Moderate grazing promotes genetic diversity of Stipa species in the Inner Mongolian steppe

Landscape Ecology

Volumn 30, Issue 9, 2015, Pages 1783-1794

  Peng, Jiangtao ^a   Liang, Cunzhu ^a   Niu, Yongmei ^a   Jiang, Wei ^a   Wang, Wei ^a   Wang, Lixin ^a  

^a INNER MONGOLIA UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Genetic diversity; Genetic structure; Grazing disturbance; ISSR; Small scale

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; CONSERVATION GENETICS; GENETIC MARKER; GENETIC STRUCTURE; GENETIC VARIATION; GRASS; GRAZING MANAGEMENT; GRAZING PRESSURE; LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY; SPATIAL VARIATION; SPECIES DIVERSITY; STEPPE; THEORETICAL STUDY;

CHINA; NEI MONGGOL;

ANIMALIA; STIPA; STIPA GRANDIS; STIPA KRYLOVII;

EID: 84942506292     PISSN: 09212973     EISSN: 15729761     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10980-015-0227-z     Document Type: Article

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