Divergent changes in plant community composition under 3-decade grazing exclusion in continental steppe.

An understanding of the factors controlling plant community composition will allow improved prediction of the responses of plant communities to natural and anthropogenic environmental change. Using monitoring data from 1980 to 2009, we quantified the changes in community composition in Leymus chinen...

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Main Authors: Nianpeng He, Xingguo Han, Guirui Yu, Quansheng Chen
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2011-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3206806?pdf=render