Driving forces behind land use and cover change in the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau: A case study of the source region of the Yellow River, Qinghai Province, China

Environmental Earth Sciences

Volumn 59, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 793-801

  Song, Xiang ^a,b   Yang, Guoxian ^a,c   Yan, Changzhen ^a   Duan, Hanchen ^a,b   Liu, Guangyue ^a,b   Zhu, Yanling ^a,b  

^a Chinese Academy of Sciences   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^c YELLOW RIVER ENGINEERING CONSULTING CO   (China)

Author keywords

Driving forces; Land use and cover change; Source region of the Yellow River

Indexed keywords

CLIMATIC CHANGES; DRIVING FORCES; ECO-ENVIRONMENTS; ECOLOGICAL ENVIRONMENTS; GIS SOFTWARE; GLOBAL CHANGE; GOVERNMENT POLICY; HUMAN ACTIVITIES; INSECT DAMAGE; LAND USE AND COVER CHANGE; LANDSAT IMAGES; NATIONAL PROJECTS; NATURAL CONDITIONS; QINGHAI PROVINCE; QINGHAI-TIBETAN PLATEAU; SOURCE REGION; YELLOW RIVER;

ANIMALS; CLIMATOLOGY; FORESTRY; GLOBAL WARMING; RESEARCH; RIVERS; TRANSPORT PROPERTIES;

LAND USE;

CLIMATE CHANGE; DATABASE; DESERTIFICATION; GIS; GLOBAL WARMING; GOVERNANCE APPROACH; HUMAN ACTIVITY; LAND COVER; LAND USE CHANGE; LANDSAT; OVERGRAZING; POLICY STRATEGY; RESTORATION ECOLOGY; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SOFTWARE;

CHINA; QINGHAI-XIZANG PLATEAU; YELLOW RIVER;

ANIMALIA; HEXAPODA;

EID: 77955166593     PISSN: 18666280     EISSN: 18666299     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12665-009-0075-8     Document Type: Article

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