Aims The karst ecosystem in southwest China is fragile and easily degraded by disturbance.
However, the process and mechanism of karst shrub tussock responding to grazing …

Karst region of Southwest China is ecologically very fragile. It has been suffering from
severe rock-desertification and its vegetation has been damaging heavily. The restoration or …

Aims The karst vegetation in southwestern China, growing in a harsh environment, is a
specific ecosystem that can lead to land degradation and rocky desertification under human …

Aims Degraded karst ecosystems appear around the world and include the European
Dinaric Karst and the South China Karst. The relationship between karst habitats and …

Objective: To study the growth and biomass allocation strategies of different photosynthetic
plants in different rocky desertification habitats in karst, so as to provide references for the …

Aims The aims are to characterize key plant functional traits and their interactions of woody
species growing in special and harsh karst habitats, and to explore their potential ways in …

Karst rocky desertification (KRD) is one of the biggest challenges in the karst ecological
restoration of Southwest China, and a thorough understanding of the plant community …

In order to explore the relationship between the aboveground biomass of karst secondary
forest land and environmental factors, we took the typical secondary forest sample of karst …

Understory vegetation is an important component in most forest ecosystems. It is very
important for soil and water conservation in karst region, study on understory will provide …

Karst forest is a special forest ecosystem with rich biodiversity. In the Karst forest in Maolan
National Nature Reserve, Guizhou Province, we investigated the quantitative characteristics …