A state-and-transition approach to alpine grasslands under abandonment

IForest

Volumn 3, Issue MARCH, 2010, Pages 44-51

  Targetti, Stefano ^a   Stagliano N ^a   Messeri, A ^b   Argenti, G ^a  

^a Department of Plant Soil and Environmental Science ^*  (Italy)

^b CIRSEMAF   (Italy)

Author keywords

Grazing management; Landolt ecological indices; Pastoral types; Shrub encroachment; State and transition model

Indexed keywords

EID: 84861454625     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19717458     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3832/ifor0525-003     Document Type: Article

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