Ecoregional differences in late-20th-century land-use and land-cover change in the U.S. northern great plains

Great Plains Research

Volumn 21, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 231-243

  Auch, Roger F ^a   Sayler, Kristi L ^a   Napton, Darrell E ^b   Taylor, Janis L ^a   Brooks, Mark S ^a  

^a U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^b SOUTH DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Land cover; Land use change; Land use tension; Northern great plains; Weather variability

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL LAND; CLIMATE CYCLE; CLIMATE VARIATION; ECOREGION; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; GRASSLAND; HUMAN ACTIVITY; IMPOUNDMENT; LAND COVER; LAND USE CHANGE; SHRUBLAND; TWENTIETH CENTURY; WETLAND;

GREAT PLAINS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 80055094243     PISSN: 10525165     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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