Patterns of Plant Biomass Allocation in Temperate Grasslands across a 2500-km Transect in Northern China

• Wentao Luo,

  Affiliations State Key Laboratory of Forest and Soil Ecology, Institute of Applied Ecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenyang, China, Graduate University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

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• Yong Jiang,

  Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Forest and Soil Ecology, Institute of Applied Ecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenyang, China

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• Xiaotao Lü,

  Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Forest and Soil Ecology, Institute of Applied Ecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenyang, China

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• Xue Wang,

  Affiliations State Key Laboratory of Forest and Soil Ecology, Institute of Applied Ecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenyang, China, Graduate University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

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• Mai-He Li,

  Affiliations State Key Laboratory of Forest and Soil Ecology, Institute of Applied Ecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenyang, China, Forest dynamics, Swiss Federal Research Institute WSL, Birmensdorf, Switzerland

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• Edith Bai,

  Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Forest and Soil Ecology, Institute of Applied Ecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenyang, China

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• Xingguo Han,

  Affiliations State Key Laboratory of Forest and Soil Ecology, Institute of Applied Ecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenyang, China, State Key Laboratory of Vegetation and Environmental Change, Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

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• Zhuwen Xu

  * E-mail: zwxu@iae.ac.cn

  Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Forest and Soil Ecology, Institute of Applied Ecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenyang, China

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