Land-cover changes of national nature reserves in China

Journal of Geographical Sciences

Volumn 23, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 258-270

  Fan, Zemeng ^a   Zhang, Xuan ^a,b   Li, Jing ^a,b   Yue, Tianxiang ^a   Liu, Jiyuan ^a   Xiang, Bao ^c   Kuang, Wenhui ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOGRAPHIC SCIENCES AND NATURAL RESOURCES RESEARCH   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^c CHINESE RESEARCH ACADEMY OF ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

China; evaluation; land cover changes; national nature reserves

Indexed keywords

EID: 84873256051     PISSN: 1009637X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11442-013-1008-8     Document Type: Article

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