Featured
-
-
Article
| Open AccessPrescribed fire maintains host plants of a rare grassland butterfly
- George C. Adamidis
- , Mark T. Swartz
- & Brent J. Sewall
-
Article
| Open AccessCommunity assembly mechanisms and succession processes significantly differ among treatments during the restoration of Stipa grandis – Leymus chinensis communities
- Ke Dong
- , Guang Hao
- & Yu-bao Gao
-
Article
| Open AccessDeep soil C and N pools in long-term fenced and overgrazed temperate grasslands in northwest China
- Jian-Ping Li
- , Hong-Bin Ma
- & Kai-Yang Qiu
-
Article
| Open AccessPollinator foraging flexibility mediates rapid plant-pollinator network restoration in semi-natural grasslands
- Norbertas Noreika
- , Ignasi Bartomeus
- & Erik Öckinger
-
Article
| Open AccessManagement of mountainous meadows associated with biodiversity attributes, perceived health benefits and cultural ecosystem services
- Raja Imran Hussain
- , Ronnie Walcher
- & Thomas Frank
-
Article
| Open AccessEffects of mulching on soil CO2 fluxes, hay yield and nutritional yield in a forage maize field in Northwest China
- Ming Fan
- , Qiang Li
- & Qi Wang
-
Article
| Open AccessNitrogen fertilizer regulates soil respiration by altering the organic carbon storage in root and topsoil in alpine meadow of the north-eastern Qinghai-Tibet Plateau
- Wen Li
- , Jinlan Wang
- & Wenxia Cao
-
Article
| Open AccessThe interactive effects of mowing and N addition did not weaken soil net N mineralization rates in semi-arid grassland of Northern China
- Yükun Luo
- , Changhui Wang
- & Kuanhu Dong
-
Article
| Open AccessImpact of nitrogen compounds on fungal and bacterial contributions to codenitrification in a pasture soil
- David Rex
- , Timothy J. Clough
- & Gary J. Lanigan
-
Article
| Open AccessGrazing enhances species diversity in grassland communities
- Muhammad Almaududi Pulungan
- , Shota Suzuki
- & Satoru Morita
-
Article
| Open AccessImpact of management on foliage-dwelling arthropods and dynamics within permanent pastures
- Rocío Rosa García
- & Mariecia D. Fraser
-
Article
| Open AccessImpact of desertification on soil and plant nutrient stoichiometry in a desert grassland
- Hui An
- , Zhuangsheng Tang
- & Zhouping Shangguan
-
Article
| Open AccessThe contribution of fire to the late Miocene spread of grasslands in eastern Eurasia (Black Sea region)
- Angelica Feurdean
- & Iuliana Vasiliev
-
Article
| Open AccessBoth mass ratio effects and community diversity drive biomass production in a grassland experiment
- Judit Sonkoly
- , András Kelemen
- & Péter Török
-
Article
| Open AccessBacterial communities associated to Chilean altiplanic native plants from the Andean grasslands soils
- Beatriz Fernández-Gómez
- , Jonathan Maldonado
- & Mauricio González
-
Article
| Open AccessThe effects of drought and nutrient addition on soil organisms vary across taxonomic groups, but are constant across seasons
- Julia Siebert
- , Marie Sünnemann
- & Nico Eisenhauer
-
Article
| Open AccessExtreme climatic events down-regulate the grassland biomass response to elevated carbon dioxide
- Naiming Yuan
- , Gerald Moser
- & Jürg Luterbacher
-
Article
| Open AccessVariation in plant functional groups indicates land degradation on the Tibetan Plateau
- Jiufu Luo
- , Xuemin Liu
- & Jinxing Zhou
-
Article
| Open AccessSix years of grazing exclusion is the optimum duration in the alpine meadow-steppe of the north-eastern Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau
- Wen Li
- , Yuzhen Liu
- & Wenxia Cao
-
Article
| Open AccessDifferential responses of heterotrophic and autotrophic respiration to nitrogen addition and precipitation changes in a Tibetan alpine steppe
- Changbin Li
- , Yunfeng Peng
- & Guoying Zhou
-
Article
| Open AccessSoil Organic Carbon Increases in Semi-Arid Regions while it Decreases in Humid Regions Due to Woody-Plant Encroachment of Grasslands in South Africa
- Admore Mureva
- , David Ward
- & Michael Cramer
-
Article
| Open AccessHigher species richness enhances yield stability in intensively managed grasslands with experimental disturbance
- Eamon Haughey
- , Matthias Suter
- & John A. Finn
-
Article
| Open AccessBoth trait-neutrality and filtering effects are validated by the vegetation patterns detected in the functional recovery of sand grasslands
- P. Török
- , G. Matus
- & B. Tóthmérész
-
Article
| Open AccessA Multi-year Beneficial Effect of Seed Priming with Gibberellic Acid-3 (GA3) on Plant Growth and Production in a Perennial Grass, Leymus chinensis
- Hong-Yuan Ma
- , Dan-Dan Zhao
- & Zheng-Wei Liang
-
Article
| Open AccessChanges in C:N:P stoichiometry modify N and P conservation strategies of a desert steppe species Glycyrrhiza uralensis
- Juying Huang
- , Pan Wang
- & Xing Xu
-
Article
| Open AccessLarge herbivores influence plant litter decomposition by altering soil properties and plant quality in a meadow steppe
- Zhongnan Wang
- , Xia Yuan
- & Chao Feng
-
Article
| Open AccessUsing co-occurrence information and trait composition to understand individual plant performance in grassland communities
- Eva Breitschwerdt
- , Ute Jandt
- & Helge Bruelheide
-
Article
| Open AccessEcosystem functions including soil organic carbon, total nitrogen and available potassium are crucial for vegetation recovery
- Kaiyang Qiu
- , Yingzhong Xie
- & Richard Pott
-
Article
| Open AccessFloral resource partitioning by individuals within generalised hoverfly pollination networks revealed by DNA metabarcoding
- Andrew Lucas
- , Owen Bodger
- & Natasha de Vere
-
Article
| Open AccessAssessment of plant species diversity based on hyperspectral indices at a fine scale
- Yu Peng
- , Min Fan
- & Rui Li
-
Article
| Open AccessEffects of root pruning radius and time on yield of tuberous roots and resource allocation in a crop of Helianthus tuberosus L.
