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

Integration of crops with livestock is receiving increased attention to improve soil productivity
and environmental quality. Grazing of crop residues is an important practice, particularly …

Humans have grazed on the Qinghai–Tibetan Plateau (QTP) for many thousands of years. In
recent decades, the intensity of grazing has increased and several new management …

Widespread land degradation has strengthened the urgent need to restore overgrazing
grasslands. China has implemented the program 'Returning Grazing Land to …

Grazing regime has an important effect on grassland ecosystem. however, the mechanisms
how alpine meadow vegetation, soil quality responds to this management regime remain …

Phosphorus fertilisation and increasing litter input are widely employed to restore the
degraded grasslands. Despite the key roles of nitrogen-cycling microbes in determining the …

Globally, excessive grazing is identified as one of the key disturbances leading to grassland
degradation and soil carbon (C) loss. Grazing exclusion has been proposed as an effective …

While determining the response of soil microbes to grazer exclosure duration is critical to
understanding ecosystem restoration processes, few studies have focused on this issue …

Grazing is one of the main human disturbance factors in alpine grassland on the Qinghai-
Tibet Plateau (QTP), which can directly or indirectly influence the community structures and …

The functional structure of plant communities can be altered by grazing through two main
mechanisms: species turnover (ie changes in species occurrence and relative abundance) …