Community succession analysis and environmental biological processes of naturally colonized vegetation on abandoned hilly lands and implications for vegetation restoration strategy in Shanxi, China
X.Z Liu1, F. Zhang1*, H.B. Shao2,3* and J.T. Zhang4
1Institute of Loess Plateau, Shanxi University, Taiyuan 030006, China
2The CAS / Shandong Provincial Key Laboratory of Coastal Environmental Processes, Yantai Institute of Coastal Zone Research, the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), Yantai 264003, China.
3Institute for Life Sciences, Qingdao University of Science & Technology (QUST), Qingdao 266042, China.
4College of Life Sciences, Beijing Normal University, Beijng 100875, China.
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