Changes in Soil Properties before and after Wetland Degradation in the Yellow River Delta, China

Clean - Soil, Air, Water

Volumn 40, Issue 10, 2012, Pages 1125-1130

  Huang, Chen ^a   Bai, Junhong ^a   Shao, Hongbo ^b   Gao, Haifeng ^a   Xiao, Rong ^a   Huang, Laibin ^a   Liu, Peipei ^a  

^a BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b YANTAI INSTITUTE OF COASTAL ZONE RESEARCH   (China)

Author keywords

Cluster analysis; Degradation index; Ecology; Ordination analysis; Soil quality index

Indexed keywords

CLUSTER ANALYSIS; ELECTRICAL CONDUCTIVITY; ENVIRONMENTAL DEGRADATION; ORDINATION; SOIL CHEMISTRY; SOIL ORGANIC MATTER; SOIL PROPERTY; SOIL QUALITY; WETLAND;

CHINA; SHANDONG; YELLOW RIVER DELTA;

EID: 84867886432     PISSN: 18630650     EISSN: 18630669     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/clen.201200030     Document Type: Article

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