Effects of Grazing on Above- vs. Below-Ground Biomass Allocation of Alpine Grasslands on the Northern Tibetan Plateau

• Published in: PloS one Vol. 10; no. 8; p. e0135173
• Main Authors: Zeng, Chaoxu, Wu, Jianshuang, Zhang, Xianzhou
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States Public Library of Science 18.08.2015; Public Library of Science (PLoS)
• Subjects: Alpine environments; Analysis; Aridity; Biomass; Climate and human activity; Climate Change; Communities; Community structure; Conservation; Dependence; Desert environments; Deserts; Ecological function; Ecology; Ecosystem services; Ecosystems; Efficiency; Environmental changes; Global warming; Grassland; Grasslands; Grazing; Grazing effects; Human influences; Isometric; Laboratories; Livestock; Metapopulations; Natural resources; Net Primary Productivity; Pasture; Pasture management; Pastures; Precipitation; Productivity; Steppes; Sustainability; Tibet; Turnover rate; Variance analysis; Tibet; Beijing China; Tibetan Plateau; China; India

Biomass allocation is an essential concept for understanding above- vs. below-ground functions and for predicting the dynamics of community structure and ecosystem service under ongoing climate change. There is rare available knowledge of grazing effects on biomass allocation in multiple zonal alpin...