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A trade-off between guerrilla and phalanx growth forms in Leymus secalinus under different nutrient supplies

scientific article

Adaptation of rhizome connections in drylands: increasing tolerance of clones to wind erosion

scientific article published on 11 July 2008

Adaptation strategies of seed germination and seedling growth to sand dune environment

scientific article published in January 2006

Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi reduce effects of physiological integration in Trifolium repens

scientific article published on 02 June 2009

Are clonal plants more tolerant to grazing than co-occurring non-clonal plants in inland dunes?

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Assessment of water quality and identification of pollution sources of plateau lakes in Yunnan (China).

scientific article published on 9 January 2007

Biomass Allocation of Stoloniferous and Rhizomatous Plant in Response to Resource Availability: A Phylogenetic Meta-Analysis

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Clonal Plasticity in Response to Reciprocal Patchiness of Light and Nutrients in the Stoloniferous Herb Glechoma longituba L

article by Yu Chu et al published April 2006 in Journal of Integrative Plant Biology

Clonal integration affects growth, photosynthetic efficiency and biomass allocation, but not the competitive ability, of the alien invasive Alternanthera philoxeroides under severe stress

scientific article published on 04 February 2008

Clonal integration and its ecological significance in Hedysarum laeve, a rhizomatous shrub in Mu Us Sandland

scientific article published in April 2002

Clonal integration enhances survival and performance of Potentilla anserina, suffering from partial sand burial on Ordos plateau, China

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Clonal integration helps Psammochloa villosa survive sand burial in an inland dune

scientific article published in 2004

Clonal integration improves compensatory growth in heavily grazed ramet populations of two inland-dune grasses

scientific article published in 2009

Clonal integration increases performance of ramets of the fern Diplopterygium glaucum in an evergreen forest in southeastern China

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Clonality-climate relationships along latitudinal gradient across China: adaptation of clonality to environments

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Coordinated variation in leaf and root traits across multiple spatial scales in Chinese semi-arid and arid ecosystems

scientific article published on October 2010

Do clonal growth form and habitat origin affect resource-induced plasticity in Tibetan alpine herbs?

article by Zhengsheng He et al published July 2007 in Flora

Ecological Consequences of Clonal Integration in Plants

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Ecological consequences of plant clonality

scientific article published on August 2014

Effects of amount and frequency of precipitation and sand burial on seed germination, seedling emergence and survival of the dune grass Leymus secalinus in semiarid China

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Effects of denudation and burial on growth and reproduction of Artemisia ordosica in Mu Us sandland

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Effects of node position on regeneration of stolon fragments in congeneric invasive and native Alternanthera species in China

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Effects of ploidy level and haplotype on variation of photosynthetic traits: Novel evidence from two Fragaria species

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Effects of trampling on morphological and mechanical traits of dryland shrub species do not depend on water availability

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Evolutionary Position and Leaf Toughness Control Chemical Transformation of Litter, and Drought Reinforces This Control: Evidence from a Common Garden Experiment across 48 Species

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Experimental evidence that the Ornstein-Uhlenbeck model best describes the evolution of leaf litter decomposability

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Fertile islands under Artemisia ordosica in inland dunes of northern China: Effects of habitats and plant developmental stages

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Functional traits drive the contribution of solar radiation to leaf litter decomposition among multiple arid-zone species

scientific article published on 18 August 2015

Germination of dimorphic seeds of the desert annual halophyte Suaeda aralocaspica (Chenopodiaceae), a C4 plant without Kranz anatomy

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Growth and Biomass Allocation of Lolium perenne Seedlings in Response to Mechanical Stimulation and Water Availability

scientific article published on October 2010

Habitat-specific demography across dune fixation stages in a semi-arid sandland: understanding the expansion, stabilization and decline of a dominant shrub

scientific article published in 2011

Herbaceous plant species invading natural areas tend to have stronger adaptive root foraging than other naturalized species

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Holoparasitic Cuscuta campestris suppresses invasive Mikania micrantha and contributes to native community recovery

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How internode length, position and presence of leaves affect survival and growth of Alternanthera philoxeroides after fragmentation?

