Contrasting Effects of Long-Term Grazing and Clipping on Plant Morphological Plasticity: Evidence from a Rhizomatous Grass

Xiliang Li; Zinian Wu; Zhiying Liu; Xiangyang Hou; Warwick Badgery; Huiqin Guo; Qingshan Zhao; Ningning Hu; Junjie Duan; Weibo Ren

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0141055

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Contrasting Effects of Long-Term Grazing and Clipping on Plant Morphological Plasticity: Evidence from a Rhizomatous Grass

Xiliang Li ,

Contributed equally to this work with: Xiliang Li, Zinian Wu, Zhiying Liu

Affiliation National Forage Improvement Center, Key Laboratory of Grassland Resources and Utilization of Ministry of Agriculture, Institute of Grassland Research, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Hohhot, Inner Mongolia, 010010, P.R. China
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Zinian Wu ,

Contributed equally to this work with: Xiliang Li, Zinian Wu, Zhiying Liu

Affiliation National Forage Improvement Center, Key Laboratory of Grassland Resources and Utilization of Ministry of Agriculture, Institute of Grassland Research, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Hohhot, Inner Mongolia, 010010, P.R. China
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Zhiying Liu ,

Contributed equally to this work with: Xiliang Li, Zinian Wu, Zhiying Liu

Affiliation National Forage Improvement Center, Key Laboratory of Grassland Resources and Utilization of Ministry of Agriculture, Institute of Grassland Research, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Hohhot, Inner Mongolia, 010010, P.R. China
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Xiangyang Hou,

Affiliation National Forage Improvement Center, Key Laboratory of Grassland Resources and Utilization of Ministry of Agriculture, Institute of Grassland Research, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Hohhot, Inner Mongolia, 010010, P.R. China
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Warwick Badgery,

Affiliation New South Wales Department of Primary Industries, Orange Agricultural Institute, Orange, New South Wales, 2800, Australia
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Huiqin Guo,

Affiliation College of Life sciences, Inner Mongolia Agricultural University, Hohhot, Inner Mongolia, 010010, P.R. China
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Qingshan Zhao,

Affiliation National Forage Improvement Center, Key Laboratory of Grassland Resources and Utilization of Ministry of Agriculture, Institute of Grassland Research, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Hohhot, Inner Mongolia, 010010, P.R. China
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Ningning Hu,

Affiliation National Forage Improvement Center, Key Laboratory of Grassland Resources and Utilization of Ministry of Agriculture, Institute of Grassland Research, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Hohhot, Inner Mongolia, 010010, P.R. China
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Junjie Duan,

Affiliation National Forage Improvement Center, Key Laboratory of Grassland Resources and Utilization of Ministry of Agriculture, Institute of Grassland Research, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Hohhot, Inner Mongolia, 010010, P.R. China
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Weibo Ren

* E-mail: rppcaucau@163.com

Affiliation National Forage Improvement Center, Key Laboratory of Grassland Resources and Utilization of Ministry of Agriculture, Institute of Grassland Research, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Hohhot, Inner Mongolia, 010010, P.R. China
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Contrasting Effects of Long-Term Grazing and Clipping on Plant Morphological Plasticity: Evidence from a Rhizomatous Grass

Xiliang Li,
Zinian Wu,
Zhiying Liu,
Xiangyang Hou,
Warwick Badgery,
Huiqin Guo,
Qingshan Zhao,
Ningning Hu,
Junjie Duan,
Weibo Ren

Published: October 27, 2015
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0141055

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