Optimizing grazing exclusion practices to achieve Goal 15 of the sustainable development goals in the Tibetan Plateau

Affiliations

• ¹ Key Laboratory of Alpine Ecology, Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China.
• ² State Key Laboratory of Urban and Regional Ecology, Research Center for Eco-environmental Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100085, China; State Key Laboratory of Earth Surface Processes and Resource Ecology, Faculty of Geographical Science, Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875, China. Electronic address: bfu@rcees.ac.cn.
• ³ State Key Laboratory of Earth Surface Processes and Resource Ecology, Faculty of Geographical Science, Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875, China.
• ⁴ School of Environment, Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875, China.
• ⁵ State Key Laboratory of Urban and Regional Ecology, Research Center for Eco-environmental Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100085, China.
• ⁶ Key Laboratory of Restoration Ecology for Cold Regions in Qinghai, Northwest Institute of Plateau Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xining 810008, China.
• ⁷ College of Grassland Science and Technology, China Agricultural University, Beijing 100193, China.
• ⁸ Key Laboratory of Aquatic Botany and Watershed Ecology, Wuhan Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan 430074, China.
• ⁹ Qilian Mountain Nature Reserve Bureau of Qinghai Province, Xining 810008, China.