Relationships of biomass with environmental factors in the grassland area of Hulunbuir, China

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 7, 2014, Pages

  Liu, Miao ^a,b   Liu, Guohua ^a   Gong, Li ^a,b   Wang, Dongbo ^d   Sun, Jian ^c  

^a RESEARCH CENTER FOR ECO ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

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

^d Monitoring Station for Eco environment of Hulunbuir   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIOMASS DISTRIBUTION; BIOMASS PARTITIONING; CHINA; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; ENVIRONMENTAL TEMPERATURE; GRASSLAND; GROWING SEASON; PRECIPITATION; STRUCTURAL EQUATION MODELING; VEGETATION DYNAMICS; BIOMASS; CLIMATE; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MONGOLIA; PLANT; PLANT PHYSIOLOGY; STATISTICAL MODEL; TEMPERATURE;

RAIN;

BIOMASS; CHINA; CLIMATE; DATA COLLECTION; GRASSLAND; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MONGOLIA; PLANT PHYSIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; PLANTS; RAIN; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 84904480121     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0102344     Document Type: Article

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