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Functional types/groups rely on role of plants within an ecosystem as opposed to phylogenetic groupings. Two meanings are found in the literature. One meaning focuses on species that respond in a similar way to environmental perturbations, while the second usage groups together species that have similar effects on ecosystem-level processes.
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States in this context refers to a stage, at a given point of time, in the successional changes in plant communities that follow perturbations like drought, overgrazing etc (see Box 2).
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Squires, V., Degang, Z., Limin, H. (2010). Ecological Restoration and Control of Rangeland Degradation: Rangeland Management Interventions. In: Squires, V., Hua, L., Li, G., Zhang, D. (eds) Towards Sustainable Use of Rangelands in North-West China. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-9622-7_5
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