Ecosystem responses to mowing manipulations in an arid Inner Mongolia steppe: An energy perspective

Mowing for hay is a widely adopted practice for grasslands utilization and management. However, its effects on energy partitioning have not well been studied. Our primary objective was to examine the role of mowing as a disturbance factor acting on energy partitioning and relationships between community composition/structure and energy fluxes in a typical steppe ecosystem through a long-term field experiment in Inner Mongolia. After four years …