Exploring spatio-temporal variations of habitat loss and its causal factors in the Shenzhen River cross-border watershed

Applied Geography

Volumn 39, Issue , 2013, Pages 140-150

  Xie, Yu Jing ^a   Ng, Cho Nam ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Ecosystem services; Geographically weighted regression; Habitat loss; Human factors; Spatio temporal variation

Indexed keywords

ECOSYSTEM SERVICE; GEOGRAPHICAL VARIATION; HABITAT CONSERVATION; HABITAT LOSS; HUMAN ACTIVITY; LAND COVER; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SPATIAL VARIATION; TEMPORAL VARIATION; WATERSHED;

CHINA; GUANGDONG; SHENZHEN;

EID: 84873445811     PISSN: 01436228     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.apgeog.2013.01.001     Document Type: Article

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