The Influence of Historical Land Use and Water Availability on Grassland Restoration

Restoration Ecology

Volumn 18, Issue SUPPL. 1, 2010, Pages 217-225

  Xu, Zhuwen ^a,b   Wan, Shiqiang ^a   Zhu, Guilin ^a   Ren, Haiyan ^a,b   Han, Xingguo ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF BOTANY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

Community structure; Diversity stability; Historical land use; Old field; Steppe; Water addition

Indexed keywords

ABOVEGROUND BIOMASS; HABITAT RESTORATION; LAND USE; OLD FIELD; RESTORATION ECOLOGY; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES EVENNESS; SPECIES RICHNESS; STEPPE; WATER AVAILABILITY;

CHINA; NEI MONGGOL;

EID: 77956515932     PISSN: 10612971     EISSN: 1526100X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1526-100X.2009.00595.x     Document Type: Article

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