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• W2218732004 abstract "Grassland ecosystems occupy approximately 40% of the earth’s terrestrial area and represent one of most important ecosystems on Earth in terms of its impacts on global food supply, carbon sequestration and maintaining biodiversity. Grassland ecosystems are very sensitive to disturbances caused by either climatic or anthropogenic changes such as changes in precipitation regimes or management practices. The objective of this dissertation is to investigate the impacts imposed by grassland restoration activities and changes in precipitation anomalies on the steppe in China’s Loess Plateau and the mixed-grass prairie in southwest Oklahoma. In chapter two, I analyzed how large-scale vegetation conservation programs affected the grassland dynamics in China’s Loess Plateau by combining remotely sensed data with socio-economic statistics. The results of this study showed that the impact of vegetation conservation programs on vegetation change in the Loess Plateau is twofold. On the one hand, vegetation conservation programs target marginal lands. Thus, significant vegetation increases due to cropland conversion and afforestation can be found in these regions. On the other hand, intensified agricultural production can be found in croplands with suitable topography and well-established irrigation systems which were not enrolled in conservation programs to offset the agricultural production loss caused by vegetation conservation programs elsewhere. In chapter three, I demonstrated a new methodology on mapping the historical distribution of grassland species in southwest Oklahoma based on the Random Forest classification algorithm. In this study, elevation, soil pH and soil clay content were found to be significant variables for predicting the distribution of C3 and C4 grassland species. With the mapped distribution of grassland species between 1981 and 2010, in chapter four, I examined the relationship between changes in precipitation anomalies and the dynamics of relative abundance of C3 and C4 grassland species in southwest Oklahoma. In this study, significant decreases of C3/C4 ratio were identified in pasture/hay fields due to the increases in C4 abundance resulting from the decreases of sparsely vegetated area between 2005 and 2010. I suspect that the increase in C4 abundance was a drought adaptation strategy adopted by ranchers. Because C4 species are more tolerant of drought conditions and thus can help to maintain stable forage/hay production when negative precipitation anomalies prevailed during the growing season of C3 species." @default.
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• W2218732004 title "INVESTIGATING THE IMPACTS OF ANTHROPOGENIC AND CLIMATIC CHANGES ON THE STEPPE ECOSYSTEM IN CHINA’S LOESS PLATEAU AND THE MIXED-GRASS PRAIRIE REGION IN SOUTHWEST OKLAHOMA, USA" @default.
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