Implications of land use change for the production of plant biomass in densely populated Sahelo-Sudanian shrub-grasslands in north-east Nigeria

Global Ecology and Biogeography

Volumn 8, Issue 3-4, 1999, Pages 243-256

  Mortimore, Michael ^a   Harris, Frances M A ^b   Turner, Beryl ^c  

^a Drylands Research   (United Kingdom)

^b DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c The Green   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Biomass production; Deforestation; Desertification; Fallows; Farmland; Land cover; Nigeria; Rangeland; Sahel; Trees

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL EXTENSION; BIOMASS; LAND DEGRADATION; LAND USE CHANGE; PRODUCTIVITY;

NIGERIA;

EID: 0033494591     PISSN: 1466822X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2699.1999.00138.x     Document Type: Article

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