Is the patch size distribution of vegetation a suitable indicator of desertification processes?

Ecology

Volumn 90, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 1729-1735

  Maestre, Fernando T ^a   Escudero, Adrian ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD REY JUAN CARLOS   (Spain)

Author keywords

Desertification; Drylands; Land degradation; Mediterranean; Patch size distribution; Power law; Soil properties; Spain; Spatial pattern; Species interactions; Stipa tenacissima

Indexed keywords

BIOINDICATOR; DESERTIFICATION; ENVIRONMENTAL DEGRADATION; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; GRASS; PATCH SIZE; PERENNIAL PLANT; SIZE DISTRIBUTION; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; VEGETATION COVER; VEGETATION DYNAMICS;

ARTICLE; DEMOGRAPHY; DESERT CLIMATE; ECOSYSTEM; PLANT; SOIL; THEORETICAL MODEL;

DEMOGRAPHY; DESERT CLIMATE; ECOSYSTEM; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PLANTS; SOIL;

STIPA TENACISSIMA;

EID: 67650687064     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/08-2096.1     Document Type: Article

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