Woody Plant Encroachment into Grasslands: Spatial Patterns of Functional Group Distribution and Community Development

• Feng Liu ,

  * E-mail: liufeng@wbgcas.cn

  Affiliations Key Laboratory of Aquatic Botany and Watershed Ecology, Wuhan Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan, China, Department of Ecosystem Science and Management, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, United States of America

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• Steven R. Archer,

  Affiliation School of Natural Resources and the Environment, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, United States of America

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• Frances Gelwick,

  Affiliation Department of Wildlife and Fisheries Sciences, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, United States of America

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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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• Thomas W. Boutton,

  Affiliation Department of Ecosystem Science and Management, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, United States of America

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• Xinyuan Ben Wu

  Affiliation Department of Ecosystem Science and Management, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, United States of America

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