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Regression analysis indicated that the effects of GE on Rs were mainly due to changes in soil temperature, soil moisture, and MBC. Compared with the grazed blocks, GE significantly decreased soil carbon release by 23.6% over the growing season and 21.4% annually, but it increased the temperature sensitivity (Q10) of Rs by 6.5% and 14.2% for the growing season and annually respectively. Therefore, GE may reduce the release of soil carbon from the Tibetan Plateau, but under future climate warming scenarios, the increases in Q10 induced by GE could lead to increased carbon emissions.</p>", "keywords": ["570", "MICROBIAL RESPIRATION", "Environmental Sciences & Ecology", "Plant Productivity", "Temperature Sensitivity", "ALPINE GRASSLAND", "630", "Microbial Biomass Carbon", "NORTHERN CHINA", "SEASONAL PATTERNS", "MOUNTAIN GRASSLANDS", "Grazing Exclusion", "Tibetan Plateau", "PLANT-COMMUNITIES", "Original Research", "2. 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However, it remains unclear how grazing influences plant community attributes and the variability of standing crop. We examined the effects of sheep grazing at four stocking rate treatments [control, 0 sheep ha(-1) month(-1); light (LG), 0.15 sheep ha(-1 )month(-1); moderate (MG), 0.30 sheep ha(-1) month(-1); and heavy (HG), 0.45 sheep ha(-1) month(-1)] on standing crop at the community level and partitioned by species and functional groups, in the desert steppe of Inner Mongolia, China. The treatments were arranged in a completely randomized block design over a 9-year period. Standing crop was measured every August from 2004 to 2012. Peak standing crop decreased (P < 0.05) with increasing stocking rate; peak standing crop in the HG treatment decreased 40 % compared to the control. May-July precipitation explained at least 76 % of the variation in peak standing crop. MG and HG treatments resulted in a decrease (P < 0.05) in shrubs, semi-shrubs, and perennials forbs, and an increase (P < 0.05) in perennial bunchgrasses compared to the control. The coefficients of variation at plant functional group and species level in the LG and MG treatments were lower (P < 0.05) than in the control and HG treatments. Peak standing crop variability of the control and HG community were greatest, which suggested that LG and MG have greater ecosystem stability.", "keywords": ["2. Zero hunger", "0106 biological sciences", "0301 basic medicine", "Conservation of Natural Resources", "Sheep", "Rain", "Mongolia", "15. Life on land", "Poaceae", "01 natural sciences", "03 medical and health sciences", "Animals", "Herbivory", "Ecosystem"], "contacts": [{"organization": "Mengli Zhao, Xinjie Zhang, Guodong Han, Xiaoliang Wang, Walter D. Willms, Kris Havsatad, Zhongwu Wang, Yongzhi Liu, Haijun Ding, Shuying Jiao, Eldon L. 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An experiment manipulating densities of the grasshopper Oedaleus asiaticus was performed to assess top-down effects of grasshoppers on C:N:P stoichiometry of plants and soil in a grassland ecosystem in Inner Mongolia (China). With increased grasshopper feeding, plant biomass declined fourfold, litter abundance increased 30%, and the plant community became dominated by non-host plant taxa. Plant stoichiometric response depended on whether or not the plant was a grasshopper host food species: C:N and C:P ratios increased with increasing grasshopper density (GD) for host plants but decreased in non-host plants. These data suggest either a direct transfer of grasshopper-recycled nutrients from host to non-host plants or a release of non-host plants from nutrient competition with heavily grazed host plants. Litterfall C:N and C:P decreased across moderate levels of grasshopper density but no effects on C:N:P stoichiometry in the surface soil were observed, possibly due to the short experimental period. Our observations of divergent C:N:P stoichiometric response among plant species highlight the important role of grasshopper herbivory in regulating plant community structure and nutrient cycling in grassland ecosystems.", "keywords": ["Male", "2. Zero hunger", "0106 biological sciences", "0301 basic medicine", "Nitrogen", "Phosphorus", "Grasshoppers", "Mongolia", "Nitrogen Cycle", "Plants", "15. 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So far, little is known about species stoichiometric responses to these changes. We conducted a manipulative field experiment with nitrogen (N; 17.5 g m(-2) year(-1)) and water addition (180 mm per growing season) in a temperate steppe of northern China that is potentially highly vulnerable to global change. A unique and important outcome of our study is that water availability modulated plant nutritional and stoichiometric responses to increased N availability. N addition significantly reduced C:N ratios and increased N:P ratios but only under ambient water conditions. Under increased water supply, N addition had no effect on C:N ratios in green and senesced leaves and N:P ratios in senesced leaves, and significantly decreased C:P ratios in both green and senesced leaves and N:P ratios in green leaves. Stoichiometric ratios varied greatly among species. Our results suggest that N and water addition and species identity can affect stoichiometric ratios of both green and senesced tissues through direct and interactive means. Our findings highlight the importance of water availability in modulating stoichiometric responses of plants to potentially increased N availability in semi-arid grasslands.", "keywords": ["0106 biological sciences", "2. Zero hunger", "Nitrogen", "Climate", "Water", "Mongolia", "15. Life on land", "Poaceae", "01 natural sciences", "6. Clean water", "Plant Leaves", "Soil", "13. 