- Kai Gao
- , Tiexia Zhu
- & Yang Gao
-
Article
| Open AccessGreenhouse gas released from the deep permafrost in the northern Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau
- Cuicui Mu
- , Lili Li
- & Tingjun Zhang
-
Article
| Open AccessNoise Source and Individual Physiology Mediate Effectiveness of Bird Songs Adjusted to Anthropogenic Noise
- Claire M. Curry
- , Paulson G. Des Brisay
- & Nicola Koper
-
Article
| Open AccessSoil organic carbon and total nitrogen pools in permafrost zones of the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau
- Lin Zhao
- , Xiaodong Wu
- & Yongjian Ding
-
Article
| Open AccessPhosphorus addition changes belowground biomass and C:N:P stoichiometry of two desert steppe plants under simulated N deposition
- Juying Huang
- , Hailong Yu
- & Yaxian Du
-
Article
| Open AccessConsequences of asynchronous heading in a perennial bunchgrass (Elymus excelsus)
- Haiyan Li
- , Xiaowei Jin
- & Yunfei Yang
-
Article
| Open AccessPhenotypic plasticity vs. local adaptation in quantitative traits differences of Stipa grandis in semi-arid steppe, China
- Shao-bo Gao
- , Li-dong Mo
- & Yu-bao Gao
-
Article
| Open AccessGrassland dynamics in response to climate change and human activities in Xinjiang from 2000 to 2014
- Renping Zhang
- , Tiangang Liang
- & Yusupujiang Aimaiti
-
Article
| Open AccessGrazing and climate effects on soil organic carbon concentration and particle-size association in northern grasslands
- Daniel B. Hewins
- , Mark P. Lyseng
- & Edward W. Bork
-
Article
| Open AccessLong-term nitrogen addition affects the phylogenetic turnover of soil microbial community responding to moisture pulse
- Chi Liu
- , Minjie Yao
- & Xiangzhen Li
-
Article
| Open AccessClipping has stronger effects on plant production than does warming in three alpine meadow sites on the Northern Tibetan Plateau
- Gang Fu
- & Zhen Xi Shen
-
Article
| Open AccessSpecies pool distributions along functional trade-offs shape plant productivity–diversity relationships
- Loïc Chalmandrier
- , Camille Albouy
- & Loïc Pellissier
-
Article
| Open AccessGrazing exclusion by fencing non-linearly restored the degraded alpine grasslands on the Tibetan Plateau
- Jianshuang Wu
- , Yunfei Feng
- & Chunqiao Song
-
Article
| Open AccessShort-term effects of non-grazing on plants, soil biota and aboveground-belowground links in Atlantic mountain grasslands
- Lur Epelde
- , Anders Lanzén
- & Carlos Garbisu
-
Article
| Open AccessGrassland Carbon Budget and Its Driving Factors of the Subtropical and Tropical Monsoon Region in China During 1961 to 2013
- Li Zhang
- , GuangSheng Zhou
- & YongFei Bai
-
Article
| Open AccessEffect of population, collection year, after-ripening and incubation condition on seed germination of Stipa bungeana
- Rui Zhang
- , J. M. Baskin
- & Yanrong Wang
-
Article
| Open AccessFiltering effect of temporal niche fluctuation and amplitude of environmental variations on the trait-related flowering patterns: lesson from sub-Mediterranean grasslands
- Andrea Catorci
- , Karina Piermarteri
- & Federico Maria Tardella
-
Article
| Open AccessChanges in specific leaf area of dominant plants in temperate grasslands along a 2500-km transect in northern China
- Mengzhou Liu
- , Zhengwen Wang
- & Xingguo Han
-
Article
| Open AccessResponse of ecosystem CO2 fluxes to grazing intensities – a five-year experiment in the Hulunber meadow steppe of China
- R. R. Yan
- , H. J. Tang
- & S. Zhao