Relationships between empirical and nominal indices of landscape function in the arid shrubland of Western Australia

Journal of Arid Environments

Volumn 50, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 1-21

  Holm, Alexander McR ^a   Bennett, Lauren T ^b   Loneragan, William A ^a   Adams, Mark A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^b NONE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Degradation; Landscape function; Oxidizable C; Rangeland monitoring; Resilience; Shrubland; Total N

Indexed keywords

DEGRADATION; ECOSYSTEM FUNCTION; LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY; PATCH DYNAMICS; RANGELAND; SHRUBLAND; SOIL FERTILITY;

AUSTRALIA; WESTERN AUSTRALIA;

EID: 0036059001     PISSN: 01401963     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jare.2001.0856     Document Type: Article

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