scholarly journals Responses of Community Structure, Productivity and Turnover Traits to Long-Term Grazing Exclusion in a Semiarid Grassland on the Loess Plateau of Northern China

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jimin Cheng ◽  
Wei Li ◽  
Jishuai Su ◽  
Liang Guo ◽  
Jingwei Jin ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Community Structure ◽  
Loess Plateau ◽  
Northern China ◽  
The Loess Plateau ◽  
Semiarid Grassland ◽  
Grazing Exclusion

Effects of grazing exclusion on soil-vegetation relationships in a semiarid grassland on the Loess Plateau, China

2018 ◽  
Vol 29 (11) ◽  
pp. 4071-4079 ◽  
Author(s):  
Guohua Ren ◽  
Caixia Wang ◽  
Kuanhu Dong ◽  
Huisen Zhu ◽  
Yongcui Wang ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Loess Plateau ◽  
The Loess Plateau ◽  
Semiarid Grassland ◽  
Grazing Exclusion

Effects of long-term fertilization on AM fungal community structure and Glomalin-related soil protein in the Loess Plateau of China

2010 ◽  
Vol 342 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 233-247 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fasi Wu ◽  
Maoxing Dong ◽  
Yongjun Liu ◽  
Xiaojun Ma ◽  
Lizhe An ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Community Structure ◽  
Loess Plateau ◽  
Fungal Community ◽  
The Loess Plateau ◽  
Fungal Community Structure ◽  
Soil Protein

Long-term vegetation restoration promotes the stability of the soil micro-food web in the Loess Plateau in North-west China

CATENA ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 202 ◽  
pp. 105293
Author(s):  
Yang Wu ◽  
WenJing Chen ◽  
Wulan Entemake ◽  
Jie Wang ◽  
HongFei Liu ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Food Web ◽  
Loess Plateau ◽  
Vegetation Restoration ◽  
The Loess Plateau ◽  
West China ◽  
North West ◽  
The Stability

scholarly journals Vegetation Response to Goats Grazing Intensity in Semiarid Hilly Grassland of the Loess Plateau, Lanzhou, China

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (6) ◽  
pp. 3569
Author(s):  
Hua Cheng ◽  
Baocheng Jin ◽  
Kai Luo ◽  
Jiuying Pei ◽  
Xueli Zhang ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Growth Rate ◽  
Community Structure ◽  
Plant Growth ◽  
Loess Plateau ◽  
Grazing Intensity ◽  
Gps Tracking ◽  
Growth Stages ◽  
The Loess Plateau ◽  
Vegetation Community ◽  
Natural Grasslands

Quantitatively estimating the grazing intensity (GI) effects on vegetation in semiarid hilly grassland of the Loess Plateau can help to develop safe utilization levels for natural grasslands, which is a necessity of maintaining livestock production and sustainable development of grasslands. Normalized difference vegetation index (NDVI), field vegetation data, and 181 days (one goat per day) of GPS tracking were combined to quantify the spatial pattern of GI, and its effects on the vegetation community structure. The spatial distribution of GI was uneven, with a mean value of 0.50 goats/ha, and 95% of the study area had less than 1.30 goats/ha. The areas with utilization rates of rangeland (July) lower than 45% and 20% made up about 95% and 60% of the study area, respectively. Grazing significantly reduced monthly aboveground biomass, but the grazing effects on plant growth rate were complex across the different plant growth stages. Grazing impaired plant growth in general, but the intermediate GI appeared to facilitate plant growth rate at the end of the growing seasons. Grazing had minimal relationship with vegetation community structure characteristics, though Importance Value of forbs increased with increasing GI. Flexibility in the number of goats and conservatively defining utilization rate, according to the inter-annual variation of utilization biomass, would be beneficial to achieve ecologically healthy and economically sustainable GI.

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