Impacts of grazing and climate change on the aboveground net primary productivity of mountainous grassland ecosystems along altitudinal gradients over the Northern Tianshan Mountains, china

Shengtai Xuebao/ Acta Ecologica Sinica

Volumn 32, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 0082-0091

  Zhou, Decheng ^a,b   Luo, Geping ^a   Han, Qifei ^a   Yin, Changying ^a   Li, Longhui ^a   Hu, Yukun ^a  

^a XINJIANG INSTITUTE OF ECOLOGY AND GEOGRAPHY   (China)

^b PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Aboveground net primary production; Climate variability; Grazing; Mountainous grassland ecosystem; Northern tianshan mountains

Indexed keywords

ALPINE ENVIRONMENT; ALTITUDE; ARID REGION; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE VARIATION; DROUGHT STRESS; GRASSLAND; GRAZING; HUMID ENVIRONMENT; MEADOW; MOUNTAIN REGION; NET PRIMARY PRODUCTION; NONLINEARITY; NUMERICAL MODEL;

TIEN SHAN;

EID: 84863026983     PISSN: 10000933     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5846/stxb201010141445     Document Type: Article

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