Shifting farming-pastoral ecotone in China under climate and land use changes

Journal of Arid Environments

Volumn 75, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 298-308

  Liu, Jun hui ^a   Gao, Ji xi ^b   Lv, Shi Hai ^a   Han, Yong wei ^a   Nie, Yi huang ^b  

^a CHINESE RESEARCH ACADEMY OF ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES   (China)

^b NANJING INSTITUTE OF ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

Boundary change; Climatic boundary; Land use boundary

Indexed keywords

AGRARIAN CHANGE; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE EFFECT; ECOTONE; LAND USE CHANGE; PASTORALISM; POLICY REFORM; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); SHIFTING CULTIVATION; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; TWENTIETH CENTURY; VEGETATION COVER;

CHINA;

EID: 78650511938     PISSN: 01401963     EISSN: 1095922X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jaridenv.2010.10.010     Document Type: Article

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