Emergy-based urban ecosystem health assessments: A case study of Baotou city

Shengtai Xuebao/ Acta Ecologica Sinica

Volumn 28, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 1720-1728

  Liu, Geng Yuan ^a   Yang, Zhi Feng ^a   Chen, Bin ^a   Zhang, Yan ^a   Zhang, Li Xiao ^a  

^a BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Ecosystem health; Emergy analysis; Urban ecosystem

Indexed keywords

EID: 70350549486     PISSN: 10000933     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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