Clonal Patch Size and Ramet Position of Leymus chinensis Affected Reproductive Allocation

• Chan Zhou ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Chan Zhou, Zhengwen Wang, Junyue Guo

  ¶‡ These authors are co-first authors on this work.

  Affiliations School of Life Sciences, Liaoning University, No 66 Chongshan Road, Shenyang, 110036, People’s Republic of China, Key Laboratory for Vegetation Ecology, Ministry of Education, Institute of Grassland Science, Northeast Normal University, No 5268 Renmin Street, Changchun, 130024, People’s Republic of China, State Key Laboratory of Forest and Soil Ecology, Institute of Applied Ecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenyang, 110164, People’s Republic of China

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• Zhengwen Wang ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Chan Zhou, Zhengwen Wang, Junyue Guo

  ¶‡ These authors are co-first authors on this work.

  Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Forest and Soil Ecology, Institute of Applied Ecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenyang, 110164, People’s Republic of China

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• Junyue Guo ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Chan Zhou, Zhengwen Wang, Junyue Guo

  ¶‡ These authors are co-first authors on this work.

  Affiliation School of Life Sciences, Liaoning University, No 66 Chongshan Road, Shenyang, 110036, People’s Republic of China

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• Zhuo Zhang ,

  * E-mail: zhangzhuonet@163.com

  Affiliation College of Biology Science and Bioengineering, Shenyang University, No 21 Wanghua Street, Shenyang, 110044, People’s Republic of China

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• Yunfei Yang

  Affiliation Key Laboratory for Vegetation Ecology, Ministry of Education, Institute of Grassland Science, Northeast Normal University, No 5268 Renmin Street, Changchun, 130024, People’s Republic of China

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