supported by the DFG within the DFG research group 536(MAGIM);the National Natural Science Foundation of China(31630010 and 31320103916).
Background:C4 plants have increased substantially during the past several decades in the grasslands of the Mongolian Plateau due to regional warming.Here,we explore how the patterns of abundances of C4 annuals and C4 ...
This research was co-supported by the United States-Israel Binational Science Foundation(BSF Grant 2012081).
Aims Fire has important consequences on vegetation dynamics.In fire-prone areas,natural selection favors plant species,characterized by a large soil seed bank,and that their germination is stimu-lated by fire.Although...
The DFG Priority Program 1374“Infrastructure-Biodiversity-Exploratories”(FI 1246/6-1,FI 1246/9-1,HO 3830/2-1)of the German Research Foundation;the Potsdam Graduate School of University Potsdam.
Aims and Methods Disturbance is supposed to play an important role for biodiversity and ecosystem stability as described by the intermediate disturbance hypoth-esis(IDH),which predicts highest species richness at inte...
financially supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (41071187 and 40701097)
Two psammophile-dominated Artemisia semi-shrubs (A. wudanica and A. halodendron) and two annual Artemisia forbs (A. sieversiana and A. scoparia) bear significant ecological functions in Horqin Sandy Land, but syst...