Impact of land-use on carbon storage as dependent on soil texture: evidence from a desertified dryland using repeated paired sampling design

scientific article published on 2 January 2015

Interactive effect of herbivory and competition on the invasive plant Mikania micrantha

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Intraspecific N and P stoichiometry of Phragmites australis: geographic patterns and variation among climatic regions

scientific article published on 24 February 2017

Intraspecific variation of a desert shrub species in phenotypic plasticity in response to sand burial

scientific article published on 15 May 2013

Invasive alien plant species in China: regional distribution patterns

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Invasive alien plants in China: role of clonality and geographical origin

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Invasive clonal plant species have a greater root-foraging plasticity than non-invasive ones

scientific article published on 19 December 2013

Ion-exchange method in the collection of nitrate from freshwater ecosystems for nitrogen and oxygen isotope analysis: a review

scientific article published on 05 May 2015

Large clones on cliff faces: expanding by rhizomes through crevices

scientific article published on 24 May 2007

Larger phylogenetic distances in litter mixtures: lower microbial biomass and higher C/N ratios but equal mass loss

scientific article published in May 2015

Mobile dune fixation by a fast-growing clonal plant: a full life-cycle analysis

scientific article

Native Cuscuta campestris restrains exotic Mikania micrantha and enhances soil resources beneficial to natives in the invaded communities

Novel evidence for within-species leaf economics spectrum at multiple spatial scales

scientific article published on 26 October 2015

Nutrient enhancement of allelopathic effects of exotic invasive on native plant species

scientific article published in PLoS ONE

Partial mechanical stimulation facilitates the growth of the rhizomatous plant Leymus secalinus: modulation by clonal integration

scientific article published on February 7, 2011

Phylogenetic meta-analysis of the functional traits of clonal plants foraging in changing environments

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Physiological integration in an introduced, invasive plant increases its spread into experimental communities and modifies their structure

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Plant Clonal Integration Mediates the Horizontal Redistribution of Soil Resources, Benefiting Neighboring Plants

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Plant functional diversity and species diversity in the Mongolian steppe

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Plant interactions with changes in coverage of biological soil crusts and water regime in Mu Us Sandland, China

scientific article published on 31 January 2014

Plant invasiveness is not linked to the capacity of regeneration from small fragments: an experimental test with 39 stoloniferous species

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Plant traits and ecosystem effects of clonality: a new research agenda

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Plasticity in R/S ratio, morphology and fitness-related traits in response to reciprocal patchiness of light and nutrients in the stoloniferous herb, Glechoma longituba L

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Possible role of pectin-containing mucilage and dew in repairing embryo DNA of seeds adapted to desert conditions

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Quantification of the impact of land-use changes on ecosystem services: a case study in Pingbian County, China

scientific article published on 3 February 2007

Reciprocal and coincident patchiness of multiple resources differentially affect benefits of clonal integration in two perennial plants

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Responses of Hedysarum Laeve, a guerrilla clonal semi-shrub in the Mu Us sandland, to local sand burial

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Role of mucilage in the germination of Artemisia sphaerocephala (Asteraceae) achenes exposed to osmotic stress and salinity

scientific article published on January 2010

Seed dimorphism, nutrients and salinity differentially affect seed traits of the desert halophyte Suaeda aralocaspica via multiple maternal effects

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Seedlings of the semi-shrub Artemisia ordosica are resistant to moderate wind denudation and sand burial in Mu Us sandland, China

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Spatial heterogeneity of Ulmus pumila open forest ecosystem in Otindag sandy land

scientific article published on July 1, 2003

Strong but diverging clonality - climate relationships of different plant clades explain weak overall pattern across China

scientific article published on June 2016

Termites amplify the effects of wood traits on decomposition rates among multiple bamboo and dicot woody species

scientific article published in 2015

The achene mucilage hydrated in desert dew assists seed cells in maintaining DNA integrity: adaptive strategy of desert plant Artemisia sphaerocephala

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Trampling, defoliation and physiological integration affect growth, morphological and mechanical properties of a root-suckering clonal tree

scientific article published on 6 February 2012

Transcriptome analyses provide insights into the expression pattern and sequence similarity of several taxol biosynthesis-related genes in three Taxus species

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Understanding the effects of a new grazing policy: the impact of seasonal grazing on shrub demography in the Inner Mongolian steppe

scholarly article by Shou-Li Li et al published 10 September 2013 in Journal of Applied Ecology

United we stand, divided we fall: a meta-analysis of experiments on clonal integration and its relationship to invasiveness

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Water integration patterns in two rhizomatous dune perennials of different clonal fragment size

scientific article published in 2007