Leaf functional traits of dominant desert plants in the Hexi Corridor, Northwestern China: Trade-off relationships and adversity strategies

Desert plants are zonal vegetation with unique functional traits and resource trade-offs in arid areas. The trade-off relationship among functional traits and adversity strategies of desert plants play a key role in their community construction. We investigated 16 leaf functional traits of the domin...

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Main Authors: Shanjia Li, Hui Wang, Wei Gou, James F White, Kathryn L Kingsley, Guoqiang Wu, Peixi Su
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2021-08-01
Series:Global Ecology and Conservation
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Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S235198942100216X