Responses of the plant community characteristics and diversity of abandoned grasslands in the Loess Hilly Region in China to slope aspect and year of abandonment.

Front Plant Sci · 2026 · PMC13070924 · PMID 41982520

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The density of C3 plants showed a “first increasing but then decreasing” trend on the shady slopes but an increasing trend on the sunny slopes, and significant differences were observed in the corresponding key stages ( P < 0.05).

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