Potential plant species distribution in the Yellow River Delta under the influence of groundwater level and soil salinity

Ecohydrology

Volumn 4, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 744-756

  Fan, Xiaomei ^a,b   Pedroli, Bas ^c   Liu, Gaohuan ^b   Liu, Hongguang ^b   Song, Chuangye ^b   Shu, Longcang ^d  

^a NANJING UNIVERSITY OF INFORMATION SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF GEOGRAPHIC SCIENCES AND NATURAL RESOURCES RESEARCH   (China)

^c WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^d HOHAI UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Degradation; Detrended canonical correspondence analysis; Fragmentation; General linear model; Groundwater dependent ecosystem; Spatial analysis; Visual MODFLOW

Indexed keywords

DETRENDED CANONICAL CORRESPONDENCE ANALYSIS; FRAGMENTATION; GENERAL LINEAR MODEL; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; VISUAL MODFLOW;

DEGRADATION; GEOLOGIC MODELS; GROUNDWATER; GROUNDWATER RESOURCES; SALINITY MEASUREMENT; SOILS; THREE DIMENSIONAL; VEGETATION;

POPULATION DISTRIBUTION;

CANONICAL ANALYSIS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CORRESPONDENCE ANALYSIS; ENVIRONMENTAL DEGRADATION; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION; GROUNDWATER; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; NUMERICAL MODEL; PLANT; SALINITY; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; VEGETATION TYPE; WATER TABLE;

CHINA; SHANDONG; YELLOW RIVER DELTA;

EID: 81855185642     PISSN: 19360584     EISSN: 19360592     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/eco.164     Document Type: Article

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