Effects and relationships of grazing intensity on multiple ecosystem services in the Inner Mongolian steppe

Fan, Fan; Liang, Cunzhu; Tang, Yongkang; Harker-Schuch, Inez; Porter, John R.

doi:10.1016/j.scitotenv.2019.04.279

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“…Grasslands in China cover roughly 40% of the country's total land area and account for approximately 6%–8% of the world's total area and 9%–16% of its C stocks (Fan et al., 2008; Tang et al., 2019). Grassland is also the largest terrestrial ecosystem in China, and thus critical to various ecological services, such as C sequestration, water conservation, and livestock production (Fan et al., 2019; Hao & He, 2019).…”

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confidence: 99%

Light grazing facilitates carbon accumulation in subsoil in Chinese grasslands: A meta‐analysis

Jiang

Lai

et al. 2020

Global Change Biology

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Grazing by livestock greatly affects the soil carbon (C) cycle in grassland ecosystems. However, the effects of grazing at different intensities and durations on the dynamics of soil C in its subsoil layers are not clearly understood. Here, we compiled data from 78 sites (in total 122 published studies) to examine the effects of varying grazing intensities and durations on soil C content at different depths for grasslands in China.

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Section: Introductionmentioning

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Light grazing facilitates carbon accumulation in subsoil in Chinese grasslands: A meta‐analysis

Jiang

Lai

et al. 2020

Global Change Biology

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“…Overall, the total value of ES in Lingqiu County remained above 2 billion yuan (Figure 2), indicating that a slight change in land use had no significant negative impact on the whole county's ecosystem. According to previous studies, the ecological lands could provide more indirect ES (regulating services, including GR, CR, EP, and HR; cultural services that include landscape esthetics) than non-ecological lands (Fan et al 2019;Chen, 2020). This indicates that Lingqiu possessed many potential ecosystem services, such as the regulating and cultural services of ecological land, which could be transformed into market values because of the availability of abundant natural resources.…”

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“…The EST could range from negative infinity to positive infinity; a negative value indicates that the "food production" is dominant, while a positive value indicates that it is not dominant. The absolute EST value reflects the degree of the trade-offs levels (Fan et al 2019).…”

Section: Analysis Of the Trade-offs Of Ecosystem Service Based On Lulc (Land Use/land Cover)mentioning

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Linking ecosystem services and economic development for optimizing land use change in the poverty areas

Wei

Li³

et al. 2021

Ecosyst Health Sustain

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For the sustainable development of human beings and society, it is important to conserve the ecosystems and alleviate poverty in the low agricultural productivity or ecologically vulnerable areas. To avoid the decrease in ecosystem services (ES) under the effects associated with reducing poverty, we need to carefully consider the relationship between land use changes and the economic development in economically poor areas. We selected the Lingqiu County as our study area, which is a national impoverished county in China, and analyzed the impact of poverty alleviation efforts on the ecological and economic sustainability in the region through ES evaluation. The results showed that land use change in the Lingqiu County has not changed the ES significantly during 2007-2016. The gross domestic product (GDP) growth rate (15.81%) during 2001-2016, indicates the effectiveness of the poverty alleviation efforts implemented. The rise in the index of ecological and economic relationship during 2001-2016 (from 0.2389 to 0.3629) maintains in a harmonious coordination situation. Presently, the value of ES has not been converted to market-based benefits, and therefore, it is indispensable to find a marketplace for ES (in an innovative way) to promote the high-quality sustainable development of a local economy.

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“…Within each site, three 1 × 1 m quadrats were randomly selected, and all living vascular plants in the quadrats were harvested by clipping to 1 cm stubble height, sorted to species, dried in an oven at 60 • C for 48 h and then weighed. After harvesting the aboveground portion, the belowground biomass was obtained by extracting a cylindrical soil core with a depth of 0-70 cm, and then soil samples were collected after removing the plant roots [55]. After washing the soil on the surface, the collected roots were dried in an oven at 60 • C to a constant weight.…”

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Effect of Grazing Types on Community-Weighted Mean Functional Traits and Ecosystem Functions on Inner Mongolian Steppe, China

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The relationships between community-weighted mean (CWM) functional traits and ecosystem functions have been extensively studied. However, how CWM traits and ecosystem functions respond to grazing types and whether the relationships between CWM traits and ecosystem functions mediate the response of ecosystem functions to grazing types remains controversial. In the present study, we set up a seven-year grazing experiment with four grazing types: no grazing (NG), cattle grazing (CG), sheep grazing (SG), and mixed grazing by sheep and cattle (MG) on Inner Mongolia grassland. Nine functional traits of dominant species and five ecosystem functions under different grazing types were determined, and the relationships between CWM traits and ecosystem functions were analyzed. The results showed that the CWM height decreased after grazing, while the CWM nitrogen and phosphorus contents increased after CG. SG caused a greater decrease in aboveground biomass (AGB) and a greater increase in the net ecosystem CO2 exchange (NEE) of grassland ecosystems than did CG. This result may be partially because the CWM nutrient content and NEE were more negatively related after CG; and the increase in the CWM nitrogen and phosphorus contents suppressed NEE after CG. Therefore, to protect the sustainability of grassland ecosystem functions, SG should be reduced. Additionally, our work emphasizes that the relationships between plant functional traits and ecosystem functions may mediate the response of ecosystem functions to grazing types.

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Effects and relationships of grazing intensity on multiple ecosystem services in the Inner Mongolian steppe

Cited by 65 publications

References 53 publications

Light grazing facilitates carbon accumulation in subsoil in Chinese grasslands: A meta‐analysis

Light grazing facilitates carbon accumulation in subsoil in Chinese grasslands: A meta‐analysis

Linking ecosystem services and economic development for optimizing land use change in the poverty areas

Effect of Grazing Types on Community-Weighted Mean Functional Traits and Ecosystem Functions on Inner Mongolian Steppe, China

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