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Here, we quantify these drivers in a field study of 171 plant species in 174 sites across Chinese grasslands, including the Tibetan Plateau, Inner Mongolia, and Xinjiang. General linear models were used to partition leaf trait variation. Of the total variation in leaf traits, on average 27% is due to taxonomic or phylogenetic differences among species within sites (pure species effect), 29% to variation among sites within species (pure site effect), 38% to joint effects of taxonomic and environmental factors (shared effect), and 6.2% to within-site and within-species variation. Examining the pure site effect, climate explained 7.8%, soil explained 7.4%, and climate and soil variables together accounted for 11%, leaving 18% of the inter-site variation due to factors other than climate or soil. The results do not support the hypothesis that soil fertility is the 'missing link' to explain leaf trait variation unexplained by climatic factors. Climate- and soil-induced leaf adaptations occur mostly among species, and leaf traits vary little within species in Chinese grassland plants, despite strongly varying climate and soil conditions.", "keywords": ["0106 biological sciences", "China", "Climate", "Soil fertility", "Poaceae", "01 natural sciences", "10127 Institute of Evolutionary Biology and Environmental Studies", "Soil", "Quantitative Trait", " Heritable", "Species Specificity", "1110 Plant Science", "Tibetan Plateau", "Leaf economics spectrum", "functional traits", "Photosynthesis", "Ecosystem", "Phylogeny", "2. Zero hunger", "photosynthesis", "soil fertility", "Inner Mongolia (China)", "15. 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Mean fluxes during the period March 12\u2013May 11 were 8.2\u2009\u00b1\u20090.5 (UG99) and 1.5\u2009\u00b1\u20090.2\u00a0\u03bcg N2O\u2013N m\u22122\u00a0h\u22121 (WG) for N2O, 7.2\u2009\u00b1\u20090.2 (UG99) and 3.0\u2009\u00b1\u20090.1\u00a0mg CO2\u2013C m\u22122\u00a0h\u22121 (WG) for CO2 and \u221242.5\u2009\u00b1\u20090.9 (UG99) and \u221214.1\u2009\u00b1\u20090.3\u00a0\u03bcg CH4\u2013C m\u22122 h\u22121 (WG) for CH4. Our data show that N2O emissions from semi-arid steppe are strongly affected by freeze\u2013thawing. N2O emissions reached values of up to 75\u00a0\u03bcg N2O\u2013N m\u22122\u00a0h\u22121 at the UG99 site, but were considerably lower at the WG site. The observed differences in N2O, CH4 and CO2 fluxes between the ungrazed and grazed sites were ascribed to the reduced plant biomass at the grazed site, and\u2014most important\u2014to a reduction in soil moisture, due to reduced snow capturing during winter. Thus, winter-grazing significantly reduced N2O emission but on the other hand also reduced the uptake of atmospheric CH4. To finally evaluate which of the both effects is most important for the non-CO2 greenhouse gas balance measurements covering an entire year are needed.", "keywords": ["Nitrous oxide", "info:eu-repo/classification/ddc/550", "Freeze\u2013thaw events", "550", "ddc:550", "MAGIM", "0607 Plant Biology", "04 agricultural and veterinary sciences", "15. Life on land", "Grazing", "Inner Mongolia", "Earth sciences", "Carbon dioxide", "Semi-arid grassland", "13. 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However, it remains unclear if grazing exclusion can improve ecosystem services related to carbon (C) and nitrogen (N) sequestration in grassland ecosystems. We investigated the effects of 11\u00a0years of grazing exclusion on plant biomass and diversity, soil properties (pH, soil water content (SWC), bulk density (BD), soil organic carbon (SOC), total nitrogen (TN), and C/N ratio), and the C and N stocks of plants and soils in a desert grassland of Northwest China. Grazing exclusion improved plant aboveground biomass and diversity, as well as SWC, SOC, and TN contents, but lowered the belowground biomass, root/shoot ratio, pH, and BD. Moreover, grazing exclusion strongly influenced the C and N stocks of the ecosystem, and the annual mean ecosystem C and N sequestration rates were 0.47 and 0.09\u00a0Mg\u00a0ha \u2212\u00a01 \u00a0yr \u2212\u00a01 , respectively, over 11\u00a0years of grazing exclusion. Soil C stocks were most dynamic in the top 30\u00a0cm of the soil, and N stocks mainly changed in the top 20\u00a0cm after grazing exclusion. Our results indicated that grazing exclusion is an effective measurement on improving the ecosystem C and N pools in desert steppe of Northwest China.", "keywords": ["SOIL ORGANIC C", "0106 biological sciences", "Carbon Sequestration", "550", "MICROBIAL-COMMUNITY", "SPATIAL VARIABILITY", "PHYSICAL-PROPERTIES", "Soil Science", "01 natural sciences", "Soil Prosperities", "CENTRAL ARGENTINA", "CARBON STORAGE", "PLANT-COMMUNITIES", "Vegetation Characteristics", "580", "2. Zero hunger", "Science & Technology", "Multidisciplinary", "PRODUCTIVITY", "Nitrogen Sequestration", "Geology", "Agriculture", "04 agricultural and veterinary sciences", "15. Life on land", "INNER-MONGOLIA", "Grazing", "13. 