Land-cover changes and its impacts on ecological variables in the headwaters area of the Yangtze River, China

Environmental Monitoring and Assessment

Volumn 120, Issue 1-3, 2006, Pages 361-385

  Wang, Genxu ^a,b   Wang, Yibo ^b   Kubota, Jumpei ^c  

^a INSTITUTE OF MOUNTAIN HAZARDS AND ENVIRONMENT   (China)

^b LANZHOU UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOR HUMANITY AND NATURE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Ecological functionality; Headwater area of the Yangtze river; Land cover; Landscape evolution; Permafrost

Indexed keywords

ECOLOGICAL FUNCTIONALITY; HEADWATER; LAND COVER; LANDSCAPE EVOLUTION;

BIOMASS; DEGRADATION; ECOLOGY; ECOSYSTEMS; PERMAFROST; RIVERS;

LAND USE;

NITROGEN; ORGANIC MATTER;

ECOLOGICAL IMPACT; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT; HEADWATER; LAND COVER; LANDSCAPE EVOLUTION; PERMAFROST; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS;

ARTICLE; BIOMASS; BIOMASS PRODUCTION; CHINA; CLIMATE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; EVOLUTION; LAND USE; LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SOIL POLLUTION; STOCKING DENSITY; SWAMP; WATER SUPPLY;

AGRICULTURE; CHINA; CLIMATE; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; ECOLOGY; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; RIVERS; TREES;

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

OVIS ARIES;

EID: 33747481650     PISSN: 01676369     EISSN: 15732959     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10661-005-9068-6     Document Type: Article

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