Soil water: Basis for conservation and management of the plant cover of dry areas

Ambio

Volumn 27, Issue 7, 1998, Pages 539-544

  Steen, Eliel ^a  

^a SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LAND MANAGEMENT; RANGELAND; SOIL WATER; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT; VEGETATION COVER;

EID: 0031743958     PISSN: 00447447     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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51. Acknowlodgements. The author thanks the Swedish International Development Agency, Stockholm and the International Rural Development Centre, SUAS, Uppsala for financial support. I also wish to thank Dr Jeremy Flower-Ellis for substantial help with the English.
52. First submitted 15 May 1996. Accepted for publication after revision 10 January 1997.