Land-cover effects on red soil rehabilitation in China: A meta-analysis

Progress in Physical Geography

Volumn 32, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 491-502

  Lü, Yihe ^a   Chen, Liding ^a   Fu, Bojie ^a  

^a RESEARCH CENTER FOR ECO ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

Ecological rehabilitation; Land cover; Meta analysis; Non linearity; Soil quality; Spatiotemporal differentiation

Indexed keywords

BROAD-LEAVED FOREST; CONIFEROUS FOREST; DECISION MAKING; EXPLOITATION; LAND COVER; LAND USE CHANGE; META-ANALYSIS; ORGANIC CARBON; RED SOIL; SOIL DEGRADATION; SOIL ORGANIC MATTER; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; TREND ANALYSIS;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST;

EID: 67649342656     PISSN: 03091333     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0309133308098942     Document Type: Article

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