Linking nutrient strategies with plant size along a grazing gradient: Evidence from Leymus chinensis in a natural pasture
نویسندگان
چکیده
منابع مشابه
Anatomical and Physiological Plasticity in Leymus chinensis (Poaceae) along Large-Scale Longitudinal Gradient in Northeast China
BACKGROUND Although it has been widely accepted that global changes will pose the most important constrains to plant survival and distribution, our knowledge of the adaptive mechanism for plant with large-scale environmental changes (e.g. drought and high temperature) remains limited. METHODOLOGY/PRINCIPAL FINDINGS An experiment was conducted to examine anatomical and physiological plasticity...
متن کاملSeasonal Variations in Voluntary Intake and Apparent Digestibility of Forages in Goats Grazing on Introduced Leymus chinensis Pasture
The nutrient composition of pasture, voluntary intake and digestibility of diet ingested by goats grazing on an introduced Leymus chinensis pasture were measured across spring (May), summer (July), autumn (October) and winter (March). In each season, 12 Inner Mongolian Cashmere goats (6 wethers and 6 does with an average live weight of 22.2±1.3 kg and 19.5±0.8 kg, respectively) were used to gra...
متن کاملRelease from competition and protection determine the outcome of plant interactions along a grazing gradient
Plant interactions a re suggested [0 shift from competition to facilitation and co llapse with increasi ng grazing pressure. 1he existence of this fu ll range of plant interactions and the role of underlying mechanisms (i .e. release from competition and protecting effect) in response to herbivory remains poo rly documented and mainly described in terrestrial systems. We use a large grazing dis...
متن کاملTwo-phase functional redundancy in plant communities along a grazing gradient in Mongolian rangelands.
The concept of functional redundancy is at the core of theory relating changes in ecosystem functioning to species loss. However, few empirical studies have investigated the strength and form of the relationship between species and functional diversity (i.e., the presence of functional redundancy in ecological communities) in this context. In particular, we know little about how local extinctio...
متن کاملذخیره در منابع من
با ذخیره ی این منبع در منابع من، دسترسی به آن را برای استفاده های بعدی آسان تر کنید
ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Integrative Agriculture
سال: 2016
ISSN: 2095-3119
DOI: 10.1016/s2095-3119(15)61171-6