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#Microbialnecromassnitrogen is the core source of soil nitrogen in #alpinegrasslands, and the contribution of soil properties to its changes is greater than that of plant and microbial factors.

#nitrogenadditiongradient | #nonlinearresponse | #mineralprotection

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September 25, 2026 at 4:59 PM
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【🎉Latest accepted article】
Soil water availability dominates the sustainability of carbon flux under #Heatwave in Qinghai–Xizang Plateau #AlpineGrasslands

#AlpineMeadow | #AlpineWetland | #Stability | #LegacyImpacts | #EddyCovariance

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June 1, 2026 at 3:56 PM
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❇️ #Rest-grazing in spring ➡️ #SoilMicrobialCommunity🟰 Effect❓
Place: #AlpineGrasslands
Results:
1️⃣ Increased #AbovegroundBiomass ➡️ Improved #PlantDiversity;
2️⃣ Increased #SoilOrganicCarbon ➡️ restored #SoilProperties.
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Map of the study area, experimental layout and before and after rest-grazing of StM and SwM. Correlation between soil microorganisms of (a, f) Total PLFAs, (b, g) Act, (c, h) Bacteria, (d, i) Fungi, (e, j) AMF and above-/below-ground biomass in StM and SwM in different years of rest-grazing.
May 24, 2025 at 10:45 PM
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【🎉Latest accepted article】
Drivers of #AsymbioticNitrogenFixation across #AlpineGrasslands

#NicheBreadth | #NifHGene | #Stoichiometry

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June 21, 2026 at 3:07 PM
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Ke Zhang et al. explored geographic patterns in the abundance, diversity and community composition of #PhyllosphereMicrobiota and their functions.

#Biogeography | #MicrobialNetwork | #EcosystemMultifunctionality | #AlpineGrasslands

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May 5, 2026 at 2:57 PM
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#PhyllosphereMicrobiota showed a significant non-linear environmental gradient effect in #AlpineGrasslands on the Qinghai–Tibetan Plateau, which was mostly explained by climate factors, especially annual precipitation.

#Biogeography | #MicrobialNetwork

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Co-occurrence networks at each site.
February 20, 2026 at 4:15 PM
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Qingling Sun developed a semi-mechanistic #PhenologicalModel, the Alpine #GrowingSeasonIndex (AGSI), to predict foliar phenology in #AlpineGrasslands on the Qinghai–Tibetan Plateau.

#ClimaticFactor | #LimitingEffect

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Spatial distribution of the most predominant climatic controls on leaf onset and offset dates of alpine grasslands on the QTP, identified based on the AGSI model using (a–f) ground-based and (g–l) satellite-based parameter values, respectively.
September 6, 2025 at 3:37 PM
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【🎉Latest accepted article】
#PhyllosphereMicrobiota in #AlpineGrasslands on Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau varied with geographical and climatic factors

#Biogeography | #MicrobialNetwork | #EcosystemMultifunctionality

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Phyllosphere microbiota in alpine grasslands on Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau varied with geographical and climatic factors
Abstract. The phyllosphere microbiota greatly affects ecosystem carbon and nitrogen cycles, plant productivity, and stress tolerance. However, the microbia
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August 30, 2025 at 3:32 PM
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#Warming🌡️ & #Grazing🌱 ➡️ resource allocation strategies in #AlpineGrasslands

Place: Tibetan Plateau

Method: #meta-analysis

Results:
1️⃣ The aboveground and belowground growth relationship follows the allometric growth hypothesis;
2️⃣ Warming & grazing ➡️ soil properties.

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Effect of warming, grazing and their interaction on plant biomass allocation and soil properties in alpine grassland (mean ± 95% CI).
August 11, 2025 at 3:42 PM
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💡 An ‼️improved‼️ #GrowingSeasonIndex of #AlpineGrasslands on the #Qinghai–TibetanPlateau
Characteristics: including 1️⃣ #MaximumTemperature, 2️⃣ #Precipitation, 3️⃣ #Photoperiod
Function: predicting #FoliarPhenology
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Sketch map showing the identification of leaf onset date (indicated by A) and leaf offset date (indicated by B) based on the AGSI curve and an AGSI threshold (AGSIthr).
May 29, 2025 at 10:36 PM
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Le Sun et al. pointed that the trade-off pattern of #Biomass of #AlpineGrasslands is not only determined by plant community traits and functions on the #TibetanPlateau, but also regulated by #Precipitation regimes.
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Summary conceptual model of the regulation of plant community traits and functions along the precipitation gradient in response to biomass trade-offs.
May 1, 2025 at 10:39 PM
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Ge Hou et al. found that the #DominantSpecies predominated #CommunityStability by promoting the community #DominantSpeciesStability (DSS) and #SpeciesAsynchrony in the #AlpineGrasslands on the northern #TibetanPlateau. Protecting dominant species can stabilize the ecosystem.
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A schematic diagram of underlying stability mechanisms in the studied alpine grasslands. The width of the bar represents the strength of different effects.
April 20, 2025 at 9:09 PM
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Qianxin Jiang et al. found that species in #AlpineGrasslands can maintain #CommunityBiomassStability via #AsynchronyDynamics of species under different #Warming conditions.
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The relationship between grass and forbs of the dominant species changes over time (created with BioRender.com).
February 10, 2025 at 9:08 PM