“…Broadly speaking, ANPP was also positively correlated with increasing annual rainfall. This finding is generally consistent with previous studies in other rangelands around the word (Noy-Meir, 1973;Le Houérou & Hoste, 1977;Sala et al, 1988;Burke et al, 1997;Hooper & Johnson, 1999;Paruelo et al, 1999;Lauenroth et al, 2000;Huxman et al, 2004;Bai et al, 2008;Yang et al, 2008;George et al, 2010;Gamoun et al, 2011;Golodets et al, 2013;Gamoun, 2014;Eisfelder et al, 2014).…”