Functional redundancy instead of species redundancy determines community stability in a typical steppe of inner Mongolia

PLoS ONE

Volumn 10, Issue 12, 2015, Pages

  Kang, Saruul ^a   Ma, Wenjing ^a   Li, Frank Yonghong ^a   Zhang, Qing ^a   Niu, Jianming ^a   Ding, Yong ^b   Han, Fang ^c   Sun, Xiaoli ^a  

^a INNER MONGOLIA UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF PLANT PROTECTION   (China)

^c Inner Mongolian Meteorological Bureau   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHINA; PLANT COMMUNITY; QUANTITATIVE STUDY; SAMPLING; SOIL; SPECIES; SPECIES DIVERSITY; STEPPE; TOPOGRAPHY; VEGETATION; BIODIVERSITY; CLASSIFICATION; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; PLANT; PLANT PHYSIOLOGY; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

BIODIVERSITY; CHINA; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; ECOSYSTEM; PLANT PHYSIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; PLANTS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 84956899480     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0145605     Document Type: Article

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