Two-phase functional redundancy in plant communities along a grazing gradient in Mongolian rangelands

Ecology

Volumn 90, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 2598-2608

  Sasaki, Takehiro ^a,c   Okubo, Satoru ^a   Okayasu, Tomoo ^a   Jamsran, Undarmaa ^b   Ohkuro, Toshiya ^a   Takeuchi, Kazuhiko ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b MONGOLIAN UNIVERSITY OF LIFE SCIENCES   (Mongolia)

^c TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Arid and semi arid rangelands; Ecosystem functioning; Functional diversity; Functional redundancy; Grazing history; Intermediate disturbance hypothesis; Mongolia; Plant functional trait; Sigmoid logistic curve; Species richness

Indexed keywords

ARID ENVIRONMENT; DISTURBANCE; ECOSYSTEM FUNCTION; FUNCTIONAL GROUP; GRAZING PRESSURE; LIVESTOCK; LOCAL EXTINCTION; PLANT COMMUNITY; RANGELAND; SEMIARID REGION; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES RICHNESS;

AGRICULTURE; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CLASSIFICATION; ECOSYSTEM; MONGOLIA; PLANT; PLANT PHYSIOLOGY; SHEEP;

AGRICULTURE; ANIMALS; ECOSYSTEM; MONGOLIA; PLANT PHYSIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; PLANTS; SHEEP;

ASIA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; MONGOLIA;

EID: 69449084287     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/08-1850.1     Document Type: Article

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