Spontaneous grassland recovery on abandoned croplands in northern China: Different vegetation patterns in desert and typical steppe
Daling Chen, Bin Zhang, Carlo Fadda, D. I. Jarvis, N. Bergamini, Guodong Han, Mengli Zhao, Keyu Bai, Zongwen Zhang
Topics & Concepts
SteppeGrasslandForbEcotoneVegetation (pathology)Biomass (ecology)Perennial plantEnvironmental scienceSpecies richnessBiodiversityEcologyGeographyAgroforestryHabitatBiologyPathologyMedicineRangeland Management and Livestock EcologyEcology and Vegetation Dynamics StudiesPlant Ecology and Soil Science