Vegetation responses along environmental gradients on the Ordos plateau, China

Ecological Research

Volumn 21, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 396-404

  Zheng, Yuanrun ^a,c   Xie, Zhixiao ^b   Jiang, Lianhe ^a   Shimizu, Hideyuki ^c   Rimmington, Glyn M ^d   Zhou, Guangsheng ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF BOTANY   (China)

^b FLORIDA ATLANTIC UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES   (Japan)

^d WICHITA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Ecophysiological properties; Plant community structure; Shrub islands; Soil water content; Species distribution; Temperature; Vegetation distribution patterns

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; DESERTIFICATION; DROUGHT; ECOPHYSIOLOGY; ECOTONE; ENVIRONMENTAL GRADIENT; FIELD SURVEY; PLANT COMMUNITY; PLATEAU; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); REVEGETATION; SOIL WATER; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; SPECIES DIVERSITY; STOMATAL CONDUCTANCE; VEGETATION COVER; WATER USE;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; ORDOS;

ARTEMISIA; ARTEMISIA ORDOSICA; CARAGANA; CARAGANA KORSHINSKII;

EID: 33746435673     PISSN: 09123814     EISSN: 14401703     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11284-005-0132-z     Document Type: Article

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