Woody vegetation composition and structure in Peri-urban Chongming Island, China

Environmental Management

Volumn 51, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 999-1011

  Zhao, Min ^a   Escobedo, Francisco J ^b   Wang, Ruijing ^a   Zhou, Qiaolan ^a   Lin, Wenpeng ^a   Gao, Jun ^a  

^a SHANGHAI NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Air pollution removal; Peri urban forests; Spatial analyses; Sustainability; Urbanization

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC ACTIVITY; PERI-URBAN FORESTS; POLLUTION REMOVAL; QUANTITATIVE METHOD; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; SUSTAINABILITY OBJECTIVES; SUSTAINABLE MANAGEMENT; URBANIZATION;

AIR POLLUTION; CLIMATE CHANGE; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; LAND USE; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT; TROPICS; VEGETATION;

FORESTRY;

COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; PERIURBAN AREA; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; SPECIES RICHNESS; SUSTAINABILITY; URBANIZATION; VEGETATION; WOODY PLANT;

AGRICULTURE; AIR POLLUTION CONTROL; ARTICLE; BREAST HEIGHT; CHINA; CLIMATE CHANGE; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY; FOREST; HUMAN ACTIVITIES; ISLAND (GEOLOGICAL); LAND USE; NONHUMAN; PERI URBAN ISLAND; PLANT HEIGHT; PLANT PARAMETERS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; SPECIES COMPOSITION; TREE COVER; TREE CROWN; TREE DIAMETER; TREE GROWTH; URBANIZATION; VEGETATION; WOODY PLANT;

AGRICULTURE; AIR POLLUTION; BIODIVERSITY; CHINA; CITIES; MODELS, THEORETICAL; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; TREES; URBANIZATION;

AIR POLLUTION; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; FORESTRY; SEASONAL VARIATION; SUSTAINABLE FOREST MANAGEMENT; TROPICS;

CHINA; CHONGMING ISLAND; SHANGHAI;

EID: 84878739323     PISSN: 0364152X     EISSN: 14321009     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00267-013-0025-9     Document Type: Article

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