Planning agriculture based on landuse responses of threatened semiarid grassland species in india

Biological Conservation

Volumn 175, Issue , 2014, Pages 129-139

  Dutta, Sutirtha ^a   Jhala, Yadvendradev ^a  

^a Wildlife Institute of India   (India)

Author keywords

Habitat relationships; Landuse allocation; Lesser florican (Sypheotides indica); Low impact agriculture; Spiny tailed lizard (Saara hardwickii)

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; AGRI-ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY; AGRICULTURAL PRACTICE; COMPENSATION SYSTEM; ENDANGERED SPECIES; GRASSLAND; GRAZING; INTERSPECIFIC VARIATION; LAND USE; LAND USE PLANNING; LIZARD; POPULATION DECLINE; SEMIARID REGION; VEGETATION STRUCTURE;

INDIA;

EID: 84901019120     PISSN: 00063207     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biocon.2014.04.026     Document Type: Article

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