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However, the information on the lake\u2019s characteristics (e.g., water depth versus surface area) is scarce in literature. Based on the lake\u2019s physiographic features, this study developed and used a model that merges the sunlight reflection band with the thermal infrared radiation band to simulate the lake\u2019s characteristics. The model verification and error analysis indicated an optimal model structure of logarithm. Thus, this logarithmic model was selected to analyze the spectral data. The results indicated that the model did a good job in reproducing observed water depths and accurately predicted the depths on 24 September 2007. This showed that this model can be reliably applied to\u00a0the cold and arid region. Subsequently, the results were used to generate a triangular irregular network (TIN) model, which in turn was used to compute the functional relations between water level, surface area, and volume. The correlation between water level and volume is superior to that between water level and area. The regression equation developed in this study can be used to estimate the volume when water elevation is known.", "keywords": ["Inner Mongolia", "TIN", "13. Climate action", "cold and arid region", "multi-band merging", "0211 other engineering and technologies", "02 engineering and technology", "15. Life on land", "01 natural sciences", "lake depth", "0105 earth and related environmental sciences"], "contacts": [{"organization": "Li, Changyou, Sun, Biao, Jia, Keli, Zhang, Sheng, Li, Weiping, Shi, Xiaohong, Cordovil, Cl\u00e1udia, Pereira, Lu\u00eds Santos,", "roles": ["creator"]}]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mcm.2012.12.027"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Mathematical%20and%20Computer%20Modelling", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1016/j.mcm.2012.12.027", "name": "item", "description": "10.1016/j.mcm.2012.12.027", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1016/j.mcm.2012.12.027"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2013-08-01T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1371/journal.pone.0102344", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-05-25T16:19:27Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2014-07-17", "title": "Relationships Of Biomass With Environmental Factors In The Grassland Area Of Hulunbuir, China", "description": "Many studies have focused on the relationship between vegetation biomass and environmental factors in grassland. However, several questions remain to be answered, especially with regards to the spatial pattern of vegetation biomass. Thus, the distributed mechanism will be explored in the present study. Here, plant biomass was measured at 23 sites along a transect survey during the peak growing season in 2006. The data were analyzed with a classification and regression tree (CART) model. The structural equation modeling (SEM) was conducted to explicitly evaluate the both direct and indirect effects of these critical environmental elements on vegetation biomass. The results demonstrated that mean annual temperature (MAT) affected aboveground biomass (AGB) scored at -0.811 (P<0.05). The direct effect of MAT on belowground biomass (BGB) was -0.490 (P<0.05). The results were determined by SEM. Our results indicate that AGB and BGB in semi-arid ecosystems is strongly affected by precipitation and temperature. Future work shall attempt to take into account the integrated effects of precipitation and temperature. Meanwhile, partitioning the influences of environmental variations and vegetation types are helpful in illuminating the internal mechanism of biomass distribution.", "keywords": ["0106 biological sciences", "2. Zero hunger", "China", "Models", " Statistical", "Science", "Climate", "Data Collection", "Rain", "Q", "R", "Temperature", "Mongolia", "04 agricultural and veterinary sciences", "Plants", "15. Life on land", "Grassland", "01 natural sciences", "13. 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Here, we observed the changing trends of different OC components in soils with increased GE duration in five grassland succession series plots, ranging from free grazing to 31-year GE. Specifically, we measured microbial biomass carbon (MBC), easily oxidizable OC (EOC), water-soluble OC (WSOC), and OC in water stable aggregates (macroaggregates [250-2000 \u03bcm], microaggregates [53-250 \u03bcm], and mineral fraction [< 53 \u03bcm]) at 0-20 cm soil depths. The results showed that GE significantly enhanced EOC and WSOC contents in soils, but caused a decline of MBC at the three decade scale. Macroaggregate content (F = 425.8, P < 0.001), OC stored in macroaggregates (F = 84.1, P < 0.001), and the mean weight diameter (MWD) of soil aggregates (F = 371.3, P < 0.001) increased linearly with increasing GE duration. These findings indicate that OC stored in soil increases under three-decade GE with soil organic matter (SOM) stability improving to some extent. Long-term GE practices enhance the formation of soil aggregates through higher SOM input and an exclusion of animal trampling. Therefore, the practice of GE may be further encouraged to realize the soil carbon sequestration potential of semi-arid grasslands, China.", "keywords": ["2. Zero hunger", "Carbon Sequestration", "China", "Geography", "Science", "Q", "R", "Water", "Agriculture", "Mongolia", "04 agricultural and veterinary sciences", "Hydrogen-Ion Concentration", "15. 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