Cultivation and grazing altered evapotranspiration and dynamics in Inner Mongolia steppes

Agricultural and Forest Meteorology

Volumn 149, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 1810-1819

  Miao, Haixia ^a,b   Chen, Shiping ^a   Chen, Jiquan ^c   Zhang, Wenli ^a,d   Zhang, Ping ^a,b   Wei, Long ^a,b   Han, Xingguo ^a   Lin, Guanghui ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF BOTANY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TOLEDO   (United States)

^d CHINA THREE GORGES UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Cultivation; Eddy covariance; ET; Grazing; Inner Mongolia; Steppe

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL LAND; CULTIVATION; EDDY COVARIANCE; ENVIRONMENTAL DEGRADATION; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; GRAZING; GROWING SEASON; GROWTH RATE; PHENOLOGY; SOIL MOISTURE; STEPPE; VEGETATION DYNAMICS;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; NEI MONGGOL;

EID: 69649091661     PISSN: 01681923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.agrformet.2009.06.011     Document Type: Article

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