Soil nutrients and salinity after long-term grazing exclusion in a Flooding Pampa grassland

Journal of Range Management

Volumn 49, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 182-187

  Chaneton, Enrique J ^a   Lavado, Raul S ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

Argentina, landscape heterogeneity; nutrient cycling, plant community dynamics, soil organic matter, topography

Indexed keywords

GRASSLAND; GRAZING; NUTRIENT CYCLING; PARAMETER; SALINITY; SOIL ORGANIC MATTER; TOPOGRAPHY;

ARGENTINA, PAMPA;

EID: 0029669074     PISSN: 0022409X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/4002692     Document Type: Article

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