Impact of sand burial on spatial patterns of shrub communities on the western Ordos Plateau, northwestern China

The western Ordos Plateau is a distribution center of many endangered shrub species, which have suffered sand burial to various degrees during the last few years. According to the survey data of spatial point pattern of shrub communities in the arid desert of western Ordos Plateau in 2006, we investigated the structure and spatial pattern of shrub communities under different levels of sand burial to reveal its effects on shrub communities in this area. Three indices of spatial pattern based on the nearest neighbor distance, i.e. the F(t), G(t) and J(t) functions, were selected. The results indicate that sand burial is an important factor causing the extinction of sand intolerant shrubs. The number of sand intolerant shrubs gradually reduced with an increase in the depth of sand burial. 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