Effects of grazing management on spatio-temporal heterogeneity of soil carbon and greenhouse gas emissions of grasslands and rangelands: Monitoring …

J Wang, Y Li, EW Bork, GM Richter, C Chen… - Journal of cleaner …, 2021 - Elsevier
Grazing lands provide many goods and ecosystem services, such as forage, livestock, soil
carbon (C) storage, biodiversity, and recreational opportunities. Ensuring the long-term …

Belowground mechanism reveals climate change impacts on invasive clonal plant establishment

S Bam, JP Ott, JL Butler, L Xu - Scientific Reports, 2022 - nature.com
Climate change and disturbance can alter invasion success of clonal plants by differentially
affecting the clonal traits influencing their establishment as young plants. Clonal traits …

Collaborative adaptive rangeland management, multipaddock rotational grazing, and the story of the regrazed grass plant

LM Porensky, DJ Augustine, JD Derner… - Rangeland Ecology & …, 2021 - Elsevier
Frequent, severe defoliation reduces grass production and can alter plant species
composition in grasslands. Multipaddock rotational grazing has been proposed as a grazing …

Episodic herbivory, plant density dependence, and stimulation of aboveground plant production

ME Ritchie, JF Penner - Ecology and evolution, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Herbivory is a major energy transfer within ecosystems; an open question is under what
circumstances it can stimulate aboveground seasonal primary production. Despite multiple …

Drought weakens the positive effects of defoliation on native rhizomatous grasses but enhances the drought‐tolerance traits of native caespitose grasses

R Zhang, MP Schellenberg, G Han… - Ecology and …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
The objective of this study was to evaluate the drought tolerance, compensatory growth, and
different plant traits between two native perennial caespitose grasses and two native …

Different regrowth patterns after repeated clipping in two Mongolian pasture species

R Hu, Y Yoshihara, B Gantsetseg, T Kinugasa - Plant Ecology, 2023 - Springer
We investigated changes in the regrowth patterns of two grass species on the Mongolian
steppe, Agropyron cristatum and Stipa krylovii, in response to repeated clipping and used a …

Adaptive rotational grazing and the story of the regrazed grass plant

LM Porensky, H Wilmer, DJ Augustine, JD Derner… - uknowledge.uky.edu
Porensky, LM a, Wilmer, H. b, Augustine, DJ a, Derner, JD c, Fernández-Giménez, M. d,
Briske, DD e, and the CARM Stakeholder Groupf a USDA-ARS Rangeland Resources and …