Integrating landscape connectivity into the evaluation of ecosystem services for biodiversity conservation and its implications for landscape planning

Applied Geography

Volumn 42, Issue , 2013, Pages 1-12

  Ng, Cho Nam ^a   Xie, Yu Jing ^a   Yu, Xi Jun ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b SOUTH CHINA INSTITUTE OF ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

Biodiversity conservation; Ecosystem services; Landscape connectivity; Landscape planning; Modeling spatial dynamics; Temporal analysis

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; ECOSYSTEM SERVICE; INTEGRATED APPROACH; LANDSCAPE PLANNING; MODELING; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; TEMPORAL ANALYSIS; WATERSHED;

CHINA; GUANGDONG; HONG KONG; SHENZHEN;

EID: 84878125594     PISSN: 01436228     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.apgeog.2013.04.015     Document Type: Article

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