Abstract:A defoliation study to imitate grazing was undertaken to research the variance of water-soluble carbohydrate (WSC) of Artemisia frigida and WSC pool under different defoliation intensities. A. frigida were arranged in different flowerpots. Material Ⅰ(M 1) was sown into big flowerpot (d=40cm,h=25cm), material Ⅱ (M 2) was that M 1 which was removed to small flowerpot (d=20cm,h=13cm), material Ⅲ was removed into small flowerpot from the Inner Mongolia Grassland Ecosystem Research Station, The Chinese Acade...