Effects of spring-summer grazing on longitudinal dune surface in southern gurbantunggut desert

Journal of Geographical Sciences

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 299-308

  Wang, Xueqin ^a   Zhang, Yuanming ^a   Jiang, Jin ^a   Yang, Weikang ^a   Guo, Hongxu ^a,b   Hu, Yongfeng ^a,b  

^a XINJIANG INSTITUTE OF ECOLOGY AND GEOGRAPHY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

Dune surface characteristics; Gurbantunggut Desert; Semi fixed longitudinal dune; Spring summer grazing

Indexed keywords

EID: 70349428817     PISSN: 1009637X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11442-009-0299-2     Document Type: Article

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