Ecosystem stability and compensatory effects in the Inner Mongolia grassland

By Yongfei Bai, Xingguo Han, Jianguo Wu, Zuozhong Chen, Linghao Li. Nature, 2004

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The Causes and Consequences of Compensatory Dynamics in Ecological Communities (2009, background): “More recent research has confirmed that population fluctuations in grasslands tend to be compensatory and stabilizing (Bai et al. 2004, Tilman et al. 2006).”
Plant functional diversity modulates global environmental change effects on grassland productivity (2018, background): “This ecosystem, limited by both water and nitrogen availability (Bai et al. 2004; Niu et al. 2010), is projected to experience increases in summer precipitation (Sun & Ding 2010) and atmospheric nitrogen deposition (Liu et al.”
Identifying population‐ and community‐level mechanisms of diversity–stability relationships in experimental grasslands (2011, background): “Similarly, Bai et al. (2004) observed positive relationships between the stability of single species populations and plant functional groups and their relative contribution to community biomass in natural grasslands.”
Vegetation response to extreme climate events on the Mongolian Plateau from 2000 to 2010 (2012, background): “Bai et al (2004) suggested that ecosystem stability as measured by the CV of aboveground biomass increased from the species to plant functional group and to the community level for IM grasslands with precipitation from January to July explaining up to 49% of the variation.”
Biodiversity and Ecosystem Functioning (2014, result): “…supported this hypothesis, as have more recent analyses based on larger data sets such as those for Minnesota grasslands and drought (Tilman & Downing 1994), grasslands and nondrought climate variations (Tilman 1996), Mongolian grasslands (Bai et al. 2004), and a Chinese wetland (Li et al. 2013).”
Nitrogen enrichment enhances the dominance of grasses over forbs in a temperate steppe ecosystem (2011, background): “Temperate steppe is a major grassland type in north China and is sensitive to climate change, overgrazing and nutrient supply (Bai et al., 2004; Christensen et al., 2004; Liu et al., 2009).”
Short-term management and stocking rate effects of grazing sheep on herbage quality and productivity of Inner Mongolia steppe (2009, background): “The investigated typical steppe ecosystem is characteristically dominated by the perennial rhizome grass, Leymus chinensis, and the perennial bunchgrass, Stipa grandis (Xiao et al. 1995; Bai et al. 2004).”
Fertilization decreases species diversity but increases functional diversity: A three-year experiment in a Tibetan alpine meadow (2014, background): “In natural and experimental communities, previous studies have documented that plant biodiversity is positively correlated with productivity due to functional complementarity and selection effects (Huston, 1979; Bai et al., 2004; Balvanera et al., 2006; Cardinale et al., 2007).”