Resource availability through rainwater harvesting influenced vegetation diversity and herbage yield in hillslope of Aravalli in India

Frontiers of Agriculture in China

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 145-158

  Singh, Genda ^a   Rani, Abha ^a   Bala, N ^a   Shukla, S ^a   Baloch, Sheraram ^a   Limba, N K ^a  

^a ARID FOREST RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (India)

Author keywords

Diversity productivity relation; Herbage diversity; Herbage drymass; Soil nutrients; Soil water dynamics

Indexed keywords

EID: 77952288074     PISSN: 16737334     EISSN: 1673744X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11703-010-0107-x     Document Type: Article

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