Influence of grazing on hydraulic and mechanical properties of semiarid steppe soils under different vegetation type in Inner Mongolia, China

Plant and Soil

Volumn 340, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 59-72

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

^a UNIVERSITY OF KIEL   (Germany)

^b BRANDENBURG UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^c NORTHWEST A F UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Aggregate tensile strength; Grazing; Precompression stress; Repellency index; Steppe

Indexed keywords

FREEZING; GRASS; GRAZING; HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY; POROSITY; SEMIARID REGION; SOIL AGGREGATE; SOIL DEPTH; SOIL MOISTURE; SOIL STRENGTH; SOIL STRUCTURE; STEPPE; TENSILE STRENGTH; THAWING; TRAMPLING; VEGETATION TYPE;

CHINA; NEI MONGGOL;

ANIMALIA; LEYMUS CHINENSIS; STIPA GRANDIS;

EID: 79951813839     PISSN: 0032079X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11104-010-0405-3     Document Type: Article

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