Global attention to Turkey due to desertification

Environmental Monitoring and Assessment

Volumn 128, Issue 1-3, 2007, Pages 489-493

  Camci Çetin, Sema ^a   Karaca, A ^b   Haktanir, K ^b   Yildiz, H ^c  

^a GAZIOSMANPASA UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b ANKARA UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^c CENTRAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOR FIELD CROPS   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Biodiversity; Climate; Desertification; Land degredation; Turkey

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; CLIMATE CHANGE; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; EROSION; FIRES; LAND USE; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; URBAN PLANNING; VEGETATION;

DESERTIFICATION; GRAZING; LAND DEGRADATION; SALINIZATION; URBANIZATION;

DEFORESTATION;

BIODIVERSITY; DESERTIFICATION; EROSION CONTROL; FOOD AND AGRICULTURAL ORGANIZATION; GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE; LAND DEGRADATION; NATO; NONPROFIT ORGANIZATION; STRATEGIC APPROACH; UNITED NATIONS;

AGRICULTURE; ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; DECISION MAKING; DESERTIFICATION; ECONOMICS; FIRE; FLORA; FOREST; GENETIC EROSION; GRAZING; INDUSTRY; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; LAND USE; MARSH; MIDDLE EAST; NON PROFIT ORGANIZATION; NONHUMAN; PLANT GROWTH; POPULATION SIZE; PROCESS MODEL; SOCIAL STRUCTURE; SOIL EROSION; SOUTHERN EUROPE; STEPPE; TOPOGRAPHY; TURKEY (REPUBLIC); UNITED NATIONS; URBANIZATION; VEGETATION; VERTEBRATE; WILD TYPE;

CLIMATE; NATURAL DISASTERS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TURKEY; WATER;

BIODIVERSITY; DESERTS; FOREST FIRES; LAND USE; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PLANTS; SOIL EROSION;

ANATOLIA; ASIA; EURASIA; EUROPE; MEDITERRANEAN REGION; MEDITERRANEAN SEA; MIDDLE EAST; TURKEY;

VERTEBRATA;

EID: 34247891556     PISSN: 01676369     EISSN: 15732959     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10661-006-9342-2     Document Type: Article

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