A research review on "fertile islands" of soils under shrub canopy in arid and semi-arid regions

Chinese Journal of Applied Ecology

Volumn 14, Issue 12, 2003, Pages 2295-2300

  Chen, Guangsheng ^a,b   Zeng, Dehui ^a   Chen, Fusheng ^a,b   Fan, Zhiping ^a   Geng, Haiping ^c  

^a INSTITUTE OF APPLIED ECOLOGY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^c Forest Dis/Insect Preventing Stn   (China)

Author keywords

Arid and semi arid regions; Fertile islands; Land desertification; Shrub; Soil resources; Spatial heterogeneity

Indexed keywords

ARID REGION; CLIMATE CONDITIONS; DESERTIFICATION; HETEROGENEITY; RESTORATION ECOLOGY; SEMIARID REGION; SHRUB;

ARTICLE; DESERT CLIMATE; ECOSYSTEM; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; PLANT; SOIL;

DESERT CLIMATE; ECOSYSTEM; PLANTS; SOIL;

EID: 0346640321     PISSN: 10019332     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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