Grazing exclusion (GE) is commonly used worldwide in the management of degraded
grasslands. While the effects of GE on soil organic carbon (SOC) and soil total nitrogen …

Highlights•The sustainable grazing management should focus on the biodiversity
conservation and the maintenance of ecosystem multifunctionality.•Grazing effects on …

Grazing effects on soil properties under different soil and environmental conditions across
the globe are often controversial. Therefore, it is essential to evaluate the overall magnitude …

Long-term afforestation has important implications on soil properties and quality in semi-arid
areas. A large-scale afforestation project has been carried out in the Loess Plateau in the …

Soil nutrients and stoichiometry are two important fertility indicators for grassland
ecosystems, and are essential to maintain ecosystem function and protect land from …

Agriculture, broadly defined to include crop and livestock production, forestry, aquaculture
and fishery, represents a key source or sink of greenhouse gas emissions. It is also a …

Context Livestock grazing, a common method of grassland utilization, has profound effects
on the plant biomass and biodiversity of grassland ecosystems. However, the overall …

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 …

Moderate grazing has been widely proven to improve ecosystem functioning and have
profound effects on the carbon cycling and storage in grassland ecosystems, which highly …

The Tibetan grassland ecosystems possess significant carbon sink potential and have room
for improved carbon sequestration processes. There is a need to uncover more ambitious …