Can edaphic factors demonstrate landscape-scale differences in vegetation responses to grazing?

Plant Ecology

Volumn 194, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 51-66

  Sasaki, Takehiro ^a   Okayasu, Tomoo ^a   Shirato, Yasuhito ^b   Jamsran, Undarmaa ^c   Okubo, Satoru ^a   Takeuchi, Kazuhiko ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR AGRO ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

^c MONGOLIAN UNIVERSITY OF LIFE SCIENCES   (Mongolia)

Author keywords

Arid and semi arid rangelands; Land degradation; Ordination; Plant functional types

Indexed keywords

FLORISTICS; GRAZING; LAND DEGRADATION; LANDSCAPE; ORDINATION; PLANT COMMUNITY; RANGELAND; SEMIARID REGION; SOIL PROPERTY; VEGETATION;

EID: 36448988564     PISSN: 13850237     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11258-007-9274-0     Document Type: Article

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