Effects of land use intensity on the restoration capacity of sandy land vegetation and soil moisture in fenced sandy land in desert area

Contemporary Problems of Ecology

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 128-136

  Wang, Yan ^a   Zhao, Ha Lin ^a   Zhao, Xue Yong ^a  

^a Chinese Academy of Sciences   (China)

Author keywords

biomass; diversity; land use intensity; soil moisture; two enclosures; vegetation

Indexed keywords

ABOVEGROUND BIOMASS; BIOMASS; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; DESERT; DIVERSITY INDEX; DOMINANCE; ENCLOSURE EXPERIMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL RESTORATION; LAND USE; PLANT COMMUNITY; REGENERATION; SANDY SOIL; SHRUB; SOIL MOISTURE; SPECIES EVENNESS;

CHINA;

EID: 84874923998     PISSN: 19954255     EISSN: 19954263     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1134/S1995425513010198     Document Type: Article

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