Grazing management, resilience, and the dynamics of a fire-driven rangeland system

Ecosystems

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 23-44

  Anderies, John M ^a   Janssen, Marco A ^b   Walker, Brian H ^a  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

^b VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Complex systems; Multiple states; Rangelands; Resilience

Indexed keywords

FIRE; GRAZING MANAGEMENT; RANGELAND; RESILIENCE;

EID: 0036460481     PISSN: 14329840     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10021-001-0053-9     Document Type: Article

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