ArticleScientific reports2017
Grazing exclusion by fencing non-linearly restored the degraded alpine grasslands on the Tibetan Plateau.
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- From arid deserts to mesic meadows: divergent pathways regulating microbial respiration under grassland enclosure.Frontiers in microbiology · 2025Article
- Grazing exclusion is more effective for vegetation restoration and nutrient transfer in the heavily degraded desert steppe.BMC plant biology · 2024Article
- Plant Community Traits Respond to Grazing Exclusion Duration in Alpine Meadow and Alpine Steppe on the Tibetan Plateau.Frontiers in plant science · 2022Article
- Climate overrides fencing and soil mineral nutrients to affect plant diversity and biomass of alpine grasslands across North Tibet.Frontiers in plant science · 2022Article
- Increasing connections among temporal invariability, resistance and resilience of alpine grasslands on the Tibetan Plateau.Frontiers in plant science · 2022Article
- Improved model simulation of soil carbon cycling by representing the microbially derived organic carbon pool.The ISME journal · 2021Article
- Climate-Driven Plant Response and Resilience on the Tibetan Plateau in Space and Time: A Review.Plants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2021Review
- Monitoring vegetation change and their potential drivers in Yangtze River Basin of China from 1982 to 2015.Environmental monitoring and assessment · 2020Article
- Assessment of varying changes of vegetation and the response to climatic factors using GIMMS NDVI3g on the Tibetan Plateau.PloS one · 2020Article
- Estimating soil degradation in montane grasslands of North-eastern Italian Alps (Italy).Heliyon · 2019Article
- Current challenges in distinguishing climatic and anthropogenic contributions to alpine grassland variation on the Tibetan Plateau.Ecology and evolution · 2018Review
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Abstract
Resilience is an important aspect of the non-linear restoration of disturbed ecosystems. Fenced grassland patches on the northern Tibetan Plateau can be used to examine the resistance and resilience of degraded alpine grasslands to grazing and to a changing climate. To examine the non-linearity of restoration, we used moderate resolution imaging spectroradiometer (MODIS) normalized difference vegetation index (NDVI) as a proxy for productivity during a ten-year restoration by fencing. Degraded alpine grasslands exhibited three restoration trajectories: an equilibrium in meadows, a non-linear increase across steppes, and an abrupt impulse in desert-steppes following a slight increase in productivity. Combined with weather conditions, the ten-year grazing exclusion has successfully enhanced the NDVI on the most degraded steppes, but did not do so efficiently on either meadows or desert-steppes. Warming favors the NDVI enhancement of degraded meadows, but higher temperatures limited the restoration of degraded steppes and desert-steppes. Precipitation is necessary to restore degraded alpine grasslands, but more precipitation might be useless for meadows due to lower temperatures and for desert-steppes due to limitations caused by the small species pool. We suggest that detailed field observations of community compositional changes are necessary to better understand the mechanisms behind such non-linear ecological restorations.
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