Above-belowground interactions in alpine ecosystems on the roof of the world.

Data from long-term monitoring, remote sensing, and controlled experiments indicate that climate change is altering and reshaping patterns of vegetation growth, and these changes will have cascading effects on the structure and functioning of alpine ecosystems (Li et al. [14]; Ma et al. [18]; Liu et al. [17]; Wang et al. [25]). Tian et al. ([24]) showed that plant diversity and soil carbon sequestration were differently affected by warm- and cold-season grazing, highlighting the importance of considering the grazing strategies in maintaining ecosystem sustainability. Similarly, Zhao et al. ([36]) found that ecosystem respiration was lower in the bare soil caused by burrowing activities of pika than in vegetated soil. References 1 Bai Y, Ma L, Degen AA, Rafiq MK, Kuzyakov Y, Zhao J, Zhang R, Zhang T, Wang W, Li X, Long R, Shang Z (2020) Long-term active restoration of extremely degraded alpine grassland accelerated turnover and increased stability of soil carbon. [Extracted from the article]