The flood pulse as the underlying driver of vegetation in the largest wetland and fishery of the mekong basin

Ambio

Volumn 42, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 864-876

  Arias, Mauricio E ^a   Cochrane, Thomas A ^a   Norton, David ^a   Killeen, Timothy J ^b   Khon, Puthea ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CANTERBURY   (New Zealand)

^b Carbon and Commodities Program   (United States)

^c Pannasastra University   (Cambodia)

Author keywords

Cambodia; Ecohydrology; Tropical floodplain vegetation; Wetlands

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL EXTENSION; CULTIVATION; ECOHYDROLOGY; FIELD SURVEY; FIRE; FLOODING; FLOODPLAIN; GRAZING; HYDROELECTRIC POWER; INLAND FISHERY; NATURE-SOCIETY RELATIONS; RIVER BASIN; VEGETATION COVER; WETLAND;

CAMBODIA; MEKONG BASIN; TONLE LAKE;

AGRICULTURE; ARTICLE; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; FISHERY; FLOODING; HUMAN; SOUTHEAST ASIA; WETLAND;

AGRICULTURE; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; FISHERIES; FLOODS; HUMANS; MEKONG VALLEY; WETLANDS;

EID: 84887357401     PISSN: 00447447     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s13280-013-0424-4     Document Type: Review

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