Grasslands and Grassland Sciences in Northern China (1992) / Chapter Skim
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4 Xilingele
4 Xilingele
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Spring is usually dry and windy, with high evaporation and low relative humidity. Although only 6-9% of the annual precipitation falls in winter FIGURE 4-1 Klimadiagrams, Xilingele League, Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region: (A)
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This is also one of the best-studied grassland regions in China, with much background information having been accumulated during the past three decades. The Inner Mongolia Grassland Ecosystem Research Station, which includes the first grassland nature reserve in China, is located here.
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By 1980 the total number of livestock in the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region reached 40 million. Prior to the 1950s, agriculture had never been practiced in the Xilin River Basin (Li et al., 1988~.
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The principal pattern of livestock raising has been extensive seminomadism based on seasonal migration. Catastrophic winter storms historically have caused drastic drops in the number of livestock in Inner Mongolia (Figure 4 FIGURE 4-2 Livestock population, Baiyinxile State Farm, 1950-1989.
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(1988) cover a variety of topics on the vegetation of the Xilin River Basin, including the history of vegetation formation, flora, classification and mapping of vegetation, structure and function of different steppe communities, sandy land vegetation, dynamics of vegetation, grassland productivity, and regionalization and utilization of vegetation.
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The steppe ecoregion, which covers the largest area, is divided into 10 subecoregions. The Xilingele grasslands fall into the Stipa g~randis-Aneurolepidium chinense steppe ecodistrict, one of the two ecodistricts within the Stipa grandisAneurolepidiz~m chinense steppe subecoregion.
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Soil Animals and Microorganisms Researchers from Inner Mongolia University have studied soil animals and the soil microorganism ecology of the Xilingele region.
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1988. Measuring of underground productivity and turnover rate of Aneurolepidium chinense and Stipa grandis grassland in Xilin River Basin of Inner Mongolia.
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1988. A study on the fauna of acridoids in typical steppe subzone of Xilin River Basin region, Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region.
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