Contrasting response of coexisting plant’s water-use patterns to experimental precipitation manipulation in an alpine grassland community of Qinghai Lake watershed, China

• Huawu Wu ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Huawu Wu, Jing Li

  Roles Conceptualization, Writing – original draft

  * E-mail: wuhuawu416@163.com

  Affiliations Key Laboratory of Watershed Geographic Sciences, Nanjing Institute of Geography and Limnology Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanjing, China, Nanjing Institute of Geography and Limnology Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanjing, China, Key Laboratory of Grassland Ecosystem (Gansu Agricultural University), Ministry of Education, Gansu, China

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3938-5767

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• Jing Li ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Huawu Wu, Jing Li

  Roles Data curation, Software

  Affiliation Tourism School, Jiujiang College, Jiujiang, China

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• Xiao-Yan Li,

  Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations State Key Laboratory of Earth Surface Processes and Resource Ecology, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, China, School of Natural Resources, Faculty of Geographical Science, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, China

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• Bin He,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Key Laboratory of Watershed Geographic Sciences, Nanjing Institute of Geography and Limnology Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanjing, China, Nanjing Institute of Geography and Limnology Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanjing, China

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• Jinzhao Liu,

  Roles Data curation

  Affiliation State key Laboratory of Loess and Quaternary Geology, Institute of Earth Environment, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xi’an, China

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• Zhiyun Jiang ,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation School of Geography, South China Normal University, Guangzhou, China

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• Cicheng Zhang

  Roles Data curation

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Tourism School, Jiujiang College, Jiujiang, China

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