Ecohydrological feedback mechanisms in arid rangelands: Simulating the impacts of topography and land use

Basic and Applied Ecology

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 319-329

  Popp, Alexander ^a   Blaum, Niels ^a   Jeltsch, Florian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF POTSDAM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Grazing; Land use; Slope; Soil plant interactions; Spatial explicit simulation model

Indexed keywords

POACEAE;

EID: 67249157451     PISSN: 14391791     EISSN: 16180089     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.baae.2008.06.002     Document Type: Article

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