Ecosystem engineer unleashed: Prosopis juliflora threatening ecosystem services?

Regional Environmental Change

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 155-167

  Ayanu, Yohannes ^a   Jentsch, Anke ^a   Müller Mahn, Detlef ^b   Rettberg, Simone ^a   Romankiewicz, Clemens ^a   Koellner, Thomas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BAYREUTH   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Invasive species; Land use; Livelihoods; Mapping; Pastoralism; Remote sensing

Indexed keywords

EID: 84939894567     PISSN: 14363798     EISSN: 1436378X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10113-014-0616-x     Document Type: Article

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