Revegetation has been proposed as an effective approach to restoring the extremely degraded grassland in the Qinghai–Tibetan Plateau (QTP). However, little is known about the effect of revegetation on ecosystem carbon density (ECD), especially...
Fertilization is a critical measure for vegetation restoration and ecological reconstruction in degraded grasslands. However, little is known about the long-term effects of different combinations of nitrogen (N), phosphorus (P), potassium (K) on plan...
Actinobacteria play major roles in human health and soil nutrient biogeochemical cycles, which are important for environmental protection. On the northern Qinghai–Tibet Plateau, the Qiangtang Alpine Grasslands have recently become degraded to v...
Overgrazing leads to the degradation of grazing lands, which seriously threatens the stability of grassland ecosystems. Root-invading fungi, as one of the main influencing factors, can cause plant diseases in grasslands, reduce the proportion of domi...
Biogas slurry is rich in nitrogen, phosphorus and bioactive substances, making it an effective material for restoring degraded grasslands. Against this background, we conducted a field experiment in Zhenglan Banner, Xilingol League, Inner Mongolia Au...
The Qinghai–Tibetan Plateau (QTP) has the largest area of natural grassland in China, and continuous grassland degradation poses a serious threat to regional ecological security and sustainable resource management. It is essential to comprehens...
In recent years, grassland degradation has become a global ecological problem. The identification of degraded grassland species is of great significance for monitoring grassland ecological environments and accelerating grassland ecological restoratio...
The attenuation of soil organic carbon and the destruction of soil microbial structure are common manifestations of grassland degradation. The addition of exogenous organic carbon and microorganisms may be an effective way to quickly restore degraded...
The Songnen grassland is an important resource for livestock production in China. Due to the intensification of anthropogenic activities in recent years, vegetation degradation has worsened, and the salinization of grassland has become increasingly s...
Reseeding is widely used to restore degraded grasslands, but the extent to which restoration outcomes depend on grass–legume species combinations remains unclear. We conducted a two-year field experiment in a degraded semi-arid grassland in Inn...
Neotrinia splendens is widely distributed and is the dominant plant species of temperate degraded grassland in Inner Mongolia, showing a community growing habit forming a ring of individuals. However, there is a lack of attention to the soil microbia...
The alpine grasslands of the Qinghai–Tibet Plateau are one of the most famous grazing ecosystems in the world, providing a variety of ecosystem functions and services. The rate of grassland degradation has been slowed by the implementation of n...
Grassland is one of the most widely distributed ecosystems on the Tibetan Plateau (TP) accounting for about 60% of the total area. The grassland degradation has spread throughout the TP, and the scope and degree are increasing. The inconsistency of m...
Shangri-La is located in the eastern part of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, which has a fragile ecology. The plateau grassland has suffered from irreversible degradation under the influence of human activities. To address this issue, the Sentinel-2A data...
Reduced vegetation cover caused by grassland degradation results in the interception of solar illuminance significantly decreasing, then leading to an increase in ground temperature, which has a significant impact on biological growth and regional cl...
Ecosystem services (ESs) and their transformations in northern China play a crucial role in regional sustainability. During the past several decades, grassland degradation has become one of the most important ecological and economic issues in this re...
Grassland resources are important land resources. However, grassland degradation has become evident in recent years, which has reduced the function of soil and water conservation and restricted the development of animal husbandry. Timely and accurate...
Grassland degradation seriously threatens the ability of grassland to provide ecosystem services. Grassland ecological restoration and sustainable management decision making depends on an accurate understanding of the impacts of grassland degradation...
Grassland degradation is a major ecological problem at present, leading to changes in the grassland environment and the soil microbial community. Here, based on full-length 16S rRNA gene sequencing, we highlight the importance of small-scale environm...
Grassland degradation poses a serious threat to ecosystem stability and the sustainable development of human societies. In this study, we propose a framework for grassland degradation risk assessments and early warning based on key ecological factors...
Grassland degradation is a complex process and cannot be thoroughly measured by a single indicator, such as fractional vegetation cover (FVC), aboveground biomass (AGB), or net primary production (NPP), or by a simple combination of these indicators....
Ants, plants, and hemipterans in tritrophic mutualisms represent closer approximations to real ecosystems compared to twofold mutualisms, playing a critical role in ecosystem functioning. Although habitat degradation is a useful framework for investi...
Grassland degradation severely undermines the functions of grassland ecosystems. Inconsistencies in defining grassland degradation have spawned various estimation methods, leading to ongoing controversies. We argue that grassland degradation is a pro...
Grasslands have been increasingly impacted by human activities, gradually becoming one of the most threatened ecosystems globally. Advanced geographic information technology and remote sensing techniques allow for a fresh perspective on studying the...
The Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau (QTP) has the world’s largest alpine grassland ecosystem. The QTP ecosystem is extremely fragile and suffers continuous degradation. An accurate determination of the status of alpine grassland is the first crucial st...
