Redundancy and deficiency of vegetation in a typical region of the Loess Plateau

Shengtai Xuebao/ Acta Ecologica Sinica

Volumn 27, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 989-996

  Suo, An Ning ^a,b   Xiong, Ying ^a   Xiong, You Cai ^a   Ge, Jian Ping ^a  

^a BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b National Marine Environmental Monitoring Centre   (China)

Author keywords

Jinghe river basin; Potential vegetation index; The loess plateau; Vegetation redundant deficient index

Indexed keywords

EID: 79957531877     PISSN: 10000933     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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