Different inter-annual responses to availability and form of nitrogen explain species coexistence in an alpine meadow community after release from grazing

Global Change Biology

Volumn 18, Issue 10, 2012, Pages 3100-3111

  Song, Ming Hua ^a,b   Yu, Fei Hai ^c   Ouyang, Hua ^a   Cao, Guang Min ^d   Xu, Xing Liang ^a   Cornelissen, Johannes H C ^e  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOGRAPHIC SCIENCES AND NATURAL RESOURCES RESEARCH   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^c BEIJING FORESTRY UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d NORTHWEST INSTITUTE OF PLATEAU BIOLOGY   (China)

^e VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Aboveground biomass; Alpine meadow; Compensatory dynamics; Long term experiment; Niche differentiation; Species richness

Indexed keywords

ABOVEGROUND BIOMASS; COEXISTENCE; FUNCTIONAL GROUP; GRAZING; NICHE PARTITIONING; NITROGEN CYCLE; NUTRIENT AVAILABILITY; PLANT COMMUNITY; SPECIES RICHNESS; TUNDRA;

CHINA; QINGHAI-XIZANG PLATEAU;

CAREX; POACEAE;

EID: 84865863447     PISSN: 13541013     EISSN: 13652486     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2486.2012.02738.x     Document Type: Article

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