Grasslands are under severe threat from ongoing degradation, undermining their capacity to
support biodiversity, ecosystem services and human well-being. Yet, grasslands are largely …

Among options for atmospheric CO2 removal, sequestering soil organic carbon (SOC) via
improved grazing management is a rare opportunity because it is scalable across millions of …

Intense grazing may lead to grassland degradation on the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau, but it is
difficult to predict where this will occur and to quantify it. Based on a process-based …

Exceptionally strong summertime warming occurred over the Mongolian Plateau between
1986 and 2004, at a rate that was three times the average terrestrial warming in the Northern …

Abstract Vegetation in Northern Hemisphere, being sensitive to climate change, plays an
important role in the carbon cycles between land and the atmosphere. The response of …

China initiated the “Grain for Green Project” in 1999 to mitigate soil erosion. The vegetation
cover of the Chinese Loess Plateau, one of the most erosive regions in the world, has been …

Remote sensing of vegetation phenology has long been used to characterize ecosystem
functions and responses to climate at spatial and temporal scales unfeasible to field surveys …

As a result of the unique geographical characteristics, pastoral lifestyle, and economic
conditions in Mongolia, its fragile natural ecosystems are highly sensitive to climate change …

The Palaearctic steppes range from the Mediterranean basin towards China, forming one of
the largest continuous terrestrial biomes. The literature on steppe ecology and conservation …

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 …