Abstract With 450,000 km 2 Kobresia (syn. Carex) pygmaea dominated pastures in the
eastern Tibetan highlands are the world's largest pastoral alpine ecosystem forming a …

Agroforestry is a sustainable land use system with a promising potential to sequester
atmospheric carbon into soil. This system of land use distinguishes itself from the other …

Climate change and human activities have already caused degradation in a large fraction of
vegetation on the Qinghai‐Tibetan Plateau (QTP). Many studies report that climate variability …

Vegetation degradation, due to climate change and human activities, changes the biomass,
vegetation species composition, and soil nutrient input sources and thus affects soil nutrient …

Maintaining sufficient farmland to ensure food security and a strong rural economy is crucial
for China. At the national as well as regional levels, we compared the quality of the land …

Patchy alpine grassland with soil excavated by plateau pika (Ochotona curzoniae) and with
bald patches is common on the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau (QTP) where desertification has …

The mechanisms of litter decomposition, translocation and stabilization into soil layers are
fundamental processes in the functioning of the ecosystem, as they regulate the cycle of soil …

Plateau pikas (Ochotona curzoniae) bioturbation affects the soil nutrient concentrations of
the alpine meadow in the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau (QTP) by the arrangement of bare land …

Collapsing gullies are one of the most serious soil erosion problems in the tropical and
subtropical areas of southern China. However, few studies have been performed on the …

Carbon accumulation is an important research topic for grassland restoration. It is requisite
to determine the dynamics of the soil carbon pools [soil organic carbon (SOC) and soil …