Effects of grazing regimes on plant traits and soil nutrients in an alpine steppe, northern Tibetan Plateau

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 9, 2014, Pages

  Sun, Jian ^a   Wang, Xiaodan ^b   Cheng, Genwei ^b   Wu, Jianbo ^b   Hong, Jiangtao ^b   Niu, Shuli ^a  

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

^b INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NITROGEN; ORGANIC CARBON; SOIL;

ALPINE TUNDRA; ARTICLE; BIOMASS ALLOCATION; BIOMASS PARTITIONING; BULK DENSITY; CHINA; CONTROLLED STUDY; GRAZING; INTERRAMET DISTANCE; NONHUMAN; PLANT PARAMETERS; PLANT TRAIT; RHIZOME; ROOT SHOOT RATIO; SOIL PROPERTY; SPROUTING; STEPPE; TILLER NUMBER; VEGETATION; ANIMAL; BIOMASS; CHEMISTRY; GRASSLAND; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HERBIVORY; METABOLISM; PLANT; PLANT ROOT; SOIL;

ANIMALS; BIOMASS; GRASSLAND; HERBIVORY; NITROGEN; PLANT ROOTS; PLANT SHOOTS; PLANTS; RHIZOME; SOIL; TIBET;

EID: 84907546250     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0108821     Document Type: Article

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