Individual plant and population biomass of dominant shrubs in Patagonian grazed fields

Ecologia Austral

Volumn 20, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 269-279

  Oñatibia, Gastón R ^a   Aguiar, Martín R ^a   Cipriotti, Pablo A ^b   Troiano, Fernando ^a  

^a Instituto de Investigaciones Fisiologicas y Ecologicas   (Argentina)

^b UNIVERSIDAD DE BUENOS AIRES   (Argentina)

Author keywords

Adesmia volckmannii; Allometric equations; Mulinum spinosum; Semi arid ecosystems; Senecio filaginoides; Woody species

Indexed keywords

ABOVEGROUND BIOMASS; ALLOMETRY; COEXISTENCE; DEMOGRAPHY; DOMINANCE; GRAZING; GROWTH MODELING; LAND USE CHANGE; LEAF; PHYTOMASS; SEMIARID REGION; SHRUB; SIZE STRUCTURE; STEPPE; WOOD;

PATAGONIA;

ADESMIA VOLCKMANNII; MULINUM SPINOSUM; SENECIO; SENECIO FILAGINOIDES;

EID: 78650782582     PISSN: 03275477     EISSN: 1667782X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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