Impact of plateau pikas (Ochotona curzoniae) on soil properties and nitrous oxide fluxes on the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau

• Yan Zhou ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Yan Zhou, Shengwu Jiao

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Southern Modern Forestry Collaborative Innovation Center/College of Biology and the Environment, Nanjing Forestry University, Nanjing, China, School of Nature Conservation, Beijing Forestry University, Beijing, China

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• Shengwu Jiao ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Yan Zhou, Shengwu Jiao

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations School of Nature Conservation, Beijing Forestry University, Beijing, China, Research Institute of Subtropical Forestry, Chinese Academy of Forestry, Fuyang, China

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• Nana Li,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation School of Nature Conservation, Beijing Forestry University, Beijing, China

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• John Grace,

  Roles Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation School of Geosciences, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

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• Meng Yang,

  Roles Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation School of Nature Conservation, Beijing Forestry University, Beijing, China

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• Cai Lu,

  Roles Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation School of Nature Conservation, Beijing Forestry University, Beijing, China

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• Xuemeng Geng,

  Roles Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation School of Nature Conservation, Beijing Forestry University, Beijing, China

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• Xinwei Zhu,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis

  Affiliation Aba Prefecture Research Institute of Forestry Science and Technology, Aba, China

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• Li Zhang,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis

  Affiliation Aba Prefecture Research Institute of Forestry Science and Technology, Aba, China

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• Guangchun Lei

  Roles Funding acquisition, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: leiguangchunbjfu@gmail.com

  Affiliation School of Nature Conservation, Beijing Forestry University, Beijing, China

  http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1774-7402

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