Habitat changes for breeding waterbirds in Yancheng National Nature Reserve, China: A remote sensing study

Wetlands

Volumn 30, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 879-888

  Liu, Chunyue ^a,b   Jiang, Hongxing ^c   Hou, Yunqiu ^c   Zhang, Shuqing ^a   Su, Liying ^d   Li, Xiaofeng ^a   Pan, Xin ^e   Wen, Zhaofei ^a,b  

^a NORTHEAST INSTITUTE OF GEOGRAPHY AND AGRICULTURAL ECOLOGY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^c RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF FORESTRY   (China)

^d INTERNATIONAL CRANE FOUNDATION   (United States)

^e CHANGCHUN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Breeding habitat; Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI); Vegetation coverage

Indexed keywords

AQUACULTURE PRODUCTION; BREEDING POPULATION; BREEDING SITE; COMMUNITY DYNAMICS; ENVIRONMENTAL DISTURBANCE; GPS; HABITAT LOSS; HABITAT QUALITY; INVASIVE SPECIES; LANDSAT THEMATIC MAPPER; NDVI; NEST SITE; PLANT COMMUNITY; POND CULTURE; RANGE EXPANSION; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE DATA; SEABIRD; SUCCESSION; VEGETATION DYNAMICS; WATERFOWL;

CHINA; JIANGSU; YANCHENG NATURE RESERVE;

EID: 80054930546     PISSN: 02775212     EISSN: 19436246     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s13157-010-0070-6     Document Type: Article

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