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ArticleBiology open2017

Grazing limits natural biological controls of woody encroachment in Inner Mongolia Steppe.

Hongyu Guo, Linjing Guan, Yinhua Wang, Lina Xie, Chelse M Prather, Chunguang Liu, Chengcang Ma

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Article in Biology open, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

0 citing papers in PubMed, 7 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors at 3 institutions in 2 countries.

Hongyu GuoTianjin Key Laboratory of Animal and Plant Resistance, College of Life Sciences, Tianjin Normal University, Tianjin 300387, China.
Linjing GuanTianjin Key Laboratory of Animal and Plant Resistance, College of Life Sciences, Tianjin Normal University, Tianjin 300387, China.
Yinhua WangTianjin Key Laboratory of Animal and Plant Resistance, College of Life Sciences, Tianjin Normal University, Tianjin 300387, China.
Lina XieTianjin Key Laboratory of Animal and Plant Resistance, College of Life Sciences, Tianjin Normal University, Tianjin 300387, China.
Chelse M PratherDepartment of Biology, University of Dayton, Dayton, OH 45419, USA.
Chunguang LiuCollege of Environmental Science and Engineering, Nankai University, Tianjin 300350, China.
Chengcang MaTianjin Key Laboratory of Animal and Plant Resistance, College of Life Sciences, Tianjin Normal University, Tianjin 300387, China machengcang@163.com.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5059-8886
Tianjin Normal University · CNNankai University · CNUniversity of Dayton · US

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Woody encroachment in grasslands has become increasingly problematic globally. Grazing by domestic animals can facilitate woody encroachment by reducing competition from herbaceous plants and fire frequency. Herbivorous insects and parasitic plants can each exert forces that result in the natural biological control of encroaching woody plants through reducing seeding of their host woody plants. However, the interplay of grazing and dynamics of herbivorous insects or parasitic plants, and its effects on the potential biological control of woody encroachment in grasslands remains unclear. We investigated the flower and pod damage by herbivorous insects, and the infection rates of a parasitic plant on the shrub

Indexed as

Caragana microphyllaGrazingHerbivorous insectsInner Mongolia SteppeParasitic plantsWoody encroachment

Identifiers

PMID28912357
PMCPMC5665467
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