Spatio-Temporal Variability of Aquatic Vegetation in Taihu Lake over the Past 30 Years

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 6, 2013, Pages

  Zhao, Dehua ^a   Lv, Meiting ^a   Jiang, Hao ^a   Cai, Ying ^a   Xu, Delin ^a   An, Shuqing ^a  

^a NANJING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL EQUIPMENT; ARTICLE; BAY; CHINA; CONTROLLED STUDY; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; IMAGE ANALYSIS; LAKE ECOSYSTEM; MACROPHYTE; NONHUMAN; REMOTE SENSING; SEASONAL VARIATION; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; VALIDATION STUDY; VEGETATION DYNAMICS; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; LAKE; PLANT; PROCEDURES;

CHINA; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; LAKES; PLANTS; REMOTE SENSING TECHNOLOGY;

EID: 84879175142     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0066365     Document Type: Article

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