Highlights•The sustainable grazing management should focus on the biodiversity
conservation and the maintenance of ecosystem multifunctionality.•Grazing effects on …

Abstract The Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau—known as the roof of the world and the water tower
of Asia—is facing serious degradation of its ecosystems, with alpine meadows being …

Alpine meadow degradation has become serious in recent decades due to the combined
effects of overgrazing, human activities and rodents, but very few studies focus on the …

Shrub encroachment is advancing in alpine meadow ecosystems under climate warming,
which can alter meadow community and soil properties. Given the key role of alpine …

Background and aims In recent decades, an increasing proportion of alpine shrub meadow
has become severely degraded owing to the combined effects of global climate warming …

Simple Summary Increasing attacks on animal agriculture have forced many people to
question the use of animals for food. Grazing livestock are part of a sustainable agricultural …

Grazing exclusion has been implemented worldwide as a nature-based solution for
restoring degraded grassland ecosystems that arise from overgrazing. However, the effect of …

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 …

Current studies regarding the effects of grassland management strategies on the soil
nutrient cycle have mostly focused on soil organic carbon (SOC). Less is known about the …

Grassland plants allocate photosynthetically fixed carbon (C) belowground to root biomass
and rhizodeposition, but also to support arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF). These C …