Desertification due to overgrazing in a dynamic commercial livestock-grass-soil system

Ecological Modelling

Volumn 205, Issue 3-4, 2007, Pages 277-288

  Ibáñez, Javier ^a   Martínez, Jaime ^b   Schnabel, Susanne ^c  

^a UNIVERSIDAD POLITÉCNICA DE MADRID   (Spain)

^b DEPARTAMENTO DE ECOLOGÍA FUNCIONAL Y EVOLUTIVA   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF EXTREMADURA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Overgrazing desertification; System dynamic model

Indexed keywords

DYNAMICAL SYSTEMS; ECONOMIC ANALYSIS; FARMS; SOILS; THREE DIMENSIONAL;

LIVESTOCK FARMING; OVERGRAZING DESERTIFICATION; SYSTEM DYNAMIC MODEL;

ECOLOGY;

COMMERCIAL SPECIES; DESERTIFICATION; LIVESTOCK; OVERGRAZING; SIMULATION;

AGRICULTURE; ANIMALS; ECOLOGY; ECONOMIC ANALYSIS;

EURASIA; EUROPE; SOUTHERN EUROPE; SPAIN;

POACEAE;

EID: 34248675223     PISSN: 03043800     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2007.02.024     Document Type: Article

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