Impacts of eco-tourism development on landscape ecology with special reference to the Gudoushan nature reserve in Guangdong Province

Shengtai Xuebao/ Acta Ecologica Sinica

Volumn 27, Issue 10, 2007, Pages 4045-4056

  Xu, Song Jun ^a   Qiu, Peng Hua ^a,b   Xie, Gen Zong ^b   Liu, Hao ^a   Hu, Bi Yan ^a  

^a SOUTH CHINA NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b HAINAN NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Eco tourism; Landscape ecology; Nature reserve

Indexed keywords

EID: 56549116200     PISSN: 10000933     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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