Community structure and composition in response to climate change in a temperate steppe

Global Change Biology

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 452-465

  Yang, Haijun ^a,b   Wu, Mingyu ^a   Liu, Weixing ^a   Zhang, Zhe ^a,b   Zhang, Naili ^a   Wan, Shiqiang ^a,c  

^a INSTITUTE OF BOTANY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^c HENAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Diversity; Grassland; Plant functional group; Temperature; Water availability

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE EFFECT; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; ECOSYSTEM FUNCTION; ECOSYSTEM RESPONSE; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; PLANT COMMUNITY; PRECIPITATION INTENSITY; SEMIARID REGION; SOIL MOISTURE; SPECIES RICHNESS; STEPPE; TEMPERATE ENVIRONMENT; WATER AVAILABILITY;

CHINA;

POACEAE;

EID: 78649791831     PISSN: 13541013     EISSN: 13652486     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2486.2010.02253.x     Document Type: Article

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