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Leaf-trait plasticity and species vulnerability to climate change in a Mongolian steppe.
Global change biology - 1 Sept 2015
Liancourt Pierre, Boldgiv Bazartseren, Song Daniel S, Spence Laura A, Helliker Brent R, Petraitis Peter S, Casper Brenda B
Abstract excerpt
Climate change is expected to modify plant assemblages in ways that will have major consequences for ecosystem functions. How climate change will affect community composition will depend on how individual species respond, which is likely related to interspecific differences in functional traits. The extraordinary plasticity of some plant traits is typically neglected in assessing how climate change will affect...
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