Soil Characteristic Comparison of Fenced and Grazed Riparian Floodplain Wetlands in the Typical Steppe Region of the Inner Mongolian Plateau, China

Table 1

The composition of plant community in the study sites.

Topography	Fenced			Grazed
	Plant; community	Plant height; (cm)	Aboveground biomass; (g/m^2)	Plant; community	Plant height (cm)	Aboveground biomass; (g/m^2)
Low; floodplain; wetlands	Glyceria spiculosa + Poa subfastigiata (A1)	40.66±12.99	415.31±128.84	Carex appendiculata + Geranium vlassowianum (A2)	18.63±8.07	329.44±40.17
	Carex. appendiculata + Eleocharis valleculosa (B1)	47.57±17.07	889.49±57.96	Leymus chinensis + Melilotus  officinalis (B2)	38.67±21.76	483.09±181.44
Transition; zone	Carex. appendiculata + Glyceria spiculosa (C1)	34.26±10.46	467.92±144.35	Glyceria spiculosa + Agrostis gigantea (C2)	14.03±7.49	262.56±94.45
High floodplain; wetlands	Leymus chinensis + Carex korshinskii (D1)	26.07±21.49	251.41±126.04	Leymus chinensis + Artemisia tanacetifolia (D2)	15.43±9.72	138.77±24.23