Degradation of cultivated bench terraces in the Three Gorges Area: Field mapping and data mining

Ecological Indicators

Volumn 34, Issue , 2013, Pages 478-493

  Schönbrodt Stitt, Sarah ^a   Behrens, Thorsten ^a   Schmidt, Karsten ^a   Shi, Xuezheng ^b   Scholten, Thomas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^b INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

Bench terraces; Data mining; Distance transforms; Terrace degradation; Terrace mapping; Three Georges Area

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECTS; ANTHROPOGENIC INFLUENCE; BENCH TERRACES; DISTANCE TRANSFORMS; DISTURBED ENVIRONMENTS; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; SUSTAINABLE LAND MANAGEMENTS; THREE GEORGES AREA;

CATCHMENTS; CULTIVATION; DECISION TREES; ECONOMICS; EROSION; GESTURE RECOGNITION; LAND RECLAMATION; LAND USE; MAPPING; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RUNOFF; SOIL CONSERVATION;

DATA MINING;

AGRICULTURAL CHANGE; ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; CATCHMENT; DATA MINING; DISTURBANCE; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; ENVIRONMENTAL DEGRADATION; GEOLOGICAL MAPPING; HUMAN ACTIVITY; LAND RECLAMATION; LAND USE CHANGE; MAPPING; NATURE-SOCIETY RELATIONS; SOIL CONSERVATION; SOIL EROSION; TERRACE;

CHINA; HUNAN; THREE GORGES; XIANGXI;

EID: 84880273113     PISSN: 1470160X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolind.2013.06.010     Document Type: Article

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