Vegetation classification at the association level under the China Vegetation Classification System: an example of six Stipa steppe formations in China
Changcheng Liu1,2,*, Thomas R. Wentworth2, Xianguo Qiao1,3,
Ke Guo1,3,* and Dongjie Hou1,3
1State Key Laboratory of Vegetation and Environmental Change, Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences,
Beijing 100093, China 2Department of Plant and Microbial Biology, North Carolina State University, Box 7612, Raleigh, NC 27695-7612, USA 3University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China *Correspondence address. State Key Laboratory of Vegetation and Environmental Change, Institute of Botany,
Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100093, China. Email: greatwall01@ibcas.ac.cn (C.L.); guoke@ibcas.ac.cn (K.G.)
Changcheng Liu, Thomas R. Wentworth, Xianguo Qiao, Ke Guo and Dongjie Hou. Vegetation classification at the association level under the China Vegetation Classification System: an example of six Stipa steppe formations in China[J]. J Plant Ecol, 2019, 12(6): 1009-1024.