Comparing patterns of ecosystem service consumption and perceptions of range management between ethnic herders in Inner Mongolia and Mongolia

Environmental Research Letters

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2010, Pages

  Zhen, L ^a   Ochirbat, B ^b   Lv, Y ^a   Wei, Y J ^a,c   Liu, X L ^a,c   Chen, J Q ^d   Yao, Z J ^a   Li, F ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOGRAPHIC SCIENCES AND NATURAL RESOURCES RESEARCH   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF CHEMISTRY AND CHEMICAL TECHNOLOGY   (Mongolia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TOLEDO   (United States)

Author keywords

Consumption; Ecosystem services; Mongolian Plateau; Perceptions

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL WASTES; AGRICULTURE; ANIMALS; CEREAL PRODUCTS; INFORMATION MANAGEMENT; SENSORY PERCEPTION; SURVEYS;

CONSUMPTION; CONSUMPTION PATTERNS; ECOSYSTEM SERVICES; HUMAN INTERVENTION; LIVESTOCK PRODUCTION; MONGOLIANS; RESOURCE CONSUMPTION; RESOURCE MANAGEMENT POLICY;

ECOSYSTEMS;

EID: 77950631229     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17489326     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/5/1/015001     Document Type: Article

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