The temporal change of driving factors during the course of land desertification in arid region of North China: The case of Minqin County

Environmental Geology

Volumn 51, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 999-1008

  Ma, Yonghuan ^a,c   Fan, Shengyue ^b   Zhou, Lihua ^a   Dong, Zhaoyang ^a   Zhang, Kecun ^a   Feng, Jianmin ^a,d  

^a Chinese Academy of Sciences   (China)

^b MINZU UNIVERSITY OF CHINA   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^d XIANYANG NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Driving factors; Factor analysis; Land desertification; Minqin; Spatial change

Indexed keywords

ARID REGIONS; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; LANDFORMS; REGIONAL PLANNING;

DRIVING FACTORS; FACTOR ANALYSIS; LAND DESERTIFICATION; MINQIN; SPATIAL CHANGE;

LAND RECLAMATION;

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; ARID REGION; DESERTIFICATION; FACTOR ANALYSIS; LAND DEGRADATION; SPATIAL VARIATION; TEMPORAL VARIATION;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; GANSU; MINQIN;

EID: 33846102556     PISSN: 09430105     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00254-006-0369-z     Document Type: Article

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