Region Scale R/S References
Global community 3.7 Jackson et al., 1996
China community 24.6 (2.4~52.3) Fan et al., 2008
China community 7.7 (5.3~10.1) Piao et al., 2007
China community 6.3 (0.4~14.3) Yang et al., 2010
Northern China community 1.66~15.21 Wang et al., 2008
Inner Mongolia community 61.3 (1.4~401.7) Ma et al., 2006
North America community 4.4 Coupland (1979)
Central Europe community 3.0 Coupland (1979)
West Europe community 4.3 Coupland (1979)
Tropical/subtropical grassland community 1.89 (0.38~4.92) Mokany et al., 2006
Temperate grassland community 4.22 (1.59~9.88) Mokany et al., 2006
Cool temperature grassland community 4.50 (0.83~26.03) Mokany et al., 2006
Savanna community 0.64 (0.40~1.08) Mokany et al., 2006
Northern China genus 1.83 (0.75~2.98) Luo et al., 2013
Northern China individual 0.84 Wang et al., 2010
Northern China (experiment) individual 0.04~0.92 This study