Spatial patterns of soil nutrients, plant diversity, and aboveground biomass in the Inner Mongolia grassland: before and after a biodiversity removal experiment

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• 作者：Fei Yuan ; Jianguo Wu ; Ang Li ; Helen Rowe ; Yongfei Bai ; Jianhui Huang…
• 关键词：Biodiversity and Ecosystem Functioning (BEF) ; Removal experiments ; Spatial heterogeneity ; Pattern analysis ; Disturbance ; Inner Mongolia grassland
• 刊名：Landscape Ecology
• 出版年：2015
• 出版时间：November 2015
• 年：2015
• 卷：30
• 期：9
• 页码：1737-1750
• 全文大小：607 KB
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• 作者单位：Fei Yuan (1)
  Jianguo Wu (2) (3)
  Ang Li (4)
  Helen Rowe (2)
  Yongfei Bai (4)
  Jianhui Huang (4)
  Xingguo Han (4) (5)
  
  1. School of Life Sciences, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, 85287, USA
  2. School of Life Sciences and Global Institute of Sustainability, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, 85287, USA
  3. Sino-US Center for Conservation, Energy, and Sustainability Science, Inner Mongolia University, Hohhot, 010021, China
  4. State Key Laboratory of Vegetation and Environmental Change, Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100093, China
  5. Institute of Applied Ecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenyang, 110016, China
  
• 刊物类别：Biomedical and Life Sciences
• 刊物主题：Life Sciences
  Landscape Ecology
  Plant Ecology
  Forestry Management
  Forestry
  Ecology
  Plant Sciences
  
• 出版者：Springer Netherlands
• ISSN：1572-9761

文摘

Context Spatial heterogeneity is ubiquitous in ecological systems, and has important effects on biological diversity and ecological processes.