Small‐scale barriers mitigate desertification processes and enhance plant recruitment in a degraded semiarid grassland
Abstract Anthropogenic desertification is a problem that plagues drylands globally; however, the factors which maintain degraded states are often unclear. In Canyonlands National Park on the Colorado Plateau of southeastern Utah, many degraded grasslands have not recovered structure and function >...
Main Authors: | Stephen E. Fick, Cheryl Decker, Michael C. Duniway, Mark E. Miller |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Wiley
2016-06-01
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Series: | Ecosphere |
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Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1002/ecs2.1354 |
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