Grazing of crop residues: Impacts on soils and crop production

MK Rakkar, H Blanco-Canqui - Agriculture, Ecosystems & Environment, 2018 - Elsevier
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 …

[HTML][HTML] Spatiotemporal variation and coupling of grazing intensity and ecosystem based on four quadrant model on the Inner Mongolia

Z Liao, K Su, X Jiang, J Wang, Y You, L Wang… - Ecological …, 2023 - Elsevier
Scientific understanding of the coupling relationship between grazing activities and
grassland ecosystem is an important foundation for protecting and improving the ecological …

Understanding the drivers of ecosystem multifunctionality in the Mongolian steppe: The role of grazing history and resource input

F Xu, J Li, J Su, T Sasaki, X Lu, Y Wang, D Chen… - Agriculture, Ecosystems …, 2024 - Elsevier
Predicting the comprehensive driver of ecosystem multifunctionality is crucial for effective
grassland management. However, the underlying biotic and abiotic mechanisms of …

Global hotspots and trends in microbial-mediated grassland carbon cycling: a bibliometric analysis

X Xiang, T Yao, B Man, D Lin, C Li - Frontiers in Microbiology, 2024 - frontiersin.org
Grasslands are among the most widespread environments on Earth, yet we still have poor
knowledge of their microbial-mediated carbon cycling in the context of human activity and …

[HTML][HTML] Assessing the impact of grazing management on wind erosion risk in grasslands: A case study on how grazing affects aboveground biomass and soil particle …

L Dong, J Wang, J Li, Y Wu, Y Zheng, J Zhang… - Global Ecology and …, 2022 - Elsevier
Soil wind erosion has consistently been a serious ecological problem in northern China. In
recent decades, the grasslands of Inner Mongolia have suffered severe degradation due to …

Vegetation Dynamics and Its Response to Extreme Climate on the Inner Mongolian Plateau during 1982–2020

R Su, E Guo, Y Wang, S Yin, Y Bao, Z Sun, N Mandula… - Remote sensing, 2023 - mdpi.com
The impact of extreme climate change on terrestrial ecosystems continues to intensify. This
study was conducted to understand extreme climate–vegetation interactions under …

[HTML][HTML] Quantitative analysis of relative impacts of climate change and human activities on Xilingol grassland in recent 40 years

N Wu, A Liu, R Ye, D Yu, W Du, Q Chaolumeng… - Global Ecology and …, 2021 - Elsevier
Previous studies have shown that climate changes and human activities are the main
external factors affecting grassland. Therefore, quantitative assessment of their dominant …

Grassland management regimes regulate soil phosphorus fractions and conversion between phosphorus pools in semiarid steppe ecosystems

Q Sun, R Jia, J Qin, Y Wang, X Lu, P Yang, Y Bai - Biogeochemistry, 2023 - Springer
Although livestock grazing can strongly affect pools and cycles of phosphorus (P) in
grassland ecosystems, few studies have examined how grassland management regimes …

Grazing intensity alters the plant diversity–ecosystem carbon storage relationship in rangelands across topographic and climatic gradients

A Sanaei, EJ Sayer, Z Yuan, H Saiz… - Functional …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Plant diversity supports multiple ecosystem functions, including carbon sequestration.
Recent shifts in plant diversity in rangelands due to increased grazing pressure and climate …

Comparison of aboveground vegetation and soil seed bank composition at sites of different grazing intensity around a savanna-woodland watering point in West …

L Sanou, D Zida, P Savadogo, A Thiombiano - Journal of plant research, 2018 - Springer
Grazing removes a plant's aboveground vegetative and reproductive tissues and can modify
the soil seed bank, potentially impacting the restoration of preferred species. Knowledge …