Frontier in Grassland Ecosystem and Biodiversity
A special issue of Applied Sciences (ISSN 2076-3417). This special issue belongs to the section "Environmental Sciences".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (20 May 2022) | Viewed by 1719
Special Issue Editors
Interests: biodiversity and ecosystem functioning; biodiversity maintenance mechanisms; grassland restoration and utilization; functional diversity
Interests: effects of grassland diversity loss; degraded grassland restoration; grassland soil seed bank
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
We are inviting submissions to this Special Issue on “Frontiers in Grassland Ecosystems and Biodiversity”. As one of the most important and largest terrestrial ecosystems in the world, grasslands play vital roles in biodiversity maintenance, carbon sequestration, food supply, soil and water conservation, windbreak and sand fixation, etc., but grasslands are subject to varying degrees of degradation due to global climate change and human activity.
In this Special Issue, we invite submissions exploring:
1) Grassland ecosystem protection and sustainable utilization;
2) Grassland biodiversity maintenance mechanisms;
3) Effects and drivers of grassland biodiversity loss;
4) Relationship between biodiversity and ecosystem functioning;
5) Relationship between biodiversity and ecosystem stability;
6) Grassland ecosystem structure and functions under global change;
7) Grassland ecosystem services;
8) Grassland ecosystem multifunctionality;
9) Degraded grassland restoration theories and technologies;
10) Grassland ecosystem adaptive management.
Prof. Dr. Wei Li
Dr. Xianhui Zhou
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- grassland ecosystem
- biodiversity maintenance
- ecosystem structure and functioning
- ecosystem stability
- ecosystem multifunctionality
- grassland restoration
- grassland utilization
- grassland management