Yongzhi  Liu, Yanlin  Xue, Junying  He, Jinhua  Zhao, Yingjun  Zhang, Guomei  Yin, Xiaoqing  Zhang, 
    Responses Strategy to Morphology of Fringed Sagebrush (<I>Artemisia frigid</I>) 
  to Grazing Intensity in Desert Steppe of Inner Mongolia,
    Journal of Animal and Veterinary Advances,
    Volume 13,Issue 16,
    2014,
    Pages 963-969,
    ISSN 1680-5593,
    javaa.2014.963.969,
    (https://makhillpublications.co/view-article.php?doi=javaa.2014.963.969)
    Abstract: To investigated the tolerance response of Fringed sagebrush 
  (<I>Artemisia frigid</I> Willd.) to three grazing intensities in the desert 
  steppe of Inner Mongolian in China, the relationships between them were analyzed 
  from two different aspects, plant height and leaf epidermis micro-morphology. 
  As grazing pressure increased, plant height was the better trait of grazing 
  response. At the height level researchers predicted that plants with a negative 
  response to grazing would be ingest by sheep with grazing intensity increasers. 
  At the leaf epidermis micromorphology level, researchers predicted that with 
  higher grazing intensities would have stomatal subsidence, skin folds increase. 
  The results of this exploratory study suggest that prediction of grazing responses 
  on the basis of easily measured plant traits is feasible and consistent between 
  similar grazing systems in different regions. The results challenge the precept 
  that high intensity sheep grazing necessarily change species with micromorphology 
  and height.
    Keywords: height;grazing intensity;Fringed sagebrush;Response;leaf epidermis micromorphology