Vegetation indicators for grazing activities on grassland to be implemented in outcome-oriented agri-environmental payment schemes in North-East Germany

Ecological Indicators

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 719-726

  Höft, Annika ^a   Müller, Jürgen ^a   Gerowitt, Bärbel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROSTOCK   (Germany)

Author keywords

Agriculture; Indicator species; Non commodity outputs; Pasture; Payments for environmental services

Indexed keywords

ANOVA TEST; DATA BASE; ENVIRONMENTAL SERVICES; GERMANY; INDICATOR FUNCTIONS; INDICATOR SPECIES; MANAGEMENT REGIME; NON-COMMODITY OUTPUTS; NUTRIENT AVAILABILITY; PLANT SPECIES; POTENTIAL INDICATORS; REFERENCE SYSTEMS; SELECTION CRITERIA;

GROUNDWATER; MOISTURE DETERMINATION; SOIL MOISTURE; VEGETATION;

FORESTRY;

AGRI-ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY; BIOINDICATOR; DATABASE; GRASSLAND; GRAZING; IMPLEMENTATION PROCESS; LIVESTOCK; NUTRIENT AVAILABILITY; PASTURE; SOIL MOISTURE; SPECIES INVENTORY;

GERMANY;

EID: 75349096332     PISSN: 1470160X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolind.2009.12.001     Document Type: Article

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