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Alpine wetland has strong grazing disturbance, which is the main cause of ecosystem degradation. The spatial pattern of wetland vegetation biomass can not only reflect the role of natural factors, but also reflect the main characteristics of human activities such as regional grazing. So it is often used as the main measurement method to characterize the pattern of grazing disturbance. However, the factors affecting vegetation biomass caused by scale effect differ greatly at different spatial scales. Especially for fine⁃scale alpine wetlands with an area ranging from tens to hundreds of km2, the characteristics of the combined effects of natural factors and human disturbance such as grazing on the above⁃ground vegetation biomass are still unclear, and there is a lack of reasonable evaluation model for this type of wetland. This study took Napahai wetland, a Ramsar site in northwestern Yunnan, as an example, and characterized its grazing disturbance pattern through the spatial heterogeneity characteristics of above⁃ground vegetation biomass under the condition of excluding other human disturbances. We also proposed an evaluation model of grazing pattern in fine⁃scale alpine wetlands based on this case. The study attempted to obtain the aboveground biomass of potential vegetation based on a detailed ground vegetation survey and to obtain the actual aboveground biomass of vegetation by using a high⁃resolution quantitative remote sensing method (French PLEIADES satellite data combined with measured vegetation aboveground biomass modeling) during the same period of investigation. Then we used the spatial heterogeneity characteristic of the difference between potential and actual vegetation above⁃ground biomass to represent the Napahai wetland grazing disturbance patterns. The evaluation model can effectively reduce the dependence on fine⁃scale wetland grazing interference data, and reduce the randomness of spatial distribution caused by large livestock such as cattle, sheep, and horses. The results showed that the grazing disturbance seriously affected the aboveground biomass of wetland vegetation, and the impact ratio was about 93.5%. The study also found that the natural factors such as hydrology and anthropogenic disturbances such as grazing determine the upper and lower limits of above⁃ground biomass of vegetation in Napahai Wetland, respectively, and put forward four aspects of interference control strategies based on the research results. © 2024 Science Press. All rights reserved.
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生态学报
ISSN: 1000-0933
Year: 2024
Issue: 9
Volume: 44
Page: 3721-3735
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