Vegetation dynamics and forest landscape restoration in the upper min river watershed, Sichuan, China

Restoration Ecology

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 348-358

  Zhou, Ping ^a   Luukkanen, Olavi ^a   Tokola, Timo ^a   Nieminen, Juhana ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

Author keywords

Forest landscape restoration; Upper Min River watershed; Upper Yangtze basin; Vegetation distribution; Vegetation dynamics

Indexed keywords

FOREST COVER; FOREST ECOSYSTEM; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RESTORATION ECOLOGY; VEGETATION DYNAMICS; VEGETATION TYPE; WATERSHED;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; MIN RIVER [SICHUAN]; SICHUAN; YANGTZE BASIN;

EID: 44449114676     PISSN: 10612971     EISSN: 1526100X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1526-100X.2007.00307.x     Document Type: Article

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