Using Remote Sensing and GIS Technologies to Estimate Grass Yield and Livestock Carrying Capacity of Alpine Grasslands in Golog Prefecture, China

Pedosphere

Volumn 20, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 342-351

  YU, Long ^a,b   ZHOU, Li ^a   LIU, Wei ^a   ZHOU, Hua Kun ^a  

^a NORTHWEST INSTITUTE OF PLATEAU BIOLOGY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

grass production; grassland degradation; MODIS production; overgrazing rate; restoration

Indexed keywords

ABOVEGROUND BIOMASS; DECISION MAKING; GIS; GRASS; GRASSLAND; LIVESTOCK; MODIS; NDVI; OVERGRAZING; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; REMOTE SENSING; RESTORATION ECOLOGY; SATELLITE DATA; SHEEP; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; YIELD RESPONSE;

CHINA;

OVIS ARIES;

EID: 77953307566     PISSN: 10020160     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1002-0160(10)60023-9     Document Type: Article

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