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09 Apr 2014
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| 09 Apr 2014
Field-based observations of regional-scale, temporal variation in net primary production in Tibetan alpine grasslands
Y. Shi
Department of Ecology, College of Urban and Environmental Sciences, and Key Laboratory for Earth Surface Processes of the Ministry of Education, Peking University, 5 Yiheyuan Rd., 100871 Beijing, China
Y. Wang
Department of Ecology, College of Urban and Environmental Sciences, and Key Laboratory for Earth Surface Processes of the Ministry of Education, Peking University, 5 Yiheyuan Rd., 100871 Beijing, China
Y. Ma
Department of Ecology, College of Urban and Environmental Sciences, and Key Laboratory for Earth Surface Processes of the Ministry of Education, Peking University, 5 Yiheyuan Rd., 100871 Beijing, China
W. Ma
Department of Ecological Sciences, College of Life Sciences, Inner Mongolia University, 010021 Hohhot, China
C. Liang
Department of Ecological Sciences, College of Life Sciences, Inner Mongolia University, 010021 Hohhot, China
D. F. B. Flynn
Key Laboratory of Adaptation and Evolution of Plateau Biota, Northwest Institute of Plateau Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 23 Xinning Rd., 810008 Xining, China
Institute of Evolutionary Biology and Environmental Studies, University of Zurich, Winterthurerstr. 190, 8057 Zurich, Switzerland
B. Schmid
Institute of Evolutionary Biology and Environmental Studies, University of Zurich, Winterthurerstr. 190, 8057 Zurich, Switzerland
J. Fang
Department of Ecology, College of Urban and Environmental Sciences, and Key Laboratory for Earth Surface Processes of the Ministry of Education, Peking University, 5 Yiheyuan Rd., 100871 Beijing, China
Department of Ecology, College of Urban and Environmental Sciences, and Key Laboratory for Earth Surface Processes of the Ministry of Education, Peking University, 5 Yiheyuan Rd., 100871 Beijing, China
Key Laboratory of Adaptation and Evolution of Plateau Biota, Northwest Institute of Plateau Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 23 Xinning Rd., 810008 Xining, China
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- Long-Term Effects of Altered Precipitation Patterns on Alpine Vegetation Species Composition on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau X. Ni et al.
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