Target species rather than plant community tell the success of ecological restoration for degraded alpine meadows

doi:10.1016/j.ecolind.2021.108487

	Target species rather than plant community tell the success of ecological restoration for degraded alpine meadows
	Xu, Yudan ; Dong, Shikui 1,2; Gao, Xiaoxia 3; Wu, Shengnan 1; Yang, Mingyue 2; Li, Shuai 4; Shen, Hao 1; Xiao, Jiannan 2; Zhi, Yangliu 2; Zhao, Xinyue 2; Mu, Zhiyuan 2; Liu, Shiliang 2
	2022
发表期刊	ECOLOGICAL INDICATORS
ISSN	1470-160X
卷号	135
摘要	Ecological conservation and restoration projects in Three-river Headwater Region (TRHR) have been implemented to respond to the serious degradation of alpine meadow ecosystem. Compared with the substantial amount of studies on the recovery of plant communities, soil quality and ecosystem services, few studies have focused on the restoration performance of target species. Therefore, we conducted this study to analyze the dynamics and underlying mechanisms of species richness and aboveground biomass of plant communities and target species. The results showed that restoration actions (grassland cultivation and fencing) did not significantly improve the community aboveground biomass of the degraded alpine meadows, while the actions did significantly promote community species richness, target species richness and target species aboveground biomass. Community species richness (20%-45%) was significantly impacted by the restoration strategies, and community aboveground biomass (31%-53%) was impacted by the mean annual precipitation and mean annual temperature. The species richness (57%) and aboveground biomass (63%) of the target species were directly and indirectly impacted by restoration actions, climatic factors, biotic factors and soil factors. The implications of this study stress that target species should be highlighted in assessing the restoration success of degraded alpine meadows. Integrating climatic factors, target species and other biotic and abiotic indicators could help us better understand and evaluate restoration actions for degraded alpine meadows in the TRHR or other similar regions worldwide.
关键词	Aboveground plant biomass Alpine meadows Grassland restoration Plant community Species richness Target species
学科领域	Biodiversity Conservation ; Environmental Sciences
DOI	10.1016/j.ecolind.2021.108487
收录类别	SCI
语种	英语
WOS关键词	QINGHAI-TIBETAN PLATEAU ; ECOSYSTEM SERVICES ; GRASSLAND RESTORATION ; PRIMARY PRODUCTIVITY ; SOIL FERTILITY ; DIVERSITY ; BIODIVERSITY ; DEGRADATION ; RANGELAND ; POOLS
WOS研究方向	Science Citation Index Expanded (SCI-EXPANDED)
WOS记录号	WOS:000761373600001
出版者	ELSEVIER
文献子类	Article
出版地	AMSTERDAM
EISSN	1872-7034
资助机构	National Science Foundation of China [U20A2007-01] ; Second Tibetan Plateau Scientific Expedition and Research Program [2019QZKK0307] ; Doctoral Research Startup Foundation of Shanxi Agricultural University [2021BQ61, 2021BQ34]
作者邮箱	dongshikui@sina.com
作品OA属性	gold
引用统计	被引频次：5[WOS] [WOS记录] [WOS相关记录]
文献类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://ir.ibcas.ac.cn/handle/2S10CLM1/29018
专题	植被与环境变化国家重点实验室
作者单位	1.Shanxi Agr Univ, Coll Grassland Sci, Jinzhong 030801, Peoples R China 2.Beijing Forestry Univ, Sch Grassland Sci, Beijing 100083, Peoples R China 3.Beijing Normal Univ, Sch Environm, Beijing 100875, Peoples R China 4.Chinese Acad Sci, Inst Bot, State Key Lab Vegetat & Environm Change, Beijing 100093, Peoples R China 5.Shanxi Agr Univ, Coll Resources & Environm, Jinzhong 030801, Peoples R China
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Xu, Yudan,Dong, Shikui,Gao, Xiaoxia,et al. Target species rather than plant community tell the success of ecological restoration for degraded alpine meadows[J]. ECOLOGICAL INDICATORS,2022,135.
APA	Xu, Yudan.,Dong, Shikui.,Gao, Xiaoxia.,Wu, Shengnan.,Yang, Mingyue.,...&Liu, Shiliang.(2022).Target species rather than plant community tell the success of ecological restoration for degraded alpine meadows.ECOLOGICAL INDICATORS,135.
MLA	Xu, Yudan,et al."Target species rather than plant community tell the success of ecological restoration for degraded alpine meadows".ECOLOGICAL INDICATORS 135(2022).

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