Assessment of grazing effect on sheep fescue (Festuca valesiaca) dominated steppe rangelands, in the semi-arid Central Anatolian region of Turkey

Journal of Arid Environments

Volumn 73, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 1149-1157

  Firincioglu H K ^a   Seefeldt, S S ^b   Sahin B ^c   Vural, M ^c  

^a Sub Arctic Agricultural Research Unit ^*  (Turkey)

^b U S DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE   (United States)

^c GAZI UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Grazing exclosure; Plant diversity; Redundancy analysis; Spatial heterogeneity; Thymus sipyleus; Vegetation pattern

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE ESTIMATION; GRAZING; PLANT COMMUNITY; RANGELAND; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SEMIARID REGION; SPECIES RICHNESS; STEPPE; VEGETATION COVER;

ANATOLIA; EURASIA; TURKEY;

FESTUCA OVINA; FESTUCA VALESIACA; OVIS ARIES;

EID: 69249202361     PISSN: 01401963     EISSN: 1095922X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jaridenv.2009.05.012     Document Type: Article

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