Yanfu Bai

Biographic Data

ID7476498
NAMEYanfu Bai
GIVEN NAMESYanfu
FAMILY NAMEBai
SIGNATUREBAI Y
AFFILIATIONSLanzhou University
ORCID0000-0001-9651-8725
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS5
TOTAL CITATIONS0
AUTHOR COUNT5
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2020
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX0

  • Biochar as a Nature‐Based Solution for Sustainable and Drought‐Resilient Grassland Restoration

    Open AccessTahmina Kausar, Feida Sun et al.ARTICLELand Degradation and Development2026

    Climate‐induced drought is accelerating the degradation of alpine grasslands, which cover 50%–60% of the Qinghai–Tibetan Plateau and provide critical ecosystem services including biodiversity conservation, carbon storage, and forage production. Degradation and recurrent drought events can reduce aboveground biomass by up to 73%, severely impairing soil function and ecosystem stability. This review highlights biochar as a nature‐based solution (Nb…

  • Machine Learning Models Based on UAV Oblique Images Improved Above‐Ground Biomass Estimation Accuracy Across Diverse Grasslands on the Qinghai–Tibetan Plateau

    Open AccessFeida Sun, Dewei Chen et al.ARTICLELand Degradation and Development2025

    Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are becoming important tools for modern management and scientific research of grassland resources, especially in the dynamic monitoring of above‐ground biomass (AGB). However, current studies rely mostly on vertical images to construct models, with little consideration given to oblique images. Determination of image acquisition height often relies on experience and intuition, but there is limited comparison of mode…

  • Land parcellation reduced spatial redundancy resulting in grassland degradation

    Open AccessJianXin Jiao, Shanshan Li et al.ARTICLEPeople and Nature2024

    Degradation is the most immediate threat to biodiversity and sustainable livelihoods of global pastoral grasslands. However, we are still uncertain why grassland degradation is enhanced by the land policy of grassland parcellation. We hypothesized that spatial redundancy of the grazing system, that is, parcellation accelerates land fragmentation and reduces spatial redundancy, leads to land degradation. This study aimed to clarify the relationshi…

  • Grazing exclusion altered the pattern of the soil seed bank but not the aboveground vegetation along an altitudinal gradient in alpine grassland

    Open AccessMei Huang, Chao Sang et al.ARTICLELand Degradation and Development2022

    Grazing exclusion by fencing is the principal option to restore degraded grassland, but its effects on recovery and succession of vegetation are not clear, especially in high mountain areas. In this study, we aimed to fill this gap by assessing the effect of seven‐year grazing exclusion on vegetation and soil seed bank along an altitudinal gradient in northern Tibet, China. Species richness, Shannon‐Wiener index and Simpson's diversity index of v…

  • The forb, Ajania tenuifolia , uses soil nitrogen efficiently, allowing it to be dominant over sedges and Graminae in extremely degraded grasslands

    Open AccessRui Zhang, A Allan Degen et al.ARTICLELand Degradation and Development2020

    Plant growth is mainly N‐limited in the alpine grasslands because of slow mineralization of soil organic matter due to low air temperature. Different plant species dominate in soils of different N concentrations. For example, more forbs occur in severely degraded alpine meadows than do sedges and Gramineae. We hypothesized that a more efficient uptake of low soil N by forbs than by sedges and Gramineae was the mechanism that allowed forbs to domi…