title: [Micro-community characteristics of vegetations in blowouts and depositional areas of Hulunbuir grassland, Inner Mongolia].
abstract: By using traditional sampling methods, the micro-communities of vegetations in fixed, semi-bare, and bare blowouts of Hulunbuir grassland were investigated, and the investigation data were statistical analyzed. The results showed that the vegetation coverage decreased in the order of fixed blowout, semi-bare blowout, and bare blowout, and was lower than that of the primary vegetation Form. Stipa grandis. Potentilla acaulis and Kengia squarrosa were the dominant species in fixed blowout, with the coverage being 5%; while P. acaulis and Carex sp. were the dominant species in semi-bare blowout, with the coverage being 2%. The dominant species in depositional areas of semi-bare blowout were P. acaulis, K. squarrosa, Agropyron cristatum, and Thymus mongolicus, and the coverage was 4%. The dominant species on the southwest slope of bare blowout was Agriophyllum pungens. The middle depositional area of bare blowout was also occupied by A. pungens (coverage 4.7%), and the edge of it was dominated by A. cristatum (coverage 2.7%), Carex sp. (coverage 2.6%), and T. mongolicus (coverage 1.7%) from the edge of the depositional area to primary grassland. The mean species importance value in fixed, semi-bare, and bare blowouts was 12.64%, 13.38%, and 20.08%, while that in the depositional area of semi-bare blowout and in the middle and edge of bare blowout was 12.55%, 40.18%, and 11.15%, respectively.
authors.affiliation: College of Resources Science and Technology, Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875, China. mlmongl@yahoo.com.cn
authors.forename: Liang
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Man
authors.forename: Eerdun
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Hasi
authors.forename: Ping
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Zhang
authors.forename: Xu
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Yan
authors.forename: Xian-Dong
authors.initials: XD
authors.lastname: Xia
mesh_terms: D002681:China; D017753:Ecosystem; D004784:Environmental Monitoring; D006109:Poaceae / Q000145:classification / Q000254:growth & development*; D011157:Population Dynamics; D012822:Silicon Dioxide / Q000032:analysis; D012987:Soil / Q000032:analysis
chemical_list: D012987:Soil; D012822:Silicon Dioxide