As a dominant land use in grasslands, grazing acts as a key driver of ecosystem structure and function

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Sourced from the conclusions and abstract of the source papers, classified as general, drawn from work published between 2011 and 2025, spanning 3 journals. Those papers have been cited 63 times in total.

Supporting evidence — 4 representative gaps

• Infiltration Characteristics and Hydrodynamic Parameters in Response to Topographic Factors in Bare Soil Surfaces, Laboratory Experiments Based on Cropland Fields of Purple Soil in Southwest China (2024) · Agriculture · cited 6× · doi

  These findings highlight the importance of hydrodynamic parameters and infiltration characteristics in response to topographic factors in bare soil surface, whereas further research is needed to examine the hydrological processes response of different vegetation-covered based on long-term field experiments.

  generalconclusions
  Keywords: response highlight importance hydrodynamic parameters infiltration characteristics topographic factors bare soil surface further needed examine
• Effects of animal grazing on vegetation biomass and soil moisture on a typical steppe in Inner Mongolia, China (2021) · Ecohydrology · cited 27× · doi

  With this said, research into grassland ecological processes mostly consists of single‐factor controlled experiments such as precipitation, temperature or grazing, and few studies have investigated the effects of synergistic interactions between multiple factors on grassland hydrological, soil and vegetation processes.

  generalabstractevidence 5/5
  Keywords: grassland processes said ecological mostly consists single factor controlled experiments precipitation temperature grazing investigated effects
• Soil moisture and ecosystem function responses of desert grassland varying in vegetative cover to a saturating precipitation pulse (2011) · Ecohydrology · cited 24× · doi

  ABSTRACT A critical linkage between hydrological and ecological processes is plant cover, yet the ecosystem‐level responses of aridland systems of varying plant cover to extreme precipitation events, predicted to increase in the future, have not been well studied.

  generalabstractevidence 4/5
  Keywords: plant cover abstract critical linkage hydrological ecological processes ecosystem level responses aridland systems varying extreme
• Responses of soil aggregate characteristics to grazing intensity differ between topsoil and subsoil in a typical steppe (2025) · Frontiers in Environmental Science · cited 6× · doi

  As a dominant land use in grasslands, grazing acts as a key driver of ecosystem structure and function, yet the responses of aggregate size distribution and stability to grazing intensity across soil depths remain insufficiently understood.

  generalabstractevidence 4/5
  Keywords: grazing dominant land grasslands acts driver ecosystem structure function responses aggregate size distribution stability intensity

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