Alterations in plant community niche hypervolume and functional group representation to accommodate extreme drought

Wei Mao1, Zhibin Sun2, Andrew Jennings Felton3, Xueyong Zhao4, Tonghui Zhang4, Yulin Li4 and Melinda Dianne Smith5, (1)Northwest institute of Eco-Environment and Resource, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Lanzhou, China, (2)Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, United States, (3)Montana State University, Land Resources and Environmental Sciences, Bozeman, MT, United States, (4)Northwest institute of Eco-Environment and Resource, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Lanzhou, China, Lanzhou, China, (5)Colorado State University, Department of Biology and Graduate Degree Program in Ecology, Fort Collins, United States