Developing Wetland Restoration Scenarios and Modeling Its Ecological Consequences in the Liaohe River Delta Wetlands, China

Clean - Soil, Air, Water

Volumn 40, Issue 10, 2012, Pages 1185-1196

  Li, Xiaowen ^a   Liang, Chen ^a   Shi, Jianbin ^a  

^a BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Ecological impact; Habitat suitability; Land use scenario; LEDESS model

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; BIODIVERSITY; BIRD; BREEDING POPULATION; CONSERVATION MANAGEMENT; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEM; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; HABITAT RESTORATION; LAND USE PLANNING; MIGRATORY POPULATION; NATURE CONSERVATION; NUMERICAL MODEL; RESTORATION ECOLOGY; SPATIAL PLANNING; WETLAND;

CHINA; LIAOHE DELTA; LIAOHE RIVER; LIAONING;

EID: 84867852255     PISSN: 18630650     EISSN: 18630669     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/clen.201200025     Document Type: Article

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