Ecosystem health assessment of the hilly and gully area of Loess Plateau in Inner Mongolia

Acta Ecologica Sinica

Volumn 25, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 1048-1056

  Huang, He Ping ^a,b   Yang, Jie ^a   Song, Bing Yu ^a   Bao, Tie Jun ^a  

^a INNER MONGOLIA UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b NANJING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Ecosystem; Health assessment; Indicator system; Inner Mongolia; Loess Plateau; Sustainable development

Indexed keywords

EID: 20344380206     PISSN: 10000933     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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