The land ecological evolutional patterns in the source areas of the Yangtze and Yellow Rivers in the past 15 years, China

Environmental Monitoring and Assessment

Volumn 116, Issue 1-3, 2006, Pages 137-156

  Qian, Ju ^a   Wang, Genxu ^a   Ding, Yongjian ^a   Liu, Shiyin ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

Evolutional pattern; Land ecology; Source region; Spatial distribution; Yangtze and Yellow Rivers

Indexed keywords

EVOLUTIONAL PATTERN; LAND ECOLOGY; SOURCE REGION; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; YANGTZE RIVERS; YELLOW RIVERS;

ECOLOGY; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; REMOTE SENSING; RIVERS;

ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING;

LAKE WATER;

DESERTIFICATION; EVOLUTION; LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY; REMOTE SENSING; RIVER; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; WATER RESOURCE;

ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; CHINA; DESERTIFICATION; ECOTYPE; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY; RIVER; SOIL DEGRADATION; STEPPE; SWAMP;

BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; CHINA; CLIMATE; ECOSYSTEM; EVOLUTION; GEOGRAPHY; HUMAN ACTIVITIES; RAIN; RIVERS; SOIL; TEMPERATURE; TIME FACTORS;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; YANGTZE RIVER; YELLOW RIVER;

EID: 33745169745     PISSN: 01676369     EISSN: 15732959     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10661-006-7232-2     Document Type: Article

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