Syndromic city illnesses diagnosis and urban ecosystem health assessment

Shengtai Xuebao/ Acta Ecologica Sinica

Volumn 28, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 1736-1747

  Yu, Ya Juan ^a   Guo, Huai Cheng ^a   Liu, Yong ^a   Jiang, Yu Mei ^a   Li, Yan Qiu ^a   Huang, Kai ^a  

^a PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Beijing City; City illnesses; Urban ecosystem health; Weighted Euclidean distancemodel

Indexed keywords

EID: 70350739993     PISSN: 10000933     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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