A landscape-scale model of shrub and herbage dynamics in Central Australia, validated by satellite data

Ecological Modelling

Volumn 97, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 197-216

  Sparrow, Ashley D ^a   Friedel, Margaret H ^a   Mark Stafford Smith, D ^b  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CANTERBURY   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Cattle grazing; Chenopod shrublands; Landsat MSS data; Landscape patterns; Rangeland productivity; Soil erosion; Soil redistribution

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY DYNAMICS; GRAZING; LANDSAT MSS; REMOTE SENSING; SHRUBLAND; SOIL EROSION;

AUSTRALIA, NORTHERN TERRITORY;

EID: 0030616903     PISSN: 03043800     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3800(96)01904-7     Document Type: Article

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