Predicting the wetland distributions under climate warming in the Great Xing'an Mountains, northeastern China

Ecological Research

Volumn 26, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 605-613

  Liu, Hongjuan ^a,b   Bu, Rencang ^b   Liu, Jintong ^a   Leng, Wenfang ^c   Hu, Yuanman ^b   Yang, Libing ^d   Liu, Huitao ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF APPLIED ECOLOGY   (China)

^c QINHUANGDAO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^d HEBEI GEO UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Great Xing'an Mountains; Potential distribution; Random Forest; Wetland

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; CLIMATE CHANGE; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; HYDROLOGICAL CHANGE; LAND DEGRADATION; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; TOPOGRAPHIC MAPPING; WETLAND;

CHINA; DA HINGGAN MOUNTAINS;

EID: 79955890014     PISSN: 09123814     EISSN: 14401703     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11284-011-0819-2     Document Type: Article

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