Land use optimization at small watershed scale on the Loess Plateau

Journal of Geographical Sciences

Volumn 19, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 577-586

  Xu, Yong ^a   Tang, Qing ^a,b  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOGRAPHIC SCIENCES AND NATURAL RESOURCES RESEARCH   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

Benefits; Land use change; Loess Plateau; Optimization; Yangou watershed

Indexed keywords

EID: 70350370450     PISSN: 1009637X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11442-009-0577-z     Document Type: Article

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