How Pastoralists in Mongolia perceive vegetation changes caused by grazing

Nomadic Peoples

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 67-73

  Kakinuma, Kaoru ^a   Ozaki, Takahiro ^b   Takatsuki, Seiki ^c   Chuluun, Jonjin ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b KAGOSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c AZABU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d Meteorological station in Bulgan Prefecture   (Mongolia)

Author keywords

Ecological knowledge; Grazing management; Mobile pastoralists; Mongolia; Overgrazing; Vegetation change

Indexed keywords

GRAZING MANAGEMENT; LAND MANAGEMENT; OVERGRAZING; PASTORALISM; VEGETATION DYNAMICS;

ASIA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; MONGOLIA;

CAREX; POACEAE;

EID: 62549102881     PISSN: 08227942     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3167/np.2008.120205     Document Type: Article

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