A comprehensive ecological land classification for Utah's west desert

Western North American Naturalist

Volumn 65, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 281-309

  West, Neil E ^a   Dougher, Frank L ^a,b   Manis, Gerald S ^a,c   Ramsey, R Douglas ^a  

^a UTAH STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MONTANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Box 2915 ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Air Force; Army; Bureau of Land Management; Climate; Desert; Ecological sites; Geological formations; Great Basin; Great Salt Lake; Lake Bonneville; Land forms; Military; Natural Resources Conservation Service; Soils; Vegetation; Watersheds

Indexed keywords

EID: 23644449737     PISSN: 15270904     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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