Effects of precipitation on grassland ecosystem restoration under grazing exclusion in Inner Mongolia, China

Landscape Ecology

Volumn 29, Issue 10, 2014, Pages 1657-1673

  Hao, Lu ^a   Sun, Ge ^b   Liu, Yongqiang ^b   Gao, Zhiqiu ^a   He, Junjie ^c   Shi, Tingting ^a   Wu, Bingjuan ^d  

^a NANJING UNIVERSITY OF INFORMATION SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b USDA FOREST SERVICE   (United States)

^c Xilinhot National Climatological Observatory   (China)

^d Jiangsu Meteorological Bureau   (China)

Author keywords

Climatic change; Community characteristics; Grassland grazing; Livestock exclusion; Temperate steppe

Indexed keywords

EID: 84914160664     PISSN: 09212973     EISSN: 15729761     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10980-014-0092-1     Document Type: Article

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