Shrinkage and fragmentation of marshes in the West Songnen Plain, China, from 1954 to 2008 and its possible causes

International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 477-486

  Wang, Zongming ^a   Huang, Ni ^a   Luo, Ling ^a   Li, Xiaoyan ^b   Ren, Chunying ^a   Song, Kaishan ^a   Chen, Jing Ming ^c  

^a NORTHEAST INSTITUTE OF GEOGRAPHY AND AGRICULTURAL ECOLOGY   (China)

^b JILIN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Climatic changes; Land use change; Marsh shrinkage; Remote sensing; The West Songnen Plain

Indexed keywords

AIR TEMPERATURE; CLIMATE CHANGE; FRAGMENTATION; GRASSLAND; LAND USE CHANGE; MARSH; PATCH SIZE; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); REMOTE SENSING; SHRINKAGE; TOPOGRAPHIC MAPPING; WASTELAND;

CHINA; SONGNEN PLAIN;

EID: 79955619446     PISSN: 15698432     EISSN: 1872826X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jag.2010.10.003     Document Type: Article

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