Connections between locusts and people date back millennia and locusts remain a major
food security challenge today throughout the world. Locust biology is often linked to abiotic …

Grasslands in northern China and the Qinghai-Tibetan plateau are particularly important to
both ecosystem functioning and pastoral livelihoods. Although there are numerous …

Abstract Locusts are grasshoppers (Orthoptera: Acrididae) that are characterised by their
capacity for extreme population density-dependent polyphenism, transforming between a …

The concept of ecosystem services (ES) has risen to prominence based on its promise to
vastly improve environmental decision‐making and to represent nature's many benefits to …

Livestock grazing and climate change accelerate soil erosion in the grassland of Qinghai-
Tibet Plateau (QTP), China. However, the linkage of the two factors to accelerated erosion in …

Increasing management intensity of grassland through increased grazing intensity, mowing
frequency and fertilizer input have attracted more attention to the consequences of …

Nitrogen (N) enrichment often increases aboveground net primary productivity (ANPP) of the
ecosystem, but it is unclear if belowground net primary productivity (BNPP) track responses …

It is in general thought that nitrogen (N) fertilizer is overused in Chinese croplands and that
the overuse has resulted in severe environmental problems. As the biggest reactive nitrogen …

It is widely assumed that organisms at low trophic levels, particularly microbes and plants,
are essential to basic services in ecosystems, such as nutrient cycling. In theory, apex …

High nitrogen (N) input often induces soil carbon (C) limitation, eutrophication of
macronutrients, deficiency of base cations, and accumulation of toxic micronutrients. These …