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A Fundamental Role of Slope Aspect and Elevation in Controlling Diversity Patterns of Soil Bacterial Communities: Insights from an Arid-Montane Ecosystem in China
In montane ecosystems, slope aspect and elevation are the main topographic parameters that produce environmental heterogeneity related to microclimate, pedogenic processes, and vegetation patterns. However, th...
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Evolution of soil-water states in the vadose zone of a desert soil after an extreme rainfall event and its impact on the ecosystem
Evolution of soil-water movement patterns following rare and extreme rainfall events in arid climates is not well understood, but it has significant effects on water availability for desert plants and on the h...
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Response of individual sizes and spatial patterns of Deyeuxia angustifolia to increasing water level gradient in a freshwater wetland
The wetland plants are very sensitive to hydrological regimes. In this study, the individual sizes of a widely distributed species (i.e., Deyeuxia angustifolia) at three typical marshes with different water table...
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Effect of the population density on belowground bud bank of a rhizomatous clonal plant Leymus secalinus in Mu Us sandy land
Clonal propagation is the main strategy for clonal plants to adapt to wind-sand habitat, and underground bud bank could reflect the potential ability of clonal propagation. However, the effects of population d...
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Soil moisture and salt ionic composition effects on species distribution and diversity in semiarid inland saline habitats, northwestern China
Salinization is one of the main types causing land desertification in arid and semi-arid regions. Little is known about the impacts of salinization on the distribution and diversity of plant species, especiall...
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Species diversity and vegetation distribution in nebkhas of Nitraria tangutorum in the Desert Steppes of China
Nebkhas (phytogenic miniature dunes) are mounds composed of wind-borne sediment within or around shrub canopies and often develop under plants, creating microenvironments that affect the distribution of vegeta...
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Open AccessContribution of moderate overall coal-bearing basin uplift to tight sand gas accumulation: case study of the Xujiahe Formation in the Sichuan Basin and the Upper Paleozoic in the Ordos Basin, China
Tight sand gas is an important unconventional gas resource occurring widely in different petroleum basins. In coal-bearing formations of the Upper Triassic in the Sichuan Basin and the Carboniferous and Permia...
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Carbon dioxide, water vapor, and heat fluxes over agricultural crop field in an arid oasis of Northwest China, as determined by eddy covariance
Fluxes of carbon dioxide, water vapor, and heat were measured above crop canopy using the eddy covariance method during the 2008 maize growing season, over an agricultural field within an oasis located in the ...
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Degraded vegetation and wind erosion influence soil carbon, nitrogen and phosphorus accumulation in sandy grasslands
A field study was conducted in a semi-arid sand land ecosystem in eastern Inner Mongolia, China, to explore the mechanisms underlying how human-induced environmental degradation in sandy grasslands influences ...
