An inventory of forest relicts in the pastures of Southern Tibet (Xizang A.R., China)

Plant Ecology

Volumn 194, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 157-177

  Miehe, Georg ^a   Miehe, Sabine ^a   Will, Martin ^a   Opgenoorth, Lars ^a   Duo, La ^b   Dorgeh, Tsering ^b   Liu, Jianquan ^c  

^a PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

^b TIBET UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c NORTHWEST INSTITUTE OF PLATEAU BIOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

China; Environmental change; Forest history; Habitat fragmentation; Juniperus; Kobresia; Tibet

Indexed keywords

DESERT; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; PASTURE; POLLEN; REFORESTATION; STAND STRUCTURE; VEGETATION HISTORY;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; LHASA; XIZANG;

BOS; JUNIPERUS; JUNIPERUS CONVALLIUM; JUNIPERUS TIBETICA; KOBRESIA;

EID: 36649020140     PISSN: 13850237     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11258-007-9282-0     Document Type: Article

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