Post-fire resource redistribution and fertility island dynamics in shrub encroached desert grasslands: A modeling approach

Landscape Ecology

Volumn 24, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 325-335

  Ravi, Sujith ^a   D'Odorico, Paolo ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Desertification; Fires; Land degradation; Shrub encroachment; Soil erosion

Indexed keywords

DESERT; DESERTIFICATION; DOMINANCE; ECOSYSTEM FUNCTION; ECOSYSTEM STRUCTURE; FERTILITY; FIRE; GRASSLAND; ISLAND; LAND DEGRADATION; MODELING; PLANT COMMUNITY; SHRUB; SOIL EROSION; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION;

POACEAE;

EID: 60449105094     PISSN: 09212973     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10980-008-9307-7     Document Type: Article

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