Recent land degradation and improvement in China

Ambio

Volumn 38, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 150-156

  Bai, Zhanguo ^a   Dent, David ^a  

^a ISRIC WORLD SOIL INFORMATION   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RAIN;

ARABLE LAND; ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT; ECONOMIC IMPACT; ECOSYSTEM FUNCTION; ENERGY EFFICIENCY; ENVIRONMENTAL ECONOMICS; ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY; LAND DEGRADATION; LAND MANAGEMENT; NDVI; POVERTY; REMOTE SENSING; RURAL POPULATION;

ARTICLE; BIOMASS; CHINA; CLIMATE; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION;

BIOMASS; CHINA; CLIMATE; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; RAIN;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST;

EID: 67649641650     PISSN: 00447447     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1579/0044-7447-38.3.150     Document Type: Article

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39. This work is part of the GEF/UNEP,FAO project Land Degradation Assessment in Drylands. We thank C. J. Tucker, J. E. Pinzon, and M. E. Brown for access to the GIMMS datasets; J. Grieser and T. Fuchs for providing the VASClimO precipitation and GPCC data; and M. Salmon for providing the CRU climatic data. We are indebted to M. E. Schacpman for concept development and A. Tengburg, F. Nachtergaele, R. Biancalani, S. Prince, A. Anayamba, and P. Vlek for critical review. We thank P. Tempel and J. Huting for assistance in data handling and G. Heuvelink for help with statistics.
40. First submitted 27 December 2007. Accepted for publication 4 September 2008.