Applying local knowledge to rangeland management in northern Mongolia: do ‘narrow plants’ reflect the carrying capacity of the land?

Pastoralism

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Kakinuma, Kaoru ^a   Takatsuki, Seiki ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b AZABU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Forage nutrition; Grazing gradients; Local knowledge; Nomadic herders; Plant productivity; Vegetation changes

Indexed keywords

EID: 84975221218     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20417136     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/2041-7136-2-23     Document Type: Article

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