Long-term vegetation dynamics driven by climatic variations in the Inner Mongolia grassland: findings from 30-year monitoring

Landscape Ecology

Volumn 30, Issue 9, 2015, Pages 1701-1711

  Li, Zhiyong ^a   Ma, Wenhong ^a   Liang, Cunzhu ^a   Liu, Zhongling ^a   Wang, Wei ^a   Wang, Lixin ^a  

^a INNER MONGOLIA UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Climate change; Community composition; Functional group; Inner Mongolia grassland; Long term dynamic

Indexed keywords

BIOMASS ALLOCATION; CLIMATE CHANGE; ECOSYSTEM RESPONSE; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; GRASSLAND; GRAZING; LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY; LIVESTOCK; LONG-TERM CHANGE; PRECIPITATION INTENSITY; PRIMARY PRODUCTION; RELATIVE ABUNDANCE; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; SPECIES RICHNESS; TEMPERATE ENVIRONMENT; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; VEGETATION DYNAMICS;

CHINA; MONGOLIAN PLATEAU; NEI MONGGOL;

POACEAE;

EID: 84942504110     PISSN: 09212973     EISSN: 15729761     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10980-014-0068-1     Document Type: Article

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