Indicating appropriate groundwater tables for desert river-bank forest at the Tarim River, Xinjiang, China

Environmental Monitoring and Assessment

Volumn 152, Issue 1-4, 2009, Pages 167-177

  Hao, Xing Ming ^a   Chen, Ya Ning ^a   Li, Wei Hong ^a  

^a XINJIANG INSTITUTE OF ECOLOGY AND GEOGRAPHY   (China)

Author keywords

Ecological niche breadth; Ecological niche overlap; Groundwater table depth; Lower reaches of Tarim River; Plant diversity

Indexed keywords

ECOLOGICAL NICHE BREADTH; ECOLOGICAL NICHE OVERLAP; GROUNDWATER TABLE DEPTH; LOWER REACHES OF TARIM RIVER; PLANT DIVERSITY;

ARID REGIONS; GROUNDWATER; GROUNDWATER RESOURCES; HYDROGEOLOGY; RIVERS; UNDERGROUND RESERVOIRS; VEGETATION;

ECOLOGY;

GROUND WATER;

DESERT; GROUNDWATER; NICHE BREADTH; NICHE OVERLAP; PLANT; RIVER BANK; SPECIES DIVERSITY; WATER LEVEL; WATER TABLE;

ARTICLE; CHINA; DESERT; ECOLOGICAL NICHE; ECOSYSTEM RESTORATION; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; RIPARIAN ECOSYSTEM; SPECIES DIVERSITY; VEGETATION;

BIODIVERSITY; CHINA; DESERT CLIMATE; ECOSYSTEM; RIVERS; TREES; WATER SUPPLY;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; TARIM RIVER; XINJIANG UYGUR;

EID: 63749120060     PISSN: 01676369     EISSN: 15732959     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10661-008-0305-7     Document Type: Article

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