Research Progress on Effects of Grazing on Grassland Plants
Grassland is the basis for the development of grassland animal husbandry in China and an important part of the ecosystem. Grazing is the main way of grassland utilization, the most important factor of human interference with grassland, and has an important impact on grass-land ecosystem service function. Through the related literature on the effect of grazing on grassland plants, we analyze the effect of grazing on plant communities and their diversity, organizational power, biomass, root system, etc., in order to provide some reference for studying the ra-tional use of grassland and the management of degraded grassland. Currently, unreasonable grazing has caused the degradation of grassland and restricted the development of grassland economy. The next step should be to increase the research on zoned rotational grazing, seasonal grazing and reasonable livestock carrying capacity in combination with grassland management techniques such as fertilization, replanting and pine har-rowing.