Saving the "green corridor": Recharging groundwater to restore riparian forest along the lower Tarim River, China

Ecological Restoration

Volumn 25, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 112-117

  Liu, Yongbo ^a,b   Chen, Yaning ^a  

^a XINJIANG INSTITUTE OF ECOLOGY AND GEOGRAPHY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

Author keywords

China; Groundwater recharge; Populus euphratica; Tarim River

Indexed keywords

POPULUS EUPHRATICA; SALIX;

EID: 34347334561     PISSN: 15434060     EISSN: 15434079     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3368/er.25.2.112     Document Type: Article

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