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Grazing re-engineers the plant-animal-soil carbon pump across topographic gradients

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  • Zhao, Xinzhou
  • Zhou, Yi
  • Li, Lan
  • Hou, Fujiang
  • Nan, Zhibiao

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Grazing systems are critical for global food security but are often implicated in carbon emissions, creating a conflict between production and climate mitigation. This tension is acute in sloping grasslands, where uniform management strategies derived from flat-terrain paradigms fail to address complex biophysical constraints, thereby threatening pastoral livelihoods through resource degradation. Conventional restoration practices often rely on indiscriminate grazing exclusion, neglecting the complex interaction between livestock behavior and landscape topographic gradients.

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  • Zhao, Xinzhou & Zhou, Yi & Li, Lan & Hou, Fujiang & Nan, Zhibiao, 2026. "Grazing re-engineers the plant-animal-soil carbon pump across topographic gradients," Agricultural Systems, Elsevier, vol. 238(C).
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:agisys:v:238:y:2026:i:c:s0308521x26002131
    DOI: 10.1016/j.agsy.2026.104845
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