Rubber plantation and its relationship with topographical factors in the border region of China, Laos and Myanmar

Journal of Geographical Sciences

Volumn 23, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 1019-1040

  Liu, Xiaona ^a,b   Feng, Zhiming ^a   Jiang, Luguang ^a   Li