Grassland degradation caused by tourism activities in Hulunbuir, Inner Mongolia, China

Le, Cai; Ikazaki, Kenta; Siriguleng,; Kadono, Atsunobu; Kosaki, Takashi

doi:10.1088/1755-1315/18/1/012137

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“…Pastoralism has been the critical source of livelihood on the QTP for centuries. Livestock grazers have been receiving numerous benefits from this profession in the form of wool, milk, meat, income, and fuel to meet their domestic needs on a daily, monthly, and yearly basis [85]. Contrastingly, revenue realized by the sale of meats and milk is believed to outweigh the economic loss so far.…”

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“…The degradation of grasslands on the plateau has caused a decrease in plant diversity, height, cover, and productivity [3,85]. Over the years, a plethora of scientific research has been carried out to assess the effects of grassland degradation on biodiversity-ecosystem function [28,29,33,[86][87][88].…”

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“…Road and railway construction affected the vigilance behavior and initial flight ability of wild birds, and decreased aboveground net primary productivity (ANPP).[2,85,95-98]2. Climate changeIncreased unstable plant biomass; decreased plant cover and aboveground and belowground biomass; stimulated desert exacerbation; declined river water quantity, storage, and flows; decreased grassland quality and species richness, limiting precipitation and temperature; reduced permafrost and glacier receding; altered soil carbon and nitrogen cycling; and transformed alpine meadow into shrubs [25,34,41,55,60,72,73,85,[99][100][101]. 3.…”

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Status and Challenges of Qinghai–Tibet Plateau’s Grasslands: An Analysis of Causes, Mitigation Measures, and Way Forward

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Grassland ecosystems on the Qinghai–Tibet Plateau (QTP) provide numerous ecosystem services and functions to both local communities and the populations living downstream through the provision of water, habitat, food, herbal medicines, and shelter. This review examined the current ecological status, degradation causes, and impacts of the various grassland degradation mitigation measures employed and their effects on grassland health and growth in the QTP. Our findings revealed that QTP grasslands are continually being degraded as a result of complex biotic and abiotic drivers and processes. The biotic and abiotic actions have resulted in soil erosion, plant biomass loss, soil organic carbon loss, a reduction in grazing and carrying capacity, the emergence of pioneer plant species, loss of soil nutrients, and an increase in soil pH. A combination of factors such as overgrazing, land-use changes, invasive species encroachment, mining activities, rodent burrowing activities, road and dam constructions, tourism, migration, urbanization, and climate change have caused the degradation of grasslands on the QTP. A conceptual framework on the way forward in tackling grassland degradation on the QTP is presented together with other appropriate measures needed to amicably combat grassland degradation on the QTP. It is recommended that a comprehensive and detailed survey be carried out across the QTP to determine the percentage of degraded grasslands and hence, support a sound policy intervention.

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Section: Effects Of Grassland Degradation On Plant Species Vegetationmentioning

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Status and Challenges of Qinghai–Tibet Plateau’s Grasslands: An Analysis of Causes, Mitigation Measures, and Way Forward

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“…The change of the cover values affects not only the occurrance of the dominant species but of the species with less cover. The decrease of diversity, the change of plantcover, the decrease of number of sensitive species as a result of tourism are registered all over the world [42,43]. The Shannon's diversity records show that due to human presence and trampling the diversity of the species is reduced.…”

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Correlation between the Diversity and Land Use in Cleared Grassland Areas in the Pannon Mountains

Fehér¹,

Hajnáczki²,

Penksza³

et al. 2015

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Nowadays, mowing has an increasing role in the management of semi-natural and nature conservation areas. Semi-dry grasslands have been planted on cleared areas of forest in the Pannon Mountains, which would be reclaimed by forest without use of the areas by humans. In our work we analysed cleared grasslands. The questions we tried to answer were which changes were caused by different land use, how favourable mowing can be for the purpose of grassland management and nature protection, do the composition of the plant species and the diversity vary within two years when conditions of precipitation are different. In four sampling areas, in 4 × 10 quadrats we registered the plant species and their cover values. We performed a site assessment in April, June and October, 2013-2014. We analysed the data by using cluster and ordination processes and we compared the sampling areas on the basis of the humidity preference and Shannon's index of diversity. According to the results, the composition of species and diversity on the analysed areas used for different purposes considerably deviate from each other. Further, we found a difference between two portions of the area whose had minor deviation in water management.

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“…Whereas changes in grassland species composition and richness are induced by grazing intensity (Bergmeier, et al 2003; Suding, et al 2008), the influence of the latter on plant functional groups at the species level could differ (DÍAz, et al 2007; Díaz, et al 2001; McIntyre, et al 1999; Noy-Meir, et al 1989). However, these results were often inconsistent, more research is needed to improve our understanding of how grazing intensities affects species and plant communities (e.g., the species in the same plant functional group can respond differently to grazing intensity due to palatability or species structure), especially in Hulunbuir grasslands (Foggin 2008; Le, et al 2014).…”

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The Impact Of Long-term Grazing Intensity On Functional Groups Richness, Biomass, And Species Diversity In an Inner Mongolian Steppe Grassland

Zainelabdeen

Ahmed

Yan

et al. 2021

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Livestock grazing is one of the major human activities that cause a change in plant community structure and composition. We studied the effect of different grazing intensities (light, moderate, heavy, and no grazing) on aboveground biomass, species richness, and plant functional group (PFG) diversity. The light, moderate, heavy, and no grazing treatments correspond to 0.23, 0.46, 0.92, and 0.00 Animal Units ha-1 respectively. A total of 78 species classified into eight PFGs (perennial tall grass, perennial short grass, shrubs, legumes, Liliaceae herb, annual/biennial plant, perennial tall forbs and perennial short forbs) were identified. We found that the total species richness increased under light and moderate grazing intensity. However, the responses of each PFG to grazing differed. As grazing intensity increased, so did the richness of short species (perennial short grass, perennial short grass and legume) in the community. The richness of shrub is unaffected by grazing. With increasing grazing intensity, the aboveground biomass of perennial tall grass and perennial tall forbs decreased significantly, while that of annual/biennial plant functional groups increased. The community diversity and evenness of annual/biennial plants increased significantly with grazing intensity. We concluded that heavy grazing has negative impacts on plant functional group richness and aboveground biomass.

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Grassland degradation caused by tourism activities in Hulunbuir, Inner Mongolia, China

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Status and Challenges of Qinghai–Tibet Plateau’s Grasslands: An Analysis of Causes, Mitigation Measures, and Way Forward

Status and Challenges of Qinghai–Tibet Plateau’s Grasslands: An Analysis of Causes, Mitigation Measures, and Way Forward

Correlation between the Diversity and Land Use in Cleared Grassland Areas in the Pannon Mountains

The Impact Of Long-term Grazing Intensity On Functional Groups Richness, Biomass, And Species Diversity In an Inner Mongolian Steppe Grassland

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