Agroecosystem health assessment in western China

Acta Ecologica Sinica

Volumn 25, Issue 11, 2005, Pages 3028-3036

  Xie, Hua Lin ^a   Li, Bo ^a   Wang, Chuan Sheng ^b   Yang, Bo ^a   Zhang, Xin Shi ^a  

^a BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF GEOGRAPHIC SCIENCES AND NATURAL RESOURCES RESEARCH   (China)

Author keywords

Agroecosystem; Ecosystem health assessment; Index system; Western China

Indexed keywords

EID: 28944450354     PISSN: 10000933     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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