Studying Short-Time Dynamics of Vegetation and Soil Organic Carbon in a Semi-arid Rangeland (Case Study: Zharf, Khorasan Province, Iran)

Subject Areas : Relationship between Animal and Rangeland

Mohamad Taghi Kashki ¹ , Amr Ali Shahmoradi ² , Ehsan Zandi Esfahan ³

1 - Research Center for Agriculture and Natural Resources of Khorasan Razavi, Mashad, Iran
2 - Rangeland Research Division, Research Institute of Forests and Rangelands, Tehran, Iran
3 - Rangeland Research Division, Research Institute of Forests and Rangelands, Tehran, Iran

Received: 2014-01-12 Accepted : 2014-11-17 Published : 2015-01-01

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