The burying and grazing effects of plateau pika on alpine grassland are small: a pilot study in a semiarid basin on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau

Yi, Shuhua; Chen, Jianjun; Qin, Yu; Xu, Gaowei

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-13-6273-2016

Articles | Volume 13, issue 22

https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-13-6273-2016

© Author(s) 2016. This work is distributed under
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https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-13-6273-2016

© Author(s) 2016. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.

Articles | Volume 13, issue 22

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23 Nov 2016

Research article |

| 23 Nov 2016

The burying and grazing effects of plateau pika on alpine grassland are small: a pilot study in a semiarid basin on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau

Shuhua Yi, Jianjun Chen, Yu Qin, and Gaowei Xu

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RC1: 'Comment for authors', Anonymous Referee #1, 08 Jul 2016
RC2: 'comments', Anonymous Referee #2, 15 Jul 2016
AC1: 'Reply to Comments', Shuhua Yi, 02 Sep 2016

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ED: Reconsider after major revisions (17 Sep 2016) by Nobuhito Ohte

AR by Shuhua Yi on behalf of the Authors (06 Oct 2016) Author's response Manuscript

ED: Referee Nomination & Report Request started (25 Oct 2016) by Nobuhito Ohte

RR by Anonymous Referee #1 (26 Oct 2016)

RR by Anonymous Referee #2 (09 Nov 2016)

ED: Publish subject to technical corrections (09 Nov 2016) by Nobuhito Ohte

AR by Shuhua Yi on behalf of the Authors (10 Nov 2016) Author's response Manuscript

Short summary

Plateau pika is common on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau (QTP). Since pika dig burrows and graze on grassland to compete with yaks and sheep, they are believed to be a pest. They have been killed by humans since the 1950s. However, there are no serious studies that quantitatively evaluate the grazing and excavating effects of pika on grassland. With the advancement of UAV technology, we did a pilot study to evaluate the grazing and burying effects of pika.