Changes in Water Birds Habitat Suitability Following Wetland Restoration in the Yellow River Delta, China

Clean - Soil, Air, Water

Volumn 40, Issue 10, 2012, Pages 1076-1084

  Hua, Yanyan ^a   Cui, Baoshan ^a   He, Wenjie ^a  

^a BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Ecosystem restoration; Hydrological process; Modeling; Wetland characteristics

Indexed keywords

BIRD; CARTOGRAPHY; HABITAT CONSERVATION; HABITAT RESTORATION; MODELING; MULTICRITERIA ANALYSIS; RESTORATION ECOLOGY; WETLAND;

CHINA; SHANDONG; YELLOW RIVER DELTA;

EID: 84867848350     PISSN: 18630650     EISSN: 18630669     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/clen.201200064     Document Type: Article

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