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ReviewiScience2026

Dominant Plant species and functional groups driving desert productivity changes in China and Egypt.

Waqar Islam, Bo Zhang, Bingkun Yu, Qiang Yu, Haiyan Ren, Yongxin Zang, Abdelraouf A Moustafa, Fanjiang Zeng

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Review in iScience, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

8 authors.

Waqar IslamState Key Laboratory of Ecological Safety and Sustainable Development in Arid Lands, Xinjiang Institute of Ecology and Geography, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Urumqi 830011, China.
Bo ZhangState Key Laboratory of Ecological Safety and Sustainable Development in Arid Lands, Xinjiang Institute of Ecology and Geography, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Urumqi 830011, China.
Bingkun YuState Key Laboratory of Ecological Safety and Sustainable Development in Arid Lands, Xinjiang Institute of Ecology and Geography, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Urumqi 830011, China.
Qiang YuSchool of Grassland Science, Beijing Forestry University, Beijing 10083, China.
Haiyan RenCollege of Agro-Grassland Science, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing 210095, China.
Yongxin ZangState Key Laboratory of Ecological Safety and Sustainable Development in Arid Lands, Xinjiang Institute of Ecology and Geography, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Urumqi 830011, China.
Abdelraouf A MoustafaBotany Department, Faculty of Science, Suez Canal University, Ismailia 41522, Egypt.
Fanjiang ZengState Key Laboratory of Ecological Safety and Sustainable Development in Arid Lands, Xinjiang Institute of Ecology and Geography, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Urumqi 830011, China.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Arid and semi-arid ecosystems in China and Egypt are increasingly threatened by climate change and human activities, making plant functional diversity critical for maintaining productivity and resilience. This review examines how dominant plant species and functional groups contribute to ecosystem functioning through traits such as photosynthetic pathways, water-use efficiency, nutrient acquisition, deep rooting, nitrogen fixation, and drought tolerance. Species including

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climate changedrought toleranceecosystem productivityfunctional traitsplant functional groupsrestoration ecology

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PMID42491539
PMCPMC13378026

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