Ecological impacts of global change on drylands and their implications for desertification

Land Degradation and Development

Volumn 9, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 393-406

  Puigdefabregas J ^a  

^a DEPARTAMENTO DE ECOLOGÍA FUNCIONAL Y EVOLUTIVA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; ARID ENVIRONMENT; CLIMATE FORCING; DESERTIFICATION; ENVIRONMENTAL DEGRADATION; GLOBAL CHANGE;

EID: 0032433575     PISSN: 10853278     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1099-145X(199809/10)9:5<393::AID-LDR301>3.0.CO;2-F     Document Type: Article

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