Ecological benefits assessment and spatial modeling of urban ecosystem for controlling urban sprawl in Eastern Beijing, China

Ecological Complexity

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 153-160

  Yang, Wenrui ^a,b   Li, Feng ^a   Wang, Rusong ^a   Hu, Dan ^a  

^a RESEARCH CENTER FOR ECO ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES   (China)

^b Beijing Municipal Institute of City Planning and Design   (China)

Author keywords

Beijing; Cellular Automata; Complex ecological benefit; Ecosystem services; Urban expansion

Indexed keywords

EID: 79955163871     PISSN: 1476945X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecocom.2011.01.004     Document Type: Article

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