Vegetation pattern variation, soil degradation and their relationship along a grassland desertification gradient in Horqin Sandy Land, northern China

Environmental Geology

Volumn 58, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 1227-1237

  Zuo, Xiaoan ^a   Zhao, Halin ^a   Zhao, Xueyong ^a   Guo, Yirui ^a   Yun, Jianying ^a   Wang, Shaokun ^a   Miyasaka, Takafumi ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

CCA; Desertification; Horqin Sandy Land; Soil properties; Vegetation pattern

Indexed keywords

CCA; DESERTIFICATION; HORQIN SANDY LAND; SOIL PROPERTIES; VEGETATION PATTERN;

BIOMASS; CLIMATOLOGY; DEGRADATION; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; FORESTRY; MULTIVARIANT ANALYSIS; ORGANIC CARBON; PHOSPHORUS; VEGETATION;

SOILS;

COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; DESERTIFICATION; GRASSLAND; HERB; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PHYTOMASS; PLANT COMMUNITY; SHRUB; SOIL DEGRADATION; SOIL NUTRIENT; SOIL ORGANIC MATTER; SOIL PROPERTY; VEGETATION COVER; VEGETATION DYNAMICS;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; HORQIN DESERT;

EID: 70349873802     PISSN: 09430105     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00254-008-1617-1     Document Type: Article

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