Wetlands shrinkage, fragmentation and their links to agriculture in the Muleng-Xingkai Plain, China

Journal of Environmental Management

Volumn 111, Issue , 2012, Pages 120-132

  Song, Kaishan ^a,b   Wang, Zongming ^a   Li, Lin ^b   Tedesco, Lenore ^c   Li, Fang ^d   Jin, Cui ^a   Du, Jia ^a  

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

^b INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Wetlands Institute   (United States)

^d NATIONAL MARINE ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING CENTER   (China)

Author keywords

Fragmentation; Land use cover change; Remote sensing; Wetlands shrinkage

Indexed keywords

FERTILIZER; GROUND WATER;

AGRICULTURAL DEVELOPMENT; CLIMATE CONDITIONS; CULTIVATION; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; LAND USE CHANGE; LANDSAT; LANDSCAPE STRUCTURE; PATCH SIZE; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SHRINKAGE; TIME SERIES; VEGETATION COVER; WETLAND;

AGRICULTURE; ARTICLE; CHINA; CLIMATE CHANGE; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; FERTILIZER APPLICATION; FRAGMENTATION REACTION; HARVESTING; LANDSCAPE; SOCIOECONOMICS; WETLAND; WETLAND FRAGMENTATION;

CHINA; HEILONGJIANG; XINGKAI LAKE;

EID: 84864397051     PISSN: 03014797     EISSN: 10958630     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jenvman.2012.06.038     Document Type: Article

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