The effect of grazing and reclamation on rodent community stability in the Alxa desert

Ecosystem stability has been of increasing interest in the past several decades as it helps predict consequences anthropogenic disturbances on ecosystems. A wild rodent community under reclamation and different grazing Alxa Desert was investigated using live trapping from 2006 to 2011. We studied composition, diversity, variability life history strategies. These results showed that reduced by temporal community, reducing resistance shown decreasing dominance K SS strategists, increased abundance richness for strategists. Grazing resilience r RF Those may answer three ecological questions about how ecosystems respond a diversity perspective. The with intermediate disturbance are more stable, other words, higher resilience. increase strategists means community.