Woody plant encroachment may decrease plant carbon storage in grasslands under future drier conditions
Yun-Hua Liu1,†, Jun-Hui Cheng1,†, Bernhard Schmid2, Li-Song Tang3 and
Jian-Dong Sheng1,
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1 Department of Ecology and Environmental Sciences, Xinjiang Key Laboratory of Soil and Plant Ecological Processes, College of
Grassland and Environmental Science, Xinjiang Agricultural University, Urumqi 830052, Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, China, 2 Department of Geography, University of Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland, 3 State Key Laboratory of Desert and Oasis Ecology, Xinjiang
Institute of Ecology and Geography, Chinese Academy of Science, Urumqi 830011, Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, China