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Community assembly mechanisms and succession processes significantly differ among treatments during the restoration of Stipa grandis - Leymus chinensis communities.
Scientific reports - 8 Nov 2019
Dong Ke, Hao Guang, Yang Nan, Zhang Jian-Li, Ding Xin-Feng, Ren Hui-Qin, Shen Jun-Fang, Wang Jin-Long, Jiang Lin, Zhao Nian-Xi, Gao Yu-Bao
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Understanding community assembly mechanisms is helpful to predict community dynamics. To explore which community assembly mechanism(s) drive(s) the grassland restoration in semi-arid region, we investigated the relationships between plant trait and species relative abundance (SRA), and estimated community functional diversity indices for each community under different treatments (enclosure, grazing and mowing...
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