Practical guidance for developing state-and-transition models

Rangelands

Volumn 32, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 23-30

  Bestelmeyer, Brandon T ^a   Moseley, Kendra ^b   Shaver, Pat L ^c   Sanchez, Homer ^b   Briske, David D ^d   Fernandez Gimenez, Maria E ^e  

^a AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

^b USDA NRCS   (United States)

^c U S DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE   (United States)

^d TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA SET; FIELD SURVEY; INFILTRATION; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MORTALITY; VEGETATION COVER;

EID: 78650884388     PISSN: 01900528     EISSN: 1551501X     Source Type: Trade Journal    
DOI: 10.2111/RANGELANDS-D-10-00077.1     Document Type: Article

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