Patterns of plant biodiversity in the woodland-steppe ecotone in Southeastern Inner Mongolia

Contemporary Problems of Ecology

Volumn 2, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 322-329

  Liu, Hongyan ^a   Cui, Haiting ^a  

^a PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Holocene; Inner Mongolia; Landscape diversity; Plant species diversity; Woodland steppe ecotone

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; CLIMATE CONDITIONS; ECOTONE; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; HOLOCENE; PALEOECOLOGY; RECONSTRUCTION; SPECIES DIVERSITY; STEPPE; WOODLAND;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; NEI MONGGOL;

EID: 70350596057     PISSN: 19954255     EISSN: 19954263     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1134/S1995425509040043     Document Type: Article

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