Effects of Water and Energy on Plant Diversity along the Aridity Gradient across Dryland in China

Elevated precipitation alters the community structure of spring ephemerals by changing dominant species density in Central Asia

(2020) Yangyang Jia et al.   Ecology and Evolution

Convergent Variations in the Leaf Traits of Desert Plants

(2020) Muhammad Adnan Akram et al.   Plants-Basel

Life history responses of two ephemeral plant species to increased precipitation and nitrogen in the Gurbantunggut Desert

(2019) Yanfeng Chen et al.   PeerJ

Life history strategies drive size‐dependent biomass allocation patterns of dryland ephemerals and shrubs

(2019) Renfei Chen et al.   Ecosphere

The structure of plant spatial association networks is linked to plant diversity in global drylands

(2018) Hugo Saiz et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Mapping Spring Ephemeral Plants in Northern Xinjiang, China

(2018) Yuan Qiu et al.   Sustainability

WorldClim 2: new 1-km spatial resolution climate surfaces for global land areas

(2017) Stephen E. Fick et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF CLIMATOLOGY

Soil fungal abundance and plant functional traits drive fertile island formation in global drylands

(2017) Raúl Ochoa-Hueso et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Dryland climate change: Recent progress and challenges

(2017) J. Huang et al.   REVIEWS OF GEOPHYSICS

Energy determines broad pattern of plant distribution in Western Himalaya

(2017) Rajendra M. Panda et al.   Ecology and Evolution

Climate, soil or both? Which variables are better predictors of the distributions of Australian shrub species?

(2017) Yasmin Hageer et al.   PeerJ

Effect of the Long-Term Mean and the Temporal Stability of Water-Energy Dynamics on China’s Terrestrial Species Richness

(2017) Chunyan Zhang et al.   ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information

Drylands extent and environmental issues. A global approach

(2016) Remus Prăvălie   EARTH-SCIENCE REVIEWS

Grazing intensity and driving factors affect soil nitrous oxide fluxes during the growing seasons in the Hulunber meadow steppe of China

(2016) Ruirui Yan et al.   Environmental Research Letters

The relationship between plant species richness and soil pH vanishes with increasing aridity across Eurasian dry grasslands

(2016) Salza Palpurina et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

Constraints of cold and shade on the phenology of spring ephemeral herb species

(2016) Carol K. Augspurger et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Mechanisms of plant response to salt and drought stress and their alteration by rhizobacteria

(2016) Cinzia Forni et al.   PLANT AND SOIL

Ephemeral plants mediate responses of ecosystem carbon exchange to increased precipitation in a temperate desert

(2015) Gang Huang et al.   AGRICULTURAL AND FOREST METEOROLOGY

Geographical variation in the importance of water and energy for oak diversity

(2015) Xiaoting Xu et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOGEOGRAPHY

Climate-driven diversity loss in a grassland community

(2015) Susan P. Harrison et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Impacts of Differing Grazing Rates on Canopy Structure and Species Composition in Hulunber Meadow Steppe

(2015) Ruirui Yan et al.   Rangeland Ecology & Management

Ephemeral plant indicators of livestock grazing in arid rangelands during wet conditions

(2015) Helen P. Waudby et al.   RANGELAND JOURNAL

Diversification and vicariance of desert plants: Evidence inferred from chloroplast DNA sequence variation of Lagochilus ilicifolius (Lamiaceae)

(2014) Xiao-Yang Gao et al.   BIOCHEMICAL SYSTEMATICS AND ECOLOGY

Climatic, ecophysiological, and phenological controls on plant ecohydrological strategies in seasonally dry ecosystems

(2014) Giulia Vico et al.   Ecohydrology

Plant phylogeography in arid Northwest China: Retrospectives and perspectives

(2014) Hong-Hu MENG et al.   Journal of Systematics and Evolution

Evolutionary response to Quaternary climate aridification and oscillations in north-western China revealed by chloroplast phylogeography of the desert shrubNitraria sphaerocarpa(Nitrariaceae)

(2013) Zhihao Su et al.   BIOLOGICAL JOURNAL OF THE LINNEAN SOCIETY

The limited role of snow water in the growth and development of ephemeral plants in a cold desert

(2013) Lian-Lian Fan et al.   JOURNAL OF VEGETATION SCIENCE

Pleistocene climate change and the origin of two desert plant species,Pugionium cornutumandPugionium dolabratum(Brassicaceae), in northwest China

(2013) Qian Wang et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

The distribution of four Caragana species is related to their differential responses to drought stress

(2013) Xiang-Wen Fang et al.   PLANT ECOLOGY

Species Richness Patterns and Water-Energy Dynamics in the Drylands of Northwest China

(2013) Liping Li et al.   PLoS One

Can heavy grazing on communal land elevate plant species richness levels in the Grassland Biome of South Africa?

(2011) M. C. Rutherford et al.   PLANT ECOLOGY

Plant species richness-environment relationships across the Subantarctic-Patagonian transition zone

(2009) Karina Lilian Speziale et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOGEOGRAPHY

Trade-Offs between the Metabolic Rate and Population Density of Plants

(2008) Jian-Ming Deng et al.   PLoS One