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

  1. Shou-Li Li1,2,3,
  2. Fei-Hai Yu4,*,
  3. Marinus J. A. Werger2,
  4. Ming Dong1,*,
  5. Pieter A. Zuidema2

Article first published online: 7 JAN 2011

DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2745.2010.01777.x

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Journal of Ecology

Journal of Ecology

Volume 99, Issue 2, pages 610–620, March 2011

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Li, S.-L., Yu, F.-H., Werger, M. J. A., Dong, M. and Zuidema, P. A. (2011), Habitat-specific demography across dune fixation stages in a semi-arid sandland: understanding the expansion, stabilization and decline of a dominant shrub. Journal of Ecology, 99: 610–620. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2745.2010.01777.x

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  1. 1

    State Key Laboratory of Vegetation and Environmental Change, Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100093, China

  2. 2

    Ecology & Biodiversity Group, Institute of Environmental Biology, Utrecht University, Padualaan 8, 3584 CH Utrecht, The Netherlands

  3. 3

    Graduate University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China

  4. 4

    College of Nature Conservation, Beijing Forestry University, Beijing 100083, China

* Correspondence author. E-mail: feihaiyu@bjfu.edu.cn; dongming@ibcas.ac.cn

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  1. Issue published online: 15 FEB 2011
  2. Article first published online: 7 JAN 2011
  3. Received 12 July 2010; accepted 23 November 2010 Handling Editor: Mark Rees

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