Soil erosion thresholds and alternative states in northeastern Patagonian rangelands

Rangeland Ecology and Management

Volumn 59, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 616-624

  Chartier, Marcelo P ^a   Rostagno, César M ^a  

^a CENTRO NACIONAL PATAGÓNICO   (Argentina)

Author keywords

Ecological thresholds; Indicators; Range conditions; Sediment production; State and transition model; Vegetation dynamics

Indexed keywords

EROSION CONTROL; FORAGE; INTERRILL EROSION; PLANT COMMUNITY; RAINFALL; RANGELAND; SIMULATION; SOIL EROSION; SOIL PROPERTY; THRESHOLD; VEGETATION DYNAMICS;

PATAGONIA; SOUTH AMERICA;

EID: 33845478137     PISSN: 15507424     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2111/06-009R.1     Document Type: Article

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