Role of clonal growth of the rehizomatous grass Psammochloa villosa in patch dynamics of Mu Us sandy land
根茎禾草沙鞭的克隆生长在毛乌素沙地斑块动态中的作用

Mu Us sandy landscape is a mosaic of many different patches.A number of ecological processes at landscape level control the dynamics of these patches.Clonal growth of the rhizomatous grass Psammochloa villosa is one of the ecological processes not well known up to now.In this paper,the role of clonal growth of P.villosa in the patch dynamics in Mu Us sandy landscape was examined by means of field investigation in three 1hm 2 wind\|eroded plots and by methods of the acid fuchsin application.Each plo...