Influence of soil-ecological conditions on vegetation zonation in a Western Mongolian lake shore-semi-desert ecotone

Erdkunde

Volumn 61, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 72-92

  Strauss, Andrea ^a   Schickhoff, Udo ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GREIFSWALD   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Central Asia; Environmental change; Semidesert environments; Soil geography; Vegetation geography

Indexed keywords

ARID ENVIRONMENT; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; ECOTONE; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; ENVIRONMENTAL GRADIENT; LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY; PLANT COMMUNITY; SEMIARID REGION; SOIL ECOSYSTEM; STEPPE; VEGETATION; WETLAND; ZONATION;

ASIA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; GREAT LAKES BASIN; MONGOLIA; NORTH AMERICA;

EID: 34247139785     PISSN: 00140015     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3112/erdkunde.2007.01.05     Document Type: Article

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