Herbaceous species diversity and soil attributes along a forest-savanna-grassland continuum in a dry tropical region

Ecological Engineering

Volumn 103, Issue , 2017, Pages 226-235

  Singh, Rishikesh ^a   Sagar, R ^a   Srivastava, Pratap ^a   Singh, Pardeep ^b   Singh, J S ^a  

^a BANARAS HINDU UNIVERSITY   (India)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DELHI   (India)

Author keywords

Community composition; Dry tropics; Herbaceous diversity; Plant biomass; Soil nutrients; Vindhyan forests

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; BIOMASS; ECOLOGY; ECOSYSTEMS; FORESTRY; MOISTURE; NITROGEN; NUTRIENTS; PLANTS (BOTANY); SOIL MOISTURE; SOILS; TROPICS;

COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; HERBACEOUS DIVERSITY; PLANT BIOMASS; SOIL NUTRIENTS; VINDHYAN FORESTS;

VEGETATION;

ARID REGION; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; DECIDUOUS FOREST; GRASSLAND; HERB; PATCH DYNAMICS; PHYTOMASS; SAVANNA; SOIL NUTRIENT; SOIL WATER; SOIL-VEGETATION INTERACTION; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES EVENNESS; SPECIES RICHNESS; TROPICAL ENVIRONMENT; VEGETATION DYNAMICS;

INDIA; MADHYA PRADESH; VINDHYA RANGE;

CYNODON DACTYLON; CYPERUS COMPRESSUS; EVOLVULUS NUMMULARIUS; FABACEAE; JUSTICIA SIMPLEX;

EID: 85017298645     PISSN: 09258574     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecoleng.2017.04.020     Document Type: Article

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