Plant diversity is associated with the amount and spatial structure of soil heterogeneity in meadow steppe of China

Landscape Ecology

Volumn 30, Issue 9, 2015, Pages 1713-1721

  Wang, Ling ^a,b   Liu, Chen ^a   Alves, Diogo Gomes ^a   Frank, Douglas A ^b   Wang, Deli ^a  

^a NORTHEAST NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Biodiversity conservation; Heterogeneity diversity relationship; Plant diversity; Soil spatial heterogeneity; Spatial structure; Spatial variability; Species richness

Indexed keywords

ECOSYSTEM MODELING; ELECTRICAL CONDUCTIVITY; GROWTH RESPONSE; HETEROGENEITY; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; MEADOW; PATCH SIZE; PLANT COMMUNITY; SODIUM; SOIL CHEMISTRY; SOIL ECOSYSTEM; SOIL NITROGEN; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES RICHNESS; STEPPE;

CHINA;

EID: 84942500886     PISSN: 09212973     EISSN: 15729761     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10980-013-9955-0     Document Type: Article

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