Central Asia is one of the most sensitive regions to climate changes in the world and the grassland degradation of this region has attracted considerable concern. Quantifying the driving force of grassland degradation is important for understanding t...
The topicality of our research topic is justified by the significant change in traditional grassland management in the grassland areas of the Pannonian Basin. Due to several factors, the proportion of fallow grassland, and in parallel of over-exploit...
To explore whether there were differences among the patterns of response of grasslands with different levels of degradation to extreme drought events and nitrogen addition, three grasslands along a degradation gradient (extremely, moderately, and lig...
Vegetation and soil microorganisms are important components of terrestrial ecosystems and play a crucial role in ecosystem functioning. However, little is known about the synergistic changes in soil microbial community with aboveground plants in gras...
In traditional studies on grassland degradation drivers, researchers often lacked the flexibility to selectively consider driving factors and quantitatively depict their contributions. Interpretable machine learning offers a solution to these challen...
Grassland degradation influences arthropod community structure and abundance, which, in turn, modulate element cycling in grassland ecosystems through predation and soil structure modification. In order to explore the influence of degradation on arth...
Grassland degradation has become one of the most important ecological and environmental problems in the world, affecting the ecological balance of grassland and the welfare of residents. To reveal the impact mechanism of herders’ livelihood con...
Alpine grasslands on the Qinghai–Tibet Plateau are highly sensitive to climate change and human disturbances, and their degradation poses serious threats to ecosystem stability and soil conservation. Belowground bud banks form the foundation of...
Grassland coverage, aboveground net primary production (ANPP), and species composition are used as indicators of grassland degradation. However, soil salinization deficiency, which is also a factor of grassland degradation, is rarely used in grasslan...
Grassland ecosystems worldwide are confronted with degradation. It is of great importance to understand long-term trajectory patterns of grassland vegetation by advanced analytical models. This study proposes a new approach called a binary logistic r...
Grassland degradation driven by overgrazing, invasive species, and climate change profoundly affects the dynamics and stability of soil organic carbon (SOC), yet the molecular mechanisms underlying these changes remain unclear. This study investigate...
Soil microbes play crucial roles in grassland ecosystem functions, such as soil carbon (C) pool and nutrient cycle. Soil microbes in grasslands are susceptible to the degradation mediated by climate change and anthropogenic disturbance. However, rese...
Numerous studies have reported the importance of soil organic carbon (SOC) in grassland ecosystems and its response to soil degradation, but the effect of biochar application on SOC pools in degraded alpine grasslands remains unclear. Here, we set up...
Grassland degradation (GD) varies markedly across space. Identifying potential drivers at the county level enables precise grassland conservation and supports a win–win between economic development and ecological protection. However, most exist...
To investigate the effects of restoration measures on degraded grasslands in the typical steppe of Inner Mongolia, two restoration treatments—enclosure (EN) and enclosure with additional bio-organic fertilizer application (EF)—were establ...
The environmental transmission of pathogens from domesticated ruminants presents a significant risk to the well-being of both humans and animals. However, the risk of pathogen release from grazing ruminants in natural grasslands has received comparat...
In this study, we proposed climate use efficiency (CUE), a new index in monitoring grassland ecosystem function, to mitigate the disturbance of climate fluctuation. A comprehensive evaluation index (EI), combining with actual vegetation net primary p...
To improve the soil loosening effects of degraded grasslands, this study investigates the performance of a bionic loosening shovel designed based on the claws of prairie zokor. A single-factor simulation test of the bionic loosening shovel was conduc...
There is currently a lot of interest in determining the state of Brazilian grasslands. Governmental actions and programs have recently been implemented for grassland recovery in Brazilian states, with the aim of improving production systems and socio...
Grassland degradation is a global ecological crisis that profoundly alters aboveground vegetation and soil properties, yet its impacts on soil microbial co-occurrence networks remain poorly understood. Here, we investigated soil bacterial and fungal...
Intense human activities break the grassland–livestock balance and accelerate grassland degradation. We evaluated the use of native dominant species combined with arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF) in order to recover grassland and restrain gra...
Alpine grassland degradation in permafrost regions seriously affects the provision of ecosystem services, posing a threat to ecological security. Revegetation is a key strategy for the restoration of alpine grassland ecosystems on the Qinghai–T...
Grassland ecosystems in China have experienced degradation caused by natural processes and human activities. Time series segmentation and residual trend analysis (TSS-RESTREND) was applied to grasslands in eastern China. TSS-RESTREND is an extended v...
Dryland grasslands face elevated risks of rapid threshold crossing under a regime of warming, precipitation redistribution, and intensified interannual hydrothermal variability. Using the Ebinur Lake Basin (ELB) as a case, we developed an integrated...
This study evaluated the effects of no-till seeding and fertilization on the restoration of degraded grazing grasslands in Bayinbuluke. Poaceae species were selected for no-till replanting, with Elymus dahuricus, Puccinellia distans, and Festuca ovin...
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