Combatting global grassland degradation

RD Bardgett, JM Bullock, S Lavorel… - Nature Reviews Earth & …, 2021 - nature.com
Grasslands are under severe threat from ongoing degradation, undermining their capacity to
support biodiversity, ecosystem services and human well-being. Yet, grasslands are largely …

[HTML][HTML] The role of large wild animals in climate change mitigation and adaptation

Y Malhi, T Lander, E le Roux, N Stevens… - Current Biology, 2022 - cell.com
Two major environmental challenges of our time are responding to climate change and
reversing biodiversity decline. Interventions that simultaneously tackle both challenges are …

Fire frequency drives decadal changes in soil carbon and nitrogen and ecosystem productivity

AFA Pellegrini, A Ahlström, SE Hobbie, PB Reich… - Nature, 2018 - nature.com
Fire frequency is changing globally and is projected to affect the global carbon cycle and
climate,,. However, uncertainty about how ecosystems respond to decadal changes in fire …

Comment on “The global tree restoration potential”

JW Veldman, JC Aleman, ST Alvarado, TM Anderson… - Science, 2019 - science.org
Bastin et al.'s estimate (Reports, 5 July 2019, p. 76) that tree planting for climate change
mitigation could sequester 205 gigatonnes of carbon is approximately five times too large …

Plant sizes and shapes above and belowground and their interactions with climate

SJ Tumber‐Dávila, HJ Schenk, E Du… - New …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Although the above and belowground sizes and shapes of plants strongly influence plant
competition, community structure, and plant–environment interactions, plant sizes and …

Soil carbon in tropical savannas mostly derived from grasses

Y Zhou, B Bomfim, WJ Bond, TW Boutton, MF Case… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Tropical savannas have been increasingly targeted for carbon sequestration by
afforestation, assuming large gains in soil organic carbon (SOC) with increasing tree cover …

Direct and indirect effects of invasive species: Biodiversity loss is a major mechanism by which an invasive tree affects ecosystem functioning

TEW Linders, U Schaffner, R Eschen… - Journal of …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Global change, such as exotic invasions, dramatically affects ecosystem functioning.
However, the mechanisms behind the impacts are often unclear and despite extensive …

Can large herbivores enhance ecosystem carbon persistence?

JA Kristensen, JC Svenning, K Georgiou… - Trends in Ecology & …, 2022 - cell.com
There is growing interest in aligning the wildlife conservation and restoration agenda with
climate change mitigation goals. However, the presence of large herbivores tends to reduce …

[PDF][PDF] 土地利用变化对土壤有机碳贮量的影响

吴建国, 张小全, 徐德应 - 2004 - researchgate.net
通过对比分析六盘山林区典型天然次生林(杂灌林, 山杨和辽东栎林) 与农田, 草地及农田,
草地与人工林(13, 18 和25 年生华北落叶松) 邻近样地土壤有机碳含量和密度及其在土壤剖面上 …

Desertification

A Mirzabaev, J Wu, J Evans, F García-Oliva… - 2019 - philpapers.org
Abstract IPCC SPECIAL REPORT ON CLIMATE CHANGE AND LAND (SRCCL) Chapter 3:
Climate Change and Land: An IPCC special report on climate change, desertification, land …