Drivers of the dynamics in net primary productivity across ecological zones on the Mongolian Plateau

Landscape Ecology

Volumn 28, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 725-739

  Wang, Jun ^a   Brown, Daniel G ^a   Chen, Jiquan ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOLEDO   (United States)

Author keywords

Drivers; Ecological zones; Grassland ecosystem; Mongolian Plateau; Net primary productivity; Spatial panel data models

Indexed keywords

GRASSLAND; GRAZING; HUMAN ACTIVITY; LAND USE CHANGE; LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY; LIVESTOCK FARMING; NET PRIMARY PRODUCTION; PANEL DATA; POLICY APPROACH; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); SOCIOECONOMIC CONDITIONS; SUSTAINABILITY; VEGETATION DYNAMICS;

MONGOLIAN PLATEAU;

EID: 84876082751     PISSN: 09212973     EISSN: 15729761     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10980-013-9865-1     Document Type: Article

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