2019
DOI: 10.1002/ecs2.2915
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Effect of altitude and soil properties on biomass and plant richness in the grasslands of Tibet, China, and Manang District, Nepal

Abstract: Citation: Bhandari, J., and Y. Zhang. 2019. Effect of altitude and soil properties on biomass and plant richness in the grasslands of Tibet, China, and Manang District, Nepal.Abstract. A positive relationship between plant species richness and biomass has often documented in temperate grassland systems but is still largely lacking in the Himalayan region. Considering altitude and soil properties as major factors influencing species richness and biomass in the Himalayan grasslands, we tested the hypothesis that… Show more

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“…Here, extrapolations of such a relationship between CO 2 concentration and AGB to larger extents of CO 2 concentrations can lead to substantial uncertainties in estimations of AGB. Second, the local soil (Fay et al, 2012) and climatic (Brookshire and Weaver, 2015) factors can modify the actual CO 2 enrichment effect on AGB, which may also result in large uncertainties in the quantified AGB. For example, any stimulation in plant growth is constrained by the availability of other resources required by plant growth (Reyes-Fox et al, 2014) such as soil water availability (Brookshire and Weaver, 2015).…”
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“…Here, extrapolations of such a relationship between CO 2 concentration and AGB to larger extents of CO 2 concentrations can lead to substantial uncertainties in estimations of AGB. Second, the local soil (Fay et al, 2012) and climatic (Brookshire and Weaver, 2015) factors can modify the actual CO 2 enrichment effect on AGB, which may also result in large uncertainties in the quantified AGB. For example, any stimulation in plant growth is constrained by the availability of other resources required by plant growth (Reyes-Fox et al, 2014) such as soil water availability (Brookshire and Weaver, 2015).…”
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confidence: 99%
“…Second, the local soil (Fay et al, 2012) and climatic (Brookshire and Weaver, 2015) factors can modify the actual CO 2 enrichment effect on AGB, which may also result in large uncertainties in the quantified AGB. For example, any stimulation in plant growth is constrained by the availability of other resources required by plant growth (Reyes-Fox et al, 2014) such as soil water availability (Brookshire and Weaver, 2015). Consequently, the magnitude of the increases in AGB induced by CO 2 enrichment estimated in this study, particularly under RCP8.5, can be largely overestimated due to possible deficiencies of either nutrients or water required by plant growth (S. .…”
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“…Evidences from the datasets independent of remote sensing products may help to disentangle the mysterious spatiotemporal dynamics of AGB at the regional scale. Moreover, existing studies have seldom considered the possible co-regulating effects of soil properties (Jia et al, 2011;Bhandari and Zhang, 2019), grassland types and grazing intensity (Eldridge and Delgado-Baquerizo, 2017) on AGB, which might lead to large uncertainties and biases in these estimations. In addition, little is known about the consequences of the likely future climate change on AGB dynamics across time and space, which is a substantial concern in the context of global warming.…”
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