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Total aboveground plant biomass is more strongly affected by climate than species diversity on a grassland in Liaoning, China

Zhou C^1,2, C Busso³, J Liu¹, YG Yang¹, Y Sun¹, YZ Fang¹, QQ Zhang¹, YB Zhou^1,4, YN Wang^1,4, Z Zhang^4,5, ZW Wang⁶, YF Yang²

1 School of Life Sciences, Liaoning University, Shenyang, 110036, China.
2 Key Laboratory for Vegetation Ecology, Ministry of Education, Institute of Grassland Science, Northeast Normal University, Changchun, 130024, China.
3 Departamento de Agronomía-CERZOS (CONICET), Universidad Nacional del Sur, 8000 Bahía Blanca, Argentina.
4 College of Life Science and Bioengineering, Shenyang University, Shenyang, 110044, China.
5 Hulunber Grassland Ecosystem Research Station of Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences.
6 State Key Laboratory of Forest and Soil Ecology, Institute of Applied Ecology, Chinese Academy of Science, Shenyang, 110016, China.

Address correspondence to: Zhuo Zhang, College of Life Science and Bioengineering, Shenyang University, Shenyang 110044, P.R. China. E-mail: