Landscape, soil and meteorological influences on canopy dynamics of northern flooding Pampa grasslands, Argentina

Applied Vegetation Science

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 49-56

  Posse, Gabriela ^a   Oesterheld, Martín ^b   Di Bella, Carlos Marcelo ^a  

^a INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE TECNOLOGÍA AGROPECUARIA INTA   (Argentina)

^b UNIVERSIDAD DE BUENOS AIRES   (Argentina)

Author keywords

Forage production; Interannual variation; NOAA AVHRR; Primary production; Remote sensing; Seasonal variation; Summer water balance

Indexed keywords

EID: 26444458798     PISSN: 14022001     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1654-109X.2005.tb00628.x     Document Type: Article

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