.   JOURNAL OF SOILS AND SEDIMENTS

Impact of historic grazing on steppe soils on the northern Tibetan Plateau

(2011) Xiaodan Wang et al.   PLANT AND SOIL

Using Remote Sensing and GIS Technologies to Estimate Grass Yield and Livestock Carrying Capacity of Alpine Grasslands in Golog Prefecture, China

(2010) Long YU et al.   PEDOSPHERE

Long-term fencing improved soil properties and soil organic carbon storage in an alpine swamp meadow of western China

(2010) Gao-Lin Wu et al.   PLANT AND SOIL

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(2009) Xuefeng Cui et al.   CLIMATIC CHANGE

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(2009) Miaojun Ma et al.   FLORA

Elevation dependency of recent and future minimum surface air temperature trends in the Tibetan Plateau and its surroundings

(2009) Xiaodong Liu et al.   GLOBAL AND PLANETARY CHANGE

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

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

(2009) Kechang Niu et al.   PLANT AND SOIL

Alpine grassland degradation index and its response to recent climate variability in Northern Tibet, China

(2009) Qing-zhu Gao et al.   QUATERNARY INTERNATIONAL

Livestock grazing, plateau pikas and the conservation of avian biodiversity on the Tibetan plateau

(2008) Anthony D. Arthur et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

The allometry of reproductive biomass in response to land use in Tibetan alpine grasslands

(2008) Kechang Niu et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Non-linear relationships between grazing pressure and conservation of soil resources in Patagonian Monte shrublands

(2008) A.J. Bisigato et al.   JOURNAL OF ARID ENVIRONMENTS

Response ofPolygonum viviparumSpecies and Community Level to Long-term Livestock Grazing in Alpine Shrub Meadow in Qinghai-Tibet Plateau

(2008) Zhi-Hong Zhu et al.   Journal of Integrative Plant Biology

Assessment of grassland degradation in Guinan county, Qinghai Province, China, in the past 30 years

(2008) Y. FENG et al.   LAND DEGRADATION & DEVELOPMENT