Effect of grazing on the plant functional group diversity and community biomass and their relationship along a precipitation gradient in Inner Mongolia Steppe
水分梯度上放牧对内蒙古主要草原群落功能群多样性与生产力关系的影响

There has been a rapidly increasing interest in the effect of species diversity or functional group diversity on ecosystem productivity. In order to search a general diversity-productivity pattern and find the mechanisms underlying the pattern, ecologists have undertaken many empirical studies. But the diversity-productivity connection still remains unclear. The main purpose of this study was to examine the effect of plant species diversity and functional group diversity on productivity of different communi...