Impacts of grassland vegetation cover on the active-layer thermal regime, northeast Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, China

Permafrost and Periglacial Processes

Volumn 21, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 335-344

  Wang, Genxu ^a,b   Liu, Lin'an ^a   Liu, Guangsheng ^a   Hu, Hongchang ^b   Li, Taibin ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF MOUNTAIN HAZARDS AND ENVIRONMENT   (China)

^b LANZHOU UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Climate change impact; Permafrost; Soil thermal properties; Vegetation cover change

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE LAYER; CLIMATE CHANGE; DIFFUSIVITY; FROZEN GROUND; GRASSLAND; PATTERNED GROUND; PERIGLACIAL ENVIRONMENT; PERIGLACIAL PROCESS; PERMAFROST; THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY; THERMAL REGIME; TUNDRA; VEGETATION COVER; VEGETATION DYNAMICS;

CHINA; QINGHAI-XIZANG PLATEAU;

EID: 78650704827     PISSN: 10456740     EISSN: 10991530     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ppp.699     Document Type: Article

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