Shrinkage and fragmentation of grasslands in the West Songnen Plain, China

Agriculture, Ecosystems and Environment

Volumn 129, Issue 1-3, 2009, Pages 315-324

  Wang, Zongming ^a   Song, Kaishan ^a   Zhang, Bai ^a   Liu, Dianwei ^a   Ren, Chunying ^a   Luo, Ling ^a   Yang, Ting ^a   Huang, Ni ^a   Hu, Liangjun ^b   Yang, Haijun ^b   Liu, Zhiming ^b  

^a NORTHEAST INSTITUTE OF GEOGRAPHY AND AGRICULTURAL ECOLOGY   (China)

^b NORTHEAST NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Fragmentation; GIS; Grassland shrinkage; Land use change; Remote sensing; West Songnen Plain, China

Indexed keywords

ARABLE LAND; CLIMATE CONDITIONS; GRASSLAND; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; LAND USE CHANGE; NATIVE SPECIES; REMOTE SENSING; SALINIZATION; SPATIAL VARIATION; TEMPORAL VARIATION; TOPOGRAPHIC MAPPING; VEGETATION COVER; VEGETATION MAPPING;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; SONGNEN PLAIN;

EID: 56449125366     PISSN: 01678809     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.agee.2008.10.009     Document Type: Article

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