The response of culturally important plants to experimental warming and clipping in Pakistan Himalayas
The relative effects of climate warming with grazing on medicinally important plants are not fully understood in Hindukush-Himalaya (HKH) region. Therefore, we combined the indigenous knowledge about culturally important therapeutic plants and climate change with experimental warming (open-top chamb...
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ftqataruniv:oai:qspace.qu.edu.qa:10576/57944 2024-09-15T18:31:10+00:00 The response of culturally important plants to experimental warming and clipping in Pakistan Himalayas Karimi, Saira Nawaz, Muhammad Ali Naseem, Saadia Akrem, Ahmed Ali, Hussain Dangles, Olivier Ali, Zahid application/pdf http://hdl.handle.net/10576/57944 https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0237893 https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?partnerID=HzOxMe3b&scp=85105352337&origin=inward en eng Public Library of Science http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0237893 Karimi, S., Nawaz, M. A., Naseem, S., Akrem, A., Ali, H., Dangles, O., & Ali, Z. (2021). The response of culturally important plants to experimental warming and clipping in Pakistan Himalayas. Plos one, 16(5), e0237893. https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?partnerID=HzOxMe3b&scp=85105352337&origin=inward http://hdl.handle.net/10576/57944 5 May 16 plants Article ftqataruniv https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0237893 2024-08-27T14:05:04Z The relative effects of climate warming with grazing on medicinally important plants are not fully understood in Hindukush-Himalaya (HKH) region. Therefore, we combined the indigenous knowledge about culturally important therapeutic plants and climate change with experimental warming (open-top chambers) and manual clipping (simulated grazing effect) and compared the relative difference on aboveground biomass and percent cover of plant species at five alpine meadow sites on an elevation gradient (4696 m-3346 m) from 2016- 2018. Experimental warming increased biomass and percent cover throughout the experiment. However, the interactive treatment effect (warming x clipping) was significant on biomass but not on percent cover. These responses were taxa specific. Warming induced an increase of 1 ± 0.6% in Bistorta officinalis percent cover while for Poa alpina it was 18.7 ± 4.9%. Contrastingly, clipping had a marginally significant effect in reducing the biomass and cover of all plant species. Clipping treatment reduced vegetation cover & biomass by 2.3% and 6.26%, respectively, but that was not significant due to the high variability among taxa response at different sites. It was found that clipping decreased the effects of warming in interactive plots. Thus, warming may increase the availability of therapeutic plants for indigenous people while overgrazing would have deteriorating effects locally. The findings of this research illustrate that vegetation sensitivity to warming and overgrazing is likely to affect man-environment relationships, and traditional knowledge on a regional scale. Article in Journal/Newspaper Poa alpina Qatar University: QU Institutional Repository PLOS ONE 16 5 e0237893 |
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The relative effects of climate warming with grazing on medicinally important plants are not fully understood in Hindukush-Himalaya (HKH) region. Therefore, we combined the indigenous knowledge about culturally important therapeutic plants and climate change with experimental warming (open-top chambers) and manual clipping (simulated grazing effect) and compared the relative difference on aboveground biomass and percent cover of plant species at five alpine meadow sites on an elevation gradient (4696 m-3346 m) from 2016- 2018. Experimental warming increased biomass and percent cover throughout the experiment. However, the interactive treatment effect (warming x clipping) was significant on biomass but not on percent cover. These responses were taxa specific. Warming induced an increase of 1 ± 0.6% in Bistorta officinalis percent cover while for Poa alpina it was 18.7 ± 4.9%. Contrastingly, clipping had a marginally significant effect in reducing the biomass and cover of all plant species. Clipping treatment reduced vegetation cover & biomass by 2.3% and 6.26%, respectively, but that was not significant due to the high variability among taxa response at different sites. It was found that clipping decreased the effects of warming in interactive plots. Thus, warming may increase the availability of therapeutic plants for indigenous people while overgrazing would have deteriorating effects locally. The findings of this research illustrate that vegetation sensitivity to warming and overgrazing is likely to affect man-environment relationships, and traditional knowledge on a regional scale. |
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The response of culturally important plants to experimental warming and clipping in Pakistan Himalayas |
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The response of culturally important plants to experimental warming and clipping in Pakistan Himalayas |
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The response of culturally important plants to experimental warming and clipping in Pakistan Himalayas |
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0237893 Karimi, S., Nawaz, M. A., Naseem, S., Akrem, A., Ali, H., Dangles, O., & Ali, Z. (2021). The response of culturally important plants to experimental warming and clipping in Pakistan Himalayas. Plos one, 16(5), e0237893. https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?partnerID=HzOxMe3b&scp=85105352337&origin=inward http://hdl.handle.net/10576/57944 5 May 16 |
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