Effects of grazing disturbance on plant diversity, community structure and direction of succession in an alpine meadow on Tibet Plateau, China

Abstract To elucidate the effects of grazing intensity and grazing time on plant diversity and community structure, as well as the successional differentiation in an alpine meadow, a controlled grazing trial, with six grazing intensities on an alpine meadow was conducted in the eastern Qilian Mountain region for four years. Using species accumulation curves, RDA ordination and variance decomposition, we analyzed the changes in proportion of dominant species, richness, abundance, as well as the life forms of plant communities under grazing disturbance. Both the grazing intensity and grazing time had a significant effect on these dominant species, richness, abundance, as well as the life forms in the plant community (P

• Publication year

  2018

• Venue

  Acta Ecologica Sinica

• Publication date

  2018-04-01

• Fields of study

  Geography, Environmental Science

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  DOI 10.1016/J.CHNAES.2018.02.007
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