Plant cover as a tool for monitoring desertification in mountain Mediterranean rangelands

Management of Environmental Quality: An International Journal

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 69-81

  Papanastasis, Vasilios P ^a   Kyriakakis, Stratis ^b   Kazakis, George ^c   Abid, Maher ^c   Doulis, Andreas ^c  

^a ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

^b Direction of Forests   (Greece)

^c MEDITERRANEAN AGRONOMIC INSTITUTE OF CHANIA   (Greece)

Author keywords

Environment; Farming; Greece; Land use

Indexed keywords

EID: 84986079053     PISSN: 14777835     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/14777830310460397     Document Type: Article

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