NDLI: Data from: Livestock grazing regulates ecosystem multifunctionality in semi‐arid grassland (Dataset)

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Data from: Livestock grazing regulates ecosystem multifunctionality in semi‐arid grassland (Dataset)

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Author	Ren, Haiyan Eviner, Valerie T. Gui, Weiyang Wilson, Gail W.T. Cobb, Adam B. Yang, Gaowen Zhang, Yingjun Hu, Shuijin Bai, Yongfei Wilson, Gail W. T.
Abstract	1. Ecological theories and experimental evidence indicate that human activity induced losses in biodiversity can have substantial impacts on multiple ecosystem functions. It remains unclear, however, how grazing affects grassland biodiversity and ecosystem multifunctionallity (EMF). 2. Here, we assessed the grazing effects on different dimensions of biodiversity (i.e. plants and soil microbes) and EMF based on a 11-year field experiment in a semi-arid grassland. 3. We found that soil organic C, available nitrogen, and plant functional diversity all decreased even at low grazing intensity while aboveground primary production and bacterial abundance decreased only at high levels of grazing intensity. Grazing pressure effects on EMF can be well predicted by changes in plant functional diversity. 4. Structural equation models reveal that EMF was dominated by grazing pressure and was not directly affected by plant or microbial composition. 5. Synthesis. Our results showed that ecosystem functions differ in their sensitivity to grazing intensity, limiting the effectiveness of a target grazing level to achieve multiple goals in the Eurasian steppe. These findings suggest that grazing-induced alterations in interactions among plants, microbes and environmental factors critically affect the grazing threshold and deserve some major attention in decision-making for grazing.
File Size	72247
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ISSN	13652435
DOI	10.5061/dryad.j87b5b8
Alternate Webpage(s)	https://datadryad.org/stash/downloads/file_stream/51944
Language	English
Publisher Date	2019-09-04
Access Restriction	Open
Subject Keyword	Threshold Grazing Pressure Soil Microbes Semi-arid Grassland
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Data Set
Subject	Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics

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