Herbaceous encroachment from mountain birch forests to alpine tundra plant communities through above- and belowground competition

• Published in: Forests
• Main Authors: Tan, X., He, H.S., Zong, S., Wu, M., Liu, K., Zhao, D.
• Other Authors: School of Natural Resources
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: MDPI AG 2019
• Subjects: Alpine tundra; Biomass allocation; Competition; Herbaceous encroachment; Georgi; Tundra
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10355/75223; https://doi.org/10.3390/f10020170

Alpine plant communities are highly sensitive to global warming. One of the consequences of the warming is encroachment by herbaceous plants from forests at low elevations into alpine ecosystems. In the Changbai Mountains, narrowleaf small reed (Deyeuxia angustifolia (Kom.) Y. L. Chang) from mountai...