Impact of feedbacks on Chihuahuan desert grasslands: Transience and metastability

Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences

Volumn 114, Issue 1, 2009, Pages

  Okin, Gregory S ^a   D'Odorico, Paolo ^b   Archer, Steven R ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOMASS; CLIMATE CHANGE; DEMOGRAPHIC SURVEY; GRASS; GRASSLAND; GRAZING; NUMERICAL MODEL; SHRUB; SOIL EROSION;

NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

POACEAE;

EID: 67649557412     PISSN: 01480227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2008JG000833     Document Type: Article

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