Review on some issues of ecohydrology research at the watershed scale

Acta Ecologica Sinica

Volumn 25, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 892-903

  Wang, Gen Xu ^a,b   Liu, Gui Min ^a   Chang, Juan ^b  

^a Chinese Academy of Sciences   (China)

^b LANZHOU UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Ecohydrological process; Ecological water demand quantity; Ecological water resource; Estimate system; Watershed

Indexed keywords

EID: 18944400707     PISSN: 10000933     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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