Multi-scale evaluation of river health in Liao River Basin, China

Frontiers of Environmental Science and Engineering in China

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 227-235

  Xu, Fei ^a   Zhao, Yanwei ^a   Yang, Zhifeng ^a   Zhang, Yuan ^b  

^a BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b CHINESE RESEARCH ACADEMY OF ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

Liao River Basin; multi scale characterization; river health evaluation; set pair analysis

Indexed keywords

EID: 79958070116     PISSN: 16737415     EISSN: 16737520     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11783-010-0219-9     Document Type: Article

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