The effects of long-term grazing exclosures on range plants in the Central Anatolian Region of turkey

Environmental Management

Volumn 39, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 326-337

  Firincioǧlu, Hüseyin K ^a   Seefeldt, Steven S ^b   Şahin, Bilal ^c  

^a CENTRAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOR FIELD CROPS   (Turkey)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA FAIRBANKS   (United States)

^c GAZI UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Biodiversity; Central Anatolia; Diversity; Exclosure; Grazing; Modified Whittaker plots; Steppe rangelands

Indexed keywords

ANATOLIAN REGION OF TURKEY (CAR); GRAZING; MODIFIED WHITTAKER PLOTS; STEPPE RANGELANDS;

BIODIVERSITY; ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; PHASE COMPOSITION; PLANTS (BOTANY);

VEGETATION;

BIODIVERSITY; GRAZING MANAGEMENT; GRAZING PRESSURE; HERB; PLANT COMMUNITY; RANGELAND; SHRUB; SPECIES RICHNESS; STEPPE;

ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; GRAZING; NONHUMAN; PLANT; POPULATION ABUNDANCE; POPULATION DYNAMICS; TURKEY (REPUBLIC); VEGETATION;

ANIMALS; ECOSYSTEM; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; PLANTS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TURKEY;

ANATOLIA; EURASIA; TURKEY;

ANIMALIA; BROMUS; FESTUCA VALESIACA; GENISTA; GLOBULARIA; POA BULBOSA; POACEAE;

EID: 33847111705     PISSN: 0364152X     EISSN: 14321009     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00267-005-0392-y     Document Type: Article

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