Long-term grazing exclusion greatly improve carbon and nitrogen store in an alpine meadow on the northern Qinghai-Tibet Plateau

L Dai, R Fu, X Guo, Y Du, L Lin, F Zhang, Y Li, G Cao - Catena, 2021 - Elsevier
Grazing management is known to be one of the most important strategies for regulating plant
community structure and soil carbon and nitrogen content for alpine meadows, but very few …

Effects of grazing regime on vegetation structure, productivity, soil quality, carbon and nitrogen storage of alpine meadow on the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau

W Li, W Cao, J Wang, X Li, C Xu, S Shi - Ecological Engineering, 2017 - Elsevier
Grazing regime has an important effect on grassland ecosystem. however, the mechanisms
how alpine meadow vegetation, soil quality responds to this management regime remain …

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

D Xiong, P Shi, Y Sun, J Wu, X Zhang - Chinese geographical science, 2014 - Springer
Grazing exclusion is widely adopted in restoring degraded alpine grasslands on the Qinghai-
Tibetan Plateau. However, its effectiveness remains poorly understood. In this study, we …

Effects of long-term grazing exclusion on vegetation structure, soil water holding capacity, carbon and nitrogen sequestration capacity in an alpine meadow on the …

Y Yang, F Zhang, X Xie, J Wang, Y Li, X Huang… - Journal of Mountain …, 2023 - Springer
Grazing exclusion is one of the primary management practices used to restore degraded
grasslands on the Tibetan Plateau. However, to date, the effects of long-term grazing …

Does grazing exclusion improve soil carbon and nitrogen stocks in alpine grasslands on the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau? A meta-analysis

X Liu, H Sheng, Z Wang, Z Ma, X Huang, L Li - Sustainability, 2020 - mdpi.com
Grazing exclusion has been widely used to restore the degraded alpine grasslands on the
Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau (QTP). However, the dynamics of soil organic carbon (SOC) and …

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

XM Shi, XG Li, CT Li, Y Zhao, ZH Shang, Q Ma - Ecological Engineering, 2013 - Elsevier
Grazing exclusion has been proposed as a choice for restoring degraded grasslands on the
Qinghai–Tibetan Plateau, but its effects on soil properties are not clear. The present study …

Effects of grazing on the soil properties and C and N storage in relation to biomass allocation in an alpine meadow

L Wei, H Hai-Zhou, Z Zhi-Nan… - Journal of soil science and …, 2011 - SciELO Chile
Livestock grazing is one of the most important factors influencing the above-ground
community composition and structure in a natural grassland ecosystem. Different grazing …

Effects of different intensities of long-term grazing on plant diversity, biomass and carbon stock in alpine shrubland on the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau

J Wang, W Li, W Cao, S Wang - PeerJ, 2022 - peerj.com
Grazing is the main grassland management strategy applied in alpine shrubland
ecosystems on the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau. However, how different intensities of long-term …

Warm‐season grazing benefits species diversity conservation and topsoil nutrient sequestration in alpine meadow

W Gao‐Lin, W Dong, L Yu, D Lu‐Ming… - Land Degradation & …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Seasonal grazing is one way of the moderate grazing regimes, but little information is
available on compared study of seasonal grazing in alpine meadow. We studied the …

Soil and plant community characteristics under long-term continuous grazing of different intensities in an alpine meadow on the Tibetan plateau

Y Du, X Ke, X Guo, G Cao, H Zhou - Biochemical Systematics and Ecology, 2019 - Elsevier
Soil and community characteristics, and their driving factors, were poorly understood in
terms of grazing intensity in alpine meadow regions on the Tibetan plateau. We investigated …