Vegetation Spatial Heterogeneity of Different Soil Regions in Inner Mongolia, China

Tsinghua Science and Technology

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 413-423

  Huang, Daming ^a   Liu, Xiaoni ^b   Song, Baimin ^a   Chen, Jun ^c   Shiyomi, Masae ^c   Wang, Yusheng ^d   Takahashi, Shigeo ^e   Hori, Yoshimichi ^c   Yamamura, Yasuo ^c  

^a TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b GANSU AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c IBARAKI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d NORTHEAST AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^e NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF LIVESTOCK AND GRASSLAND SCIENCE   (Japan)

Author keywords

beta binomial distribution; Inner Mongolia; soil region; spatial heterogeneity; vegetation

Indexed keywords

BINOMIAL DISTRIBUTION; SPATIAL HETEROGENEITY; VEGETATION DIVERSITY INDEX;

ECOSYSTEMS; FORESTRY; VEGETATION;

SOILS;

ECOSYSTEMS; FORESTRY; PLANTS; SOIL;

EID: 34447633342     PISSN: 10070214     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1007-0214(07)70062-7     Document Type: Article

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