Selective grazing and seasonal precipitation play key roles in shaping plant community structure of semi-arid grasslands

Landscape Ecology

Volumn 30, Issue 9, 2015, Pages 1767-1782

  Wan, Hongwei ^a   Bai, Yongfei ^a   Hooper, David U ^b   Schönbach, Philipp ^c   Gierus, Martin ^d   Schiborra, Anne ^e   Taube, Friedhelm ^c  

^a INSTITUTE OF BOTANY   (China)

^b WESTERN WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF KIEL   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF NATURAL RESOURCES AND LIFE SCIENCES   (Austria)

^e UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

C3 C4 abundance; Diversity grazing intensity relationship; Dynamic equilibrium model; Intermediate disturbance hypothesis; Precipitation seasonality; Spatial heterogeneity; Species richness

Indexed keywords

ABOVEGROUND BIOMASS; ABUNDANCE; DIET; FOOD PREFERENCE; GRAZING; HETEROGENEITY; INTERMEDIATE DISTURBANCE HYPOTHESIS; LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY; PLANT COMMUNITY; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); SEASONALITY; SEMIARID REGION; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES RICHNESS; STEPPE; VEGETATION DYNAMICS;

CHINA; NEI MONGGOL;

ANIMALIA; POACEAE;

EID: 84942499959     PISSN: 09212973     EISSN: 15729761     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10980-015-0252-y     Document Type: Article

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