Analysis of forest damage caused by the snow and ice chaos along a transect across southern China in spring 2008

Journal of Geographical Sciences

Volumn 21, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 219-234

  Shao, Quanqin ^a   Huang, Lin ^a   Liu, Jiyuan ^a   Kuang, Wenhui ^a   Li, Jia ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOGRAPHIC SCIENCES AND NATURAL RESOURCES RESEARCH   (China)

Author keywords

damage rate; forest transect; ice snow disaster; wood damage

Indexed keywords

EID: 79957518171     PISSN: 1009637X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11442-011-0840-y     Document Type: Article

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