Patterns of plant biomass allocation in temperate grasslands across a 2500-km transect in northern China.

PLoS One · 2013 · PMC3748100 · PMID 23977135

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Along the transect, plants allocated, correspondingly, less biomass to root system for taking up soil water and more biomass to shoot system for light, leading to a decreasing trend in root/shoot ratios from west to east.

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