Nearly 90% of the 390 million ha of grasslands in northern China are degraded.'Grazing
exclusion'has been implemented as a nature‐based solution to rejuvenate degraded …

Overgrazing is a primary cause of grassland degradation, including the loss of soil carbon,
but comprehensive analysis of the mechanism by which grazing affects soil organic carbon …

Prohibition of grazing has significantly reduced soil erosion and enhanced soil organic
carbon (SOC) stock on the Loess Plateau. However, this practice has reduced livestock …

Aims Deposition of urine and dung is a key mechanism by which herbivores influence the
nutrient cycling of terrestrial ecosystems. Yet, little is known about the roles of urine, dung …

Grazing on cultivated grassland is a green agricultural model. However, in China's Loess
Plateau, the type of cultivated grassland suitable for grazing and the amount of nitrogen …

Soil respiration (R s), a key process in the terrestrial carbon cycle, is very sensitive to climate
change. In this study, we synthesized 54 measurements of annual R s and 171 estimates of …

Soil aggregation is closely related to the soil organic carbon sequestration, both of which
plays an important role in the stability of the soil carbon pool. However, the results of the …

Biological soil crust (BSC) exists widely in many kinds of grassland, its effect on soil
mineralization in grazing systems has well been studied, but the impacts and threshold of …

Fencing off grassland soils emits massive amounts of carbon into the atmosphere. Whether
grazing management in desert steppes with fragile ecosystems can mitigate this trend …

Few studies on the effects of human activities and global climate change on temporal
stability have considered either grazing or precipitation addition (PA). How community …