Rural settlement expansion and paddy soil loss across an ex-urbanizing watershed in eastern coastal China during market transition

Regional Environmental Change

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 651-662

  Su, Shiliang ^a   Zhang, Qi ^a   Zhang, Zhonghao ^a   Zhi, Junjun ^a   Wu, Jiaping ^a  

^a ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

China; Ex urbanization; Paddy soil; Rural settlement expansion; Watershed

Indexed keywords

EID: 80051924539     PISSN: 14363798     EISSN: 1436378X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10113-010-0197-2     Document Type: Article

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