Predicting plant traits and functional types response to grazing in an alpine shrub meadow on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau

Science China Earth Sciences

Volumn 55, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 837-851

  Zhu, Zhi Hong ^a   Wang, Xiao An ^a   Li, Ying Nian ^b   Wang, Gang ^c   Guo, Hua ^a  

^a SHAANXI NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b NORTHWEST INSTITUTE OF PLATEAU BIOLOGY   (China)

^c LANZHOU UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Alpine shrub meadow; grazing response; optimal traits; plant functional types

Indexed keywords

ALPINE SHRUB MEADOW; CANONICAL CORRESPONDENCE ANALYSIS; CHANGING ENVIRONMENT; COMMUNITY RESPONSE; FUNCTIONAL TYPES; GRAZING PRESSURE; GRAZING RESPONSE; GRAZING TREATMENT; GROWTH FORM; MANAGEMENT PRACTICES; OPTIMAL TRAITS; ORDINAL REGRESSION; PLANT FUNCTIONAL TYPE; PLANT HEIGHT; QINGHAI TIBET PLATEAU; RELATIVE ABUNDANCE; SPECIES RICHNESS; UNIVARIATE; VEGETATION STRUCTURE;

ECOLOGY; FORESTRY; OPTIMIZATION;

FORECASTING;

ALPINE ENVIRONMENT; CANONICAL ANALYSIS; COMMUNITY RESPONSE; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; GRAZING; PLANT; PREDICTION; SHRUB;

CHINA; QINGHAI-XIZANG PLATEAU;

POACEAE;

EID: 84860659992     PISSN: 16747313     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11430-012-4381-8     Document Type: Article

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