Wetland loss and degradation in the Yellow River Delta, Shandong Province of China

Environmental Earth Sciences

Volumn 67, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 185-188

  Wang, Maojun ^a   Qi, Shanzhong ^b   Zhang, Xuexia ^c  

^a CAPITAL NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b SHANDONG NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c BEIJING FORESTRY UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Area loss and degradation of wetlands; Human activity; The Yellow River Delta; Urbanization development

Indexed keywords

CONTROL MEASURES; HUMAN ACTIVITIES; LANDSCAPE CHANGES; POPULATION GROWTH; SCIENTIFIC KNOWLEDGE; SHANDONG PROVINCE; URBANIZATION DEVELOPMENT; WETLAND AREA; WETLAND LOSS; WETLANDS DEGRADATION; YELLOW RIVER; YELLOW RIVER DELTA;

DEGRADATION; POPULATION STATISTICS;

WETLANDS;

DROUGHT STRESS; GROUNDWATER POLLUTION; HUMAN ACTIVITY; LAND DEGRADATION; LANDSCAPE; NATURE-SOCIETY RELATIONS; URBANIZATION; WETLAND MANAGEMENT;

CHINA; SHANDONG; YELLOW RIVER DELTA;

EID: 84865765688     PISSN: 18666280     EISSN: 18666299     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12665-011-1491-0     Document Type: Article

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