Choice of appropriate scale for land use monitoring: A case of the Tarim River Basin

Dili Xuebao/Acta Geographica Sinica

Volumn 62, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 659-668

  Zhao, Jin ^a,c   Chen, Xi ^a   Bao, Anming ^a   Duan, Yuanbin ^b  

^a XINJIANG INSTITUTE OF ECOLOGY AND GEOGRAPHY   (China)

^b Xinjiang Management Bureau of Tarim River   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

Appropriate scale; Land use monitoring; Landscape indexes; Normalized scale variance; Tarim River Basin

Indexed keywords

DIVERSITY INDEX; ECOLOGICAL IMPACT; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; LAND USE CHANGE; LANDSCAPE CHANGE; PATCH SIZE; SHRUBLAND; SPECIES DIVERSITY; STREAMFLOW; VEGETATION INDEX; WOODLAND;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; TARIM BASIN; XINJIANG UYGUR;

EID: 34548137740     PISSN: 03755444     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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