About this Research Topic
Grasslands serve as an important global reservoir of biodiversity and provide a wide range of material and non-material benefits to humans. These benefits include various ecosystem services, such as food production, biodiversity conservation, climate and water regulation, carbon storage, and global biogeochemical cycles. Grasslands are under severe threat from ongoing degradation, undermining their capacity to support biodiversity, ecosystem services, and human well-being. There are multiple co-occurring drivers of grassland degradation, including overgrazing, eutrophication, land conversion to forestry and crops, land abandonment, invasive species, climate extremes, and altered fire regimes. Despite the importance of grasslands, there has been limited progress in finding solutions to halt and reverse global grassland degradation, compromising sustainable development and ecosystem services. When protected, restored, or managed appropriately, natural and seminatural ecosystems can make critical contributions to mitigating climate change and helping humans adapt to it.
The theme of this Research Topic is to assess the impacts of grassland restoration measures (e.g., herbivore grazing, nutrient fertilization, reseeding, plowing, and other ecological projects) on the structure and function of grassland ecosystems in the context of global climate change. We call for papers from researchers to share new ideas, techniques, and findings on this topic from field experiments, large-scale transect surveys, meta-analyses, alongside remote sensing observations. These findings will provide insights into how the interactions between grassland management and climate change affect ecosystem structure and functions and propose novel solutions to restoration and sustainable grassland management.
We welcome the submission of original research articles, methods, perspectives, reviews and mini-reviews on the following subtopics but are not limited to:
• Changes in ecosystem structure and function in response to various grassland management measures (e.g., herbivore grazing, nutrients fertilization, reseeding, plowing and ecological projects, etc.)
• Vegetation and soil parameters along with degradation and recovery succession
• The trade-offs among ecosystem functions in grassland restored under global climate change
The theme of this Research Topic is to assess the impacts of grassland restoration measures (e.g., herbivore grazing, nutrient fertilization, reseeding, plowing, and other ecological projects) on the structure and function of grassland ecosystems in the context of global climate change. We call for papers from researchers to share new ideas, techniques, and findings on this topic from field experiments, large-scale transect surveys, meta-analyses, alongside remote sensing observations. These findings will provide insights into how the interactions between grassland management and climate change affect ecosystem structure and functions and propose novel solutions to restoration and sustainable grassland management.
We welcome the submission of original research articles, methods, perspectives, reviews and mini-reviews on the following subtopics but are not limited to:
• Changes in ecosystem structure and function in response to various grassland management measures (e.g., herbivore grazing, nutrients fertilization, reseeding, plowing and ecological projects, etc.)
• Vegetation and soil parameters along with degradation and recovery succession
• The trade-offs among ecosystem functions in grassland restored under global climate change
Keywords: grassland management, ecosystem structure and function, vegetation restoration, grassland ecosystem, grass-livestock interaction
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