Grazing exclusion is an effective management practice to restore grassland ecosystem
functioning. However, little is known about the role of soil microbial communities in …

Questions Livestock grazing and abiotic environmental factors both shape grassland
systems; however, the relative importance of their impacts on plant species composition and …

In grasslands, grazing can regulate the functional trait composition of plant communities
through intraspecific trait variation and species turnover. However, it is not well understood …

More accurate determination of leaf plasticity induced by the legacy effect of grazing and
immediate ingestion can provide insights on growth–defense tradeoffs, and are of great …

As a grassland type distributed in the desert steppe with warmer climate in the steppe region
of central Asia, Stipa breviflora steppe has the following characteristics, ie transition and …

Previous studies of transgenerational plasticity have demonstrated that long-term
overgrazing experienced by Leymus chinensis, an ecologically dominant, rhizomatous …

In temperate grassland ecosystems, grazing can affect plant growth by foraging, trampling,
and excretion. The ability of dominant plant species to regrow after grazing is critical, since it …

Heavy grazing generally reduces grassland biomass, further decreasing its carbon sink.
Grassland carbon sink is determined by both plant biomass and carbon sink per unit …

Overgrazing directly and indirectly affects soil microorganisms, which can have feedback
effects on plant growth. Little is known about the root metabolites plants produce and …

Long-term overgrazing (OG) is one of the key drivers of global grassland degradation with
severe loss of productivity and ecosystem functions, which may result in stress memory such …