Climate warming reduces the temporal stability of plant community biomass production

Z Ma, H Liu, Z Mi, Z Zhang, Y Wang, W Xu… - Nature …, 2017 - nature.com
Anthropogenic climate change has emerged as a critical environmental problem, prompting
frequent investigations into its consequences for various ecological systems. Few studies …

Experimental warming causes mismatches in alpine plant-microbe-fauna phenology

R Yin, W Qin, X Wang, D Xie, H Wang, H Zhao… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Long-term observations have shown that many plants and aboveground animals have
changed their phenology patterns due to warmer temperatures over the past decades …

Climate warming alters subsoil but not topsoil carbon dynamics in alpine grassland

J Jia, Z Cao, C Liu, Z Zhang, LI Lin… - Global Change …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Subsoil contains more than half of soil organic carbon (SOC) globally and is conventionally
assumed to be relatively unresponsive to warming compared to the topsoil. Here, we show …

Interannual climate variability and altered precipitation influence the soil microbial community structure in a Tibetan Plateau grassland

Y Shi, K Zhang, Q Li, X Liu, JS He, H Chu - Science of the Total …, 2020 - Elsevier
Climate change could influence aboveground and belowground plant community diversity
and structure profoundly. However, our understanding of the responses of microbial …

Effects of short-term warming and altered precipitation on soil microbial communities in alpine grassland of the Tibetan Plateau

K Zhang, YU Shi, X Jing, JS He, R Sun… - Frontiers in …, 2016 - frontiersin.org
Soil microbial communities are influenced by climate change drivers such as warming and
altered precipitation. These changes create abiotic stresses, including desiccation and …

[HTML][HTML] Respiration of Russian soils: Climatic drivers and response to climate change

L Mukhortova, D Schepaschenko… - Science of the Total …, 2021 - Elsevier
Soil respiration is one of the major ecosystem carbon fluxes and has a strong relationship
with climate. We quantified this dependence for the Russian territory based on coupling …

Precipitation consistently promotes, but temperature inversely drives, biomass production in temperate vs. alpine grasslands

W Wu, R Sun, L Liu, X Liu, H Yu, Q Ma, M Qi, L Li… - Agricultural and Forest …, 2023 - Elsevier
Comparisons of vegetation production between temperate and alpine grasslands are not
well studied, and the understanding of the underlying mechanisms is still incomplete. To …

Effects and relationships of grazing intensity on multiple ecosystem services in the Inner Mongolian steppe

F Fan, C Liang, Y Tang, I Harker-Schuch… - Science of the Total …, 2019 - Elsevier
Grassland ecosystems are one of the most important terrestrial ecosystems in the world,
producing essential both goods and ecosystem services (ES) for human beings. The Inner …

Warming reduced flowering synchrony and extended community flowering season in an alpine meadow on the Tibetan Plateau

Y Chen, SL Collins, Y Zhao, T Zhang, X Yang, H An… - Ecology, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
The timing of phenological events is highly sensitive to climate change, and may influence
ecosystem structure and function. Although changes in flowering phenology among species …

Substantial non‐growing season carbon dioxide loss across Tibetan alpine permafrost region

Q Li, Y Liu, D Kou, Y Peng, Y Yang - Global Change Biology, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
One of the major uncertainties for projecting permafrost carbon (C)‐climate feedback is a
poor representation of the non‐growing season carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions under a …