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Tree plantations replacing natural grasslands in high biodiversity areas: How do they affect the mammal assemblage?
Productive landscape Tree plantation management Medium to large-size mammals Species richness Species composition Keystone habitats Landscape heterogeneity
2024/1/23
Monoculture plantations of fast-growing trees are increasing worldwide and, in many cases, these replace highly diverse natural environments. The Mesopotamian Savannas and the Iberá marshes ecoregions...
Environmental change is triggering an identity switch in grasslands（图）
Environmental change triggering identity switch grasslands
2019/10/21
Since the first Homo sapiens emerged in Africa 300,000 years ago, grasslands have sustained humans and thousands of other species. Today, those grasslands are shifting. Global change -- including clim...
Ozark Grasslands Experience Major Increase In Trees And Shrubs（图）
Ozark Grasslands Major Increase Trees Shrubs
2017/10/24
Woody vegetation, such as trees and shrubs, has increased dramatically in Ozark grasslands over the past 75 years, according to a study published this week in the journal Landscape Ecology.The study e...
Rising Temperatures Threaten Stability of Tibetan Alpine Grasslands
Rising Temperatures Threaten Alpine Grasslands
2017/7/20
A warming climate could affect the stability of alpine grasslands in Asia’s Tibetan Plateau, threatening the ability of farmers and herders to maintain the animals that are key to their existence, and...
UW Researcher Helps Quantify Grasslands’ Carbon Storage Value
UW Researcher Quantify Grasslands’ Carbon Storage Value
2017/4/27
When grasslands feature a wide array of plant species, they provide a variety of benefits for humans and animals, including enhanced carbon storage capacity that can be quantified economically, accord...
Stanford study shows U.S. grasslands affected more by atmospheric dryness than precipitation
Stanford U.S. grasslands atmospheric dryness precipitation
2017/3/30
A new study showing dryness of the atmosphere affects U.S. grassland productivity more than rainfall could have important implications for predicting how plants will respond to warming climate conditi...
BIODIVERSITY MAPPING VIA NATURA 2000 CONSERVATION STATUS AND EBV ASSESSMENT USING AIRBORNE LASER SCANNING IN ALKALI GRASSLANDS
LIDAR Essential Biodiversity Variables Natura 2000 Conservation status Biodiversity assessment
2016/12/1
Biodiversity is an ecological concept, which essentially involves a complex sum of several indicators. One widely accepted such set of indicators is prescribed for habitat conservation status assessme...
Warmer,wetter climate would impair California grasslands
Warmer wetter climate California grasslands
2016/9/12
Results from one of the longest-running and most extensive experiments to examine how climate change will affect agricultural productivity show that California grasslands will become less productive i...
In grasslands,longer spring growing season offsets higher summer temperatures
grasslands spring growing season higher summer temperatures
2016/3/2
Grasslands across North America will face higher summer temperatures and widespread drought by the end of the century, according to a new study.But those negative effects in vegetation growth will be ...
The American Forage and Grassland Council (AFGC) is an international organization made up of 20 affiliate councils in the United States and Canada with a total individual membership of about 2,500. O...
Mapping flood recessional grasslands used by overwintering geese: a multi-temporal remote sensing application
Phenology multi-temporal analysis MODIS
2015/8/21
Significant numbers of grass eating geese migrate in east Asia as far south as the Yangtze. Geese prefer young and high quality
vegetation, a resource difficult to find in central China in autumn and...
Grazing alters ecosystem functioning and C:N:P stoichiometry of grasslands along a regional precipitation gradient
China–Mongolia transect N and P co-limitation N cycling plant and soil C N and P pools plant functional group composition primary production stoichiometry the Eurasian steppe
2015/2/4
The Eurasian steppe has long been subject to grazing by domestic ungulates at high levels, resulting in widespread deterioration of biodiversity and ecosystem services. While abundant evidence demonst...
Effects of grazing on leaf traits and ecosystem functioning in Inner Mongolia grasslands: scaling from species to community
grazing on leaf traits ecosystem functioning Inner Mongolia grasslands scaling from species to community
2015/2/4
Understanding the mechanistic links between environmental drivers, human disturbance, plant functional traits, and ecosystem properties is a fundamental aspect of biodiversity-ecosystem functioning re...
Tradeoffs and thresholds in the effects of nitrogen addition on biodiversity and ecosystem functioning: evidence from inner Mongolia Grasslands
aboveground biomass ecological restoration ecosystem management Eurasia steppe nitrogen enrichment plant functional group composition species richness
2015/2/4
Nitrogen (N) deposition is widely considered an environmental problem that leads to biodiversity loss and reduced ecosystem resilience; but, N fertilization has also been used as a management tool for...
Short-t erm responses of a Stipa grandis/Leymus chinensis community to frequent defoliation in the semi-arid grasslands of Inner Mongolia, China
Grassland degradation Semi-arid Inner Mongolia Defoliation Productivity
2015/2/4
Grassland degradation due to over-grazing causes severe ecological and economical problems in the semi-arid grasslands of Inner Mongolia, PR China. The development of sustainable management systems is...