Acknowledgments
The authors would like to acknowledge the National Natural Science Foundation of China (U20A2007; 3177131141) and the Platform of the Adaptive Management of the Alpine Grassland-livestock System (2020-ZJ-T07) for support. We also wish to thank the anonymous reviewers for valuable comments on the manuscript.
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