Effects of fertilization and grazing exclosure on vegetation recovery in a degraded alpine meadow on the Tibetan Plateau

Chinese Journal of Applied and Environmental Biology

Volumn 19, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 905-913

  Zong, Ning ^a,b   Shi, Peili ^a   Jiang, Jing ^a,b   Meng, Fengshou ^a,b   Ma, Weiling ^a,b   Xiong, Dingpeng ^a,b   Song, Minghua ^a   Zhang, Xianzhou ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOGRAPHIC SCIENCES AND NATURAL RESOURCES RESEARCH   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

Degraded alpine meadow; Fertilization; Grazing exclosure; Tibetan plateau; Vegetation restoration

Indexed keywords

EID: 84894350745     PISSN: 1006687X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3724/SP.J.1145.2013.00905     Document Type: Article

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