Effects of grazing exclusion on carbon sequestration and plant diversity in grasslands of China—A meta-analysis

D **ong, P Shi, X Zhang, CB Zou - Ecological Engineering, 2016 - Elsevier
Widespread land degradation has strengthened the urgent need to restore overgrazing
grasslands. China has implemented the program 'Returning Grazing Land to …

Poverty eradication and ecological resource security in development of the Tibetan Plateau

Y Pan, J Zhu, Y Zhang, Z Li, J Wu - Resources, Conservation and Recycling, 2022 - Elsevier
In 2021, China announced the elimination of extreme poverty nationally. One region of
extreme poverty in China was the Tibetan Plateau, which provides crucial ecosystem …

Effects of grazing exclusion on plant productivity and soil carbon, nitrogen storage in alpine meadows in northern Tibet, China

D **ong, P Shi, Y Sun, J Wu, X Zhang - Chinese geographical science, 2014 - Springer
Grazing exclusion is widely adopted in restoring degraded alpine grasslands on the Qinghai-
Tibetan Plateau. However, its effectiveness remains poorly understood. In this study, we …

Analysis of the tradeoffs between provisioning and regulating services from the perspective of varied share of net primary production in an alpine grassland ecosystem

Y Pan, J Wu, Z Xu - Ecological Complexity, 2014 - Elsevier
Because ecosystems are complex, tradeoffs exist among supplies of multiple ecosystem
services, especially between the provisioning and regulating services. In ecosystem …

Yak dung pat fragmentation affects its carbon and nitrogen leaching in Northern Tibet, China

Z Du, X Wang, J **ang, Y Wu, B Zhang, Y Yan… - Agriculture, Ecosystems …, 2021 - Elsevier
The dung excreted by yaks (Bos grunniens) into alpine grasslands on the Qinghai-Tibetan
Plateau is an important ecological pathway for returning organic matter and nutrients that …

A modified framework for the regional assessment of climate and human impacts on net primary productivity

Y Pan, C Yu, X Zhang, B Chen, J Wu, Y Tu, Y Miao… - Ecological …, 2016 - Elsevier
Improving models that depict the components of net primary production (NPP) in ecosystems
will help us to better understand how climate change and human activities affect the …

The impact of excretal returns from yak and Tibetan sheep dung on nitrous oxide emissions in an alpine steppe on the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau

Y Cai, X Wang, L Tian, H Zhao, X Lu, Y Yan - Soil Biology and Biochemistry, 2014 - Elsevier
This study describes the impact of excretal returns derived from livestock dung on nitrous
oxide (N 2 O) emissions in a grazed alpine grassland ecosystem. N 2 O flux, vegetation and …

Recovery in soil carbon stocks but reduced carbon stabilization after near-natural restoration in degraded alpine meadows

G He, X Liu, Y Li, H Xu, T Ji, Z Yang, H Qi, C Ma… - Scientific Reports, 2024 - nature.com
Near-natural restoration is acknowledged as an effective strategy for enhancing soil organic
carbon (SOC) sequestration in degraded grasslands. However, the alterations in SOC …

Comparison of ecosystem services provided by grasslands with different utilization patterns in China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region

B Du, L Zhen, Y Hu, H Yan, R De Groot… - Journal of Geographical …, 2018 - Springer
Although several previous studies in Inner Mongolia examined the effects of ecological
conservation on the delivery of ecosystem services, they were often limited in scope (few …

Yak dung pat fragmentation decreases yield-scaled growing-season nitrous oxide emissions in an alpine steppe on the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau

R Tang, Z Du, G Zhu, Y Fang, A Ei-Naggar… - Biology and Fertility of …, 2021 - Springer
A 120-day field experiment was conducted to investigate the responses of soil N 2 O
emissions, plant biomass N content, and N cycling-related functional genes to yak (Bos …