Long-term ecosystem effects of sand-binding vegetation in the Tengger Desert, Northern China

Restoration Ecology

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 376-390

  Li, Xin Rong ^a   Xiao, Hong Lang ^a   Zhang, Jing Guang ^a   Wang, Xin Ping ^a  

^a Chinese Academy of Sciences   (China)

Author keywords

Biodiversity; China; Ecological restoration; Long term effects; Sand binding vegetation; Tengger Desert

Indexed keywords

ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ENVIRONMENTAL RESTORATION; EROSION CONTROL; RESTORATION ECOLOGY; VEGETATION DYNAMICS;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; NINGXIA HUIZU; TENGGER DESERT;

ALGAE; ANIMALIA; AVES; BRYOPHYTA; HEXAPODA; INSECTA;

EID: 4644249834     PISSN: 10612971     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1061-2971.2004.00313.x     Document Type: Article

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