[1]CHENG Jie,ZHANG Rui,YANG Peizhi,et al.Restoration of Typical Degraded Grassland in Loess Region During 40 Years[J].Research of Soil and Water Conservation,2023,30(01):34-40.[doi:10.13869/j.cnki.rswc.2023.01.026]
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Research of Soil and Water Conservation[ISSN 1005-3409/CN 61-1272/P] Volume:
30
Number of periods:
2023 01
Page number:
34-40
Column:
Public date:
2023-01-10
- Title:
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Restoration of Typical Degraded Grassland in Loess Region During 40 Years
- Author(s):
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CHENG Jie1, ZHANG Rui1, YANG Peizhi2, ZHANG Yuan1, LIU Yushu2, LI Weijun3
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(1.Northwest Surveying, Planning Institute, National Forestry and Grassland Administration, Key Laboratory National Forestry Administration on Ecological Hydrology and Disaster Prevention in Arid Regions, Xian 710048 China; 2.Northwest A&F University, Yangling, Shaanxi 712100, China; 3.Yunwu Mountain Nature Reserve of Ningxia, Guyuan, Ningxia 756000, China)
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- Keywords:
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grassland degradation; grazing exclusion; Loess Plateau; succession
- CLC:
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S812
- DOI:
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10.13869/j.cnki.rswc.2023.01.026
- Abstract:
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Grassland degradation has severely damaged soil and vegetation, and the succession process of grassland has been strongly inhibited. To this end, a long-term(40-year)ban and restoration technology was used in the experiment to explore the characteristics of vegetation changes in the degraded grassland in the loess area after the ban, and to reveal the ecological and environmental effects of the degraded natural grassland after the ban and restoration. The results show that as the closure time changes, the degraded grasslands resume succession. After five stages, the biomass of grassland showed a trend of first increasing and then decreasing, the highest value was 520.5 g/m2 when the ban was restored for 20 years. In the 25th year of the ban, the grassland community with Stipa capillata as the constructive species showed obvious decline and degradation, while the population density of Stipa grandis increased sharply. In the 30~32 years of the ban, the dominant species with Stipa grandis as the community grew more andwasstable. From the perspective of the succession process of the community, Stipa grandis hada tendency to replace Stipa grandis, but the duration wasrelatively short. With the continuation of the closure period, 33 years after the restoration of the degraded grassland from the natural closure, through several successive stages of invasion-competition-diffusion-settlement, a relatively stable ‘sub-type' with the Stipa capillata population as the constructive species hadformed. In addition, the abundance and diversity of grassland species after the ban hadgradually increased. In summary, the closure is conducive to the restoration of the grassland plant ecosystem in the middle reaches of the Yellow River, and as the closure time evolves, the grassland ecosystem gradually stabilizes.