The effects of grassland degradation on plant diversity, primary productivity, and soil fertility in the alpine region of Asia’s headwaters

The effects of biotic and abiotic factors on the spatial heterogeneity of alpine grassland vegetation at a small scale on the Qinghai–Tibet Plateau (QTP), China

(2013) Lu Wen et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING AND ASSESSMENT

Warming effects on the early decomposition of three litter types, Eastern Tibetan Plateau, China

(2012) Z. F. Xu et al.   EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF SOIL SCIENCE

Complexity of multitrophic interactions in a grassland ecosystem depends on plant species diversity

(2012) Michael Rzanny et al.   JOURNAL OF ANIMAL ECOLOGY

Plant Species Richness and Ecosystem Multifunctionality in Global Drylands

(2012) F. T. Maestre et al.   SCIENCE

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

(2012) S. K. Dong et al.   SOIL SCIENCE SOCIETY OF AMERICA JOURNAL

Effects of selected root exudate components on soil bacterial communities

(2011) Shengjing Shi et al.   FEMS MICROBIOLOGY ECOLOGY

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

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

Plant production, and carbon and nitrogen source pools, are strongly intensified by experimental warming in alpine ecosystems in the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau

(2011) Li Na et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

Effects of biodiversity and plant community composition on productivity in semiarid grasslands of Hulunbeir, Inner Mongolia, China

(2010) Xiao-Xuan Zheng et al.   Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Climate changes and its impact on tundra ecosystem in Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, China

(2010) Genxu Wang et al.   CLIMATIC CHANGE

A new method for detecting and interpreting biodiversity and ecological community thresholds

(2010) Matthew E. Baker et al.   Methods in Ecology and Evolution

Soil fertility, heterogeneity, and microbes: towards an integrated understanding of grassland structure and dynamics

(2009) Heather L. Reynolds et al.   APPLIED VEGETATION SCIENCE

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

Vegetation composition promotes carbon and nitrogen storage in model grassland communities of contrasting soil fertility

(2009) Gerlinde B. De Deyn et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Influence of plant species and soil conditions on plant-soil feedback in mixed grassland communities

(2009) Kathryn A. Harrison et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Changes in plant diversity, biomass and soil C, in alpine meadows at different degradation stages in the headwater region of three rivers, China

(2009) C. T. Wang et al.   LAND DEGRADATION & DEVELOPMENT

Does grassland vegetation drive soil microbial diversity?

(2009) P. Millard et al.   NUTRIENT CYCLING IN AGROECOSYSTEMS

Establishment of Elymus natans improves soil quality of a heavily degraded alpine meadow in Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau, China

(2009) Ruizhang Feng et al.   PLANT AND SOIL

Significant Achievements in Protection and Restoration of Alpine Grassland Ecosystem in Northern Tibet, China

(2009) Qing-zhu Gao et al.   RESTORATION ECOLOGY

Effect of fencing, artificial seeding and abandonment on vegetation composition and dynamics of ‘black soil land’ in the headwaters of the Yangtze and the Yellow Rivers of the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau

(2008) Z. H. Shang et al.   LAND DEGRADATION & DEVELOPMENT

Depopulating the Tibetan Grasslands

(2008) J. Marc Foggin   MOUNTAIN RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT

Loss of plant species after chronic low-level nitrogen deposition to prairie grasslands

(2008) Christopher M. Clark et al.   NATURE

Degraded vegetation and wind erosion influence soil carbon, nitrogen and phosphorus accumulation in sandy grasslands

(2008) Feng-Rui Li et al.   PLANT AND SOIL

Land use change and its driving forces on the Tibetan Plateau during 1990–2000

(2007) Xiuhong Wang et al.   CATENA