The Kobresia pygmaea ecosystem of the Tibetan highlands – Origin, functioning and degradation of the world's largest pastoral alpine ecosystem

Miehe, Georg; Schleuß, Per-Marten; Seeber, Elke; Babel, W.; Biermann, Tobias; Braendle, Martin; Chen, Fahu; Coners, Heinz; Foken, Thomas; Gerken, Tobias; Graf, Hans-F.; Guggenberger, Georg; Hafner, Silke; Holzapfel, Maika; Ingrisch, Johannes; Kuzyakov, Yakov; Lai, Zhongping; Lehnert, Lukas; Leuschner, Christoph; Gang Li, Xiao; Liu, Jianquan; Liu, Shibin; Ma, Yaoming; Miehe, Sabine; Mosbrugger, Volker; J. Noltie, H.; Schmidt, Joachim; Spielvogel, Sandra; Unteregelsbacher, Sebastian; Yun, Wang; Willinghöfer, Sandra; Xu, Xingliang; Yang, Yongping; Zhang, Shuren; Opgenoorth, Lars; Wesche, Karsten

doi:10.1016/j.scitotenv.2018.08.164

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The Kobresia pygmaea ecosystem of the Tibetan highlands – Origin, functioning and degradation of the world's largest pastoral alpine ecosystem

Published in The Science of The Total Environment • Aug 14, 2018

Authors:

Georg Miehe

Per-Marten Schleuß

Elke Seeber

Abstract

Kobresia (syn. Carex) pygmaea dominated pastures in the eastern Tibetan highlands are the world's largest pastoral alpine ecosystem forming a durable turf cover at 3000-6000 m a.s.l. Kobresia's resilience and competitiveness is based on dwarf habit, predominantly below-ground allocation of photo ass...

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Ecosystem

Rangeland

Vegetation (pathology)

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