Significant soil acidification caused by grazing exclusion across China’s grassland areas
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Soil pH is strongly associated with soil biogeochemical cycles and biodiversity in terrestrial ecosystems. Grazing exclusion (GE) has been widely adopted as an effective practice to restore degraded grasslands. However, the effect of GE on soil pH is still poorly understood and remains inconclusive. We synthesized data for 63 sites from the peer‐reviewed literature and 43 additional field sites and investigated the differences in soil pH following grazing exclusion across China’s grasslands. The mean pH across all samples decreased by 0.13 units with grazing exclusion (mean pH 8.15 and 8.02 for the grazed and grazing exclusion groups, respectively, p
Agronomy · Biogeochemical cycle · Biology · Ecosystem · Grassland · Grassland degradation · Grazing · Soil carbon · Soil pH · Soil water · Climate change and permafrost · Environmental Science · Geology and Paleoclimatology Research · Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics · Ecology · Soil Science
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