Environmental factors covary with plant diversity-productivity relationships among Chinese grassland sites

Global Ecology and Biogeography

Volumn 19, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 233-243

  Ma, Wenhong ^a   He, Jin Sheng ^a   Yang, Yuanhe ^a   Wang, Xiangping ^a   Liang, Cunzhu ^b   Anwar, Mohammat ^c   Zeng, Hui ^a   Fang, Jingyun ^a   Schmid, Bernhard ^d  

^a PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b INNER MONGOLIA UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c XINJIANG INSTITUTE OF ECOLOGY AND GEOGRAPHY   (China)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Above ground NPP; Alpine grassland; Among site variation; China; Field study; Plant diversity productivity relationship; Species richness; Temperate grassland; Within site variation

Indexed keywords

ABOVEGROUND PRODUCTION; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FIELD SURVEY; GRASSLAND; LEAST SQUARES METHOD; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES RICHNESS; VEGETATION TYPE;

CHINA;

EID: 76249088261     PISSN: 1466822X     EISSN: 14668238     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1466-8238.2009.00508.x     Document Type: Article

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