Agricultural legacies in the great basin alter vegetation cover, composition, and response to precipitation

Ecosystems

Volumn 9, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 1231-1241

  Elmore, Andrew J ^a,c   Mustard, John F ^a   Hamburg, Steven P ^a   Manning, Sara J ^b  

^a BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Inyo County Water Department   (United States)

^c DARTMOUTH COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Great Basin; Historic cultivation; Land use legacy; Linear spectral mixture analysis; Owens Valley; Precipitation variability; Remote sensing

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL HISTORY; ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; LAND COVER; LAND USE CHANGE; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); REMOTE SENSING; SEMIARID REGION; VEGETATION COVER; VEGETATION DYNAMICS;

BASIN AND RANGE PROVINCE; CALIFORNIA; GREAT BASIN; NORTH AMERICA; OWENS VALLEY; UNITED STATES;

POACEAE;

EID: 33846479389     PISSN: 14329840     EISSN: 14350629     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10021-005-0069-7     Document Type: Article

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