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    					| Editorial: review of 2013 and expectations for 2014 |  
						| YiBing QIAN, JunFeng YUAN, YongSheng PENG, HaiYan ZHANG |  
						| Editorial Office of Journal of Arid Land, Xinjiang Institute of Ecology and Geography, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Urumqi 830011, China |  
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															| Received: 10 August 2013
																	    
															    															    															    																	Published: 10 February 2014 |  
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															| Radford I J. 2013. Fluctuating resources, disturbance and plant strategies: diverse mechanisms underlying plant invasions. Journal of Arid Land, 5(3): 284–297.Zheng Y R, Jiang L H, Gao Y, et al. 2013. Persistence of four dominant psammophyte species in central Inner Mongolia of China under continual drought. Journal of Arid Land, 5(3): 331–339. |  
             
												
											    	
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