Assessing facilitative responses to a nurse shrub at the community level: The example of Potentilla fruticosa in a sub-alpine grassland of northwest China

Plant Biology

Volumn 12, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 780-787

  Xu, J ^a   Michalet, R ^b,c   Zhang, J L ^a   Wang, G ^a   Chu, C J ^a   Xiao, S ^a  

^a LANZHOU UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE BORDEAUX   (France)

^c NORTHERN ARIZONA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Ecological attributes; Facilitation; Functional groups; Regional altitudinal distribution; Soil moisture; Soil temperature; Species richness

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY RESPONSE; DOMINANCE; ENVIRONMENTAL GRADIENT; FACILITATION; FUNCTIONAL GROUP; GRASSLAND; GROWTH RESPONSE; LATITUDE; NURSE PLANT; SHRUB; SOIL MOISTURE; SOIL TEMPERATURE; SPECIES RICHNESS; SUBALPINE ENVIRONMENT;

CHINA; QINGHAI-XIZANG PLATEAU;

POTENTILLA; POTENTILLA FRUTICOSA;

ARTICLE; BIOMASS; CHINA; CLIMATE; ECOSYSTEM; PHYSIOLOGY; POACEAE; POTENTILLA; SOIL; TEMPERATURE;

BIOMASS; CHINA; CLIMATE; ECOSYSTEM; POACEAE; POTENTILLA; SOIL; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 78049406267     PISSN: 14358603     EISSN: 14388677     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1438-8677.2009.00271.x     Document Type: Article

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