Relationships between landscape structure and rocky desertification in karst region of northwestern Guangxi

Chinese Journal of Applied Ecology

Volumn 19, Issue 11, 2008, Pages 2467-2472

  Zhang, Xiao Nan ^a,b   Wang, Ke Lin ^a   Chen, Hong Song ^a   Zhang, Wei ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

Karst; Landscape spatial structure; Rocky desertification

Indexed keywords

CORRELATION; DESERTIFICATION; FRACTAL ANALYSIS; GRADIENT ANALYSIS; KARST; LANDSCAPE STRUCTURE; PATCH DYNAMICS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SHRUBLAND;

ARTICLE; CHINA; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; POACEAE; SOIL; TREE;

CHINA; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; POACEAE; SOIL; TREES;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; GUANGXI ZHUANGZU;

EID: 58149374205     PISSN: 10019332     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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