The "bug island" effect of shrubs and its formation mechanism in Horqin Sand Land, Inner Mongolia

Catena

Volumn 105, Issue , 2013, Pages 69-74

  Zhao, Ha Lin ^a   Liu, Ren Tao ^b  

^a Chinese Academy of Sciences   (China)

^b NINGXIA UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

"Bug island" effect; "Fertile island" effect; Inner Mongolia; Moving sand dune; Soil macro arthropod

Indexed keywords

AGGREGATION BEHAVIOR; ARTHROPOD; BIOMASS; CANOPY; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; DUNE; LITTER; SHRUB; SOIL ECOSYSTEM; SOIL FAUNA; SOIL FERTILITY; SOIL TEXTURE; WIND VELOCITY;

CHINA; HORQIN DESERT; NEI MONGGOL;

EID: 84874557467     PISSN: 03418162     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.catena.2013.01.009     Document Type: Article

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