Abstract:Three-year‘s researching work began in 2001 in DUNLUN County, Xilin Gol, Inner Mongolia. To discuss the plants damaged mechanism the common populations of the different gradients during the grassland sandy desertification process was used as the study‘s object. The results showed as follows : ①With developing of the grassland sandy desertification, the leaf water contents(LWC) of the common populations were decreased overall. The change of that of Leymus chinensis was different from others. Their LWC were s...