Rainfall-tuned management facilitates dry forest recovery

Restoration Ecology

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 33-42

  Sitters, Judith ^a,b   Holmgren, Milena ^a   Stoorvogel, Jetse J ^a   López, Bernat C ^c  

^a WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c CREAF   (Spain)

Author keywords

Alternative stable state; Arid and semiarid ecosystem; Climate variability; Degradation; ENSO; Herbivory; NDVI; Peru; Prosopis pallida; Rainfall pulse; Reforestation; Restoration; South America; Topographic wetness index

Indexed keywords

ARID ENVIRONMENT; CLIMATE VARIATION; DRY FOREST; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; ENVIRONMENTAL DEGRADATION; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; HERBIVORY; NDVI; RAINFALL; REFORESTATION; REGENERATION; RESTORATION ECOLOGY; SEEDING; SEMIARID REGION; SHRUBLAND; VEGETATION COVER; WATER AVAILABILITY;

PERU;

PROSOPIS; PROSOPIS PALLIDA;

EID: 84855448105     PISSN: 10612971     EISSN: 1526100X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1526-100X.2010.00761.x     Document Type: Article

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