Response of soil moisture and temperature to grazing intensity in a Leymus chinensis steppe, Inner Mongolia

Plant and Soil

Volumn 340, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 89-102

  Zhao, Ying ^a,b   Peth, Stephan ^b   Reszkowska, Agnieszka ^b   Gan, Lei ^b   Krümmelbein, Julia ^c   Peng, Xinhua ^d   Horn, Rainer ^b  

^a NORTHWEST A F UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KIEL   (Germany)

^c BRANDENBURG UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^d INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

Grazing intensity; Long term monitoring; Plant available water; Semiarid steppe; Soil moisture; Soil temperature

Indexed keywords

GRASS; GRAZING; LANDSCAPE CHANGE; MONITORING SYSTEM; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); SEASONAL VARIATION; SEMIARID REGION; SOIL MOISTURE; SOIL STRUCTURE; SOIL TEMPERATURE; STEPPE; TRAMPLING; WATER AVAILABILITY;

CHINA; NEI MONGGOL;

LEYMUS CHINENSIS;

EID: 79951809707     PISSN: 0032079X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11104-010-0460-9     Document Type: Article

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