Effect of land use and land cover change on soil erosion and the spatio-temporal variation in Liupan Mountain Region, southern Ningxia, China

Frontiers of Environmental Science and Engineering in China

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 564-572

  Quan, Bin ^a,b   Romkens M J M ^c   Li, Rui ^b   Wang, Fang ^a,d   Chen, Jie ^a  

^a HUNAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF SOIL AND WATER CONSERVATION   (China)

^c USDA ARS NATIONAL SEDIMENTATION LABORATORY   (United States)

^d BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

geographical information system; land use land cover change; Liupan Mountain Region; remote sensing; soil erosion

Indexed keywords

EID: 82655181883     PISSN: 16737415     EISSN: 16737520     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11783-011-0348-9     Document Type: Article

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