Plant communities: Ecosystem stability in Inner Mongolia

Nature

Volumn 435, Issue 7045, 2005, Pages

  Wang, Shiping ^a,b   Niu, Haishan ^c   Cui, Xiaoyong ^c   Jiang, Shu ^a   Li, Yonghong ^a   Xiao, Xiangming ^d   Wang, Jinzhi ^a   Wang, Guojie ^a   Huang, Dehua ^a   Qi, Qiuhui ^a   Yang, Zonggui ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF BOTANY   (China)

^b NORTHWEST INSTITUTE OF PLATEAU BIOLOGY   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^d UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RAIN;

BIODIVERSITY; BIOMASS; CLASSIFICATION; ECOSYSTEM; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; MONGOLIA; NOTE; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT; POACEAE; POPULATION DYNAMICS; REPRODUCIBILITY; SEASON; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; TIME;

BIODIVERSITY; BIOMASS; ECOSYSTEM; MONGOLIA; PLANTS; POACEAE; POPULATION DYNAMICS; RAIN; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SEASONS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 21744453015     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature03862     Document Type: Article

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