Emergy-based health assessment of baiyangdian watershed ecosystem in temporal and spatial scales

Procedia Environmental Sciences

Volumn 2, Issue , 2010, Pages 359-371

  Zeng, Rong ^a   Zhao, Yanwei ^a   Yang, Zhifeng ^a  

^a BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Baiyangdian Watershed; Ecosystem; emergy analysis; health assessment

Indexed keywords

BAIYANGDIAN WATERSHED; COMPREHENSIVE ASSESSMENT; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORKS; DRYING-UP; ECONOMIC SYSTEM; ECOSYSTEM HEALTH; ECOSYSTEM HEALTH INDEX; ECOSYSTEM ORGANIZATION; ECOSYSTEM SERVICES; EMERGY ANALYSIS; FLOW DIAGRAM; HEALTH ASSESSMENT; HEALTH ASSESSMENTS; HEALTH STATUS; INSTREAM FLOWS; INTEGRATED ANALYSIS; ORGANIZATION STRUCTURES; SERVICE FUNCTIONS; SPATIAL SCALE; TEMPORAL SCALE; TIME-PERIODS;

COMPETITION; HEALTH; INFORMATION SCIENCE; LAKES; LANDFORMS; RATING; RIVERS; WATERSHEDS;

ECOSYSTEMS;

EID: 79951807200     PISSN: None     EISSN: 18780296     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1016/j.proenv.2010.10.041     Document Type: Conference Paper

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