Jin-Sheng He

The paper quantifies biases in grassland productivity estimates caused by ignoring herbivore biomass consumption and compensatory growth, finding underestimations of 34-51% and variable biases from 29% underestimation to 19% overestimation.

The paper finds that grazing removal benefits alpine plant populations under current conditions but these benefits are negated by climate warming.

The paper shows that demographic compensation in alpine grassland species buffers population decline under heavy grazing, supporting the Intermediate Disturbance Hypothesis at the population level.