Plant functional diversity mediates the effects of vegetation and soil properties on community-level plant nitrogen use in the restoration of semiarid sandy grassland

Ecological Indicators

Volumn 64, Issue , 2016, Pages 272-280

  Zuo, Xiaoan ^a,b   Zhang, Jing ^a   Lv, Peng ^a   Zhou, Xin ^a   Li, Yulin ^a   Luo, Yayong ^a   Luo, Yongqing ^a   Lian, Jie ^a   Yue, Xiyuan ^a  

^a Chinese Academy of Sciences   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

Functional dispersion; Functional traits; Mass ratio hypothesis; Niche complementarity; Structure equation model; Vegetation restoration

Indexed keywords

BIOMASS; DISPERSIONS; ECOSYSTEMS; NITROGEN; RESTORATION; SOILS; VEGETATION;

FUNCTIONAL TRAITS; MASS RATIO; NICHE COMPLEMENTARITY; STRUCTURE EQUATION MODELS; VEGETATION RESTORATION;

EFFICIENCY;

BIOMASS; COMMUNITY RESPONSE; DISPERSION; ENVIRONMENTAL RESTORATION; FUNCTIONAL ROLE; GRASSLAND; NICHE; NITROGEN; NUMERICAL MODEL; PLANT COMMUNITY; SEMIARID REGION; SOIL PROPERTY; SPECIES RICHNESS; VEGETATION;

CHINA; HORQIN DESERT;

EID: 84961328504     PISSN: 1470160X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolind.2016.01.012     Document Type: Article

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