Climate shifts root: shoot ratio pattern by altering plant functional group on Tibetan vs. Inner Mongolian Plateaus

Title: Climate shifts root: shoot ratio pattern by altering plant functional group in alpine vs temperate grasslands on both Tibetan and Inner Mongolian Plateaus

by Wu et al.

Study areas and sample sites:

Environmental and ecological surveys were conducted along a temperate grassland transect in Inner Mongolian Plateau and an alpine grassland transect in Tibetan Plateau in China, at ends of the plant growth peak growing season from 2017 to 2020. We laid out 54 sample sites along the two broad ranges of geographic transects on the two plateaus, with 3-5 sample plots at each sample site (a total of 215 plots).