Short-term grazing exclusion has no impact on soil properties and nutrients of degraded alpine grassland in Tibet, China
Since the 1980s, alpine grasslands have been seriously degraded on the Tibetan Plateau. Grazing exclusion by fencing has been widely adopted to restore degraded grasslands. To clarify the effect of grazing exclusion on soil quality, we investigated soil properties and nutrients by comparing free-gra...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Copernicus Publications
2015-11-01
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Series: | Solid Earth |
Online Access: | http://www.solid-earth.net/6/1195/2015/se-6-1195-2015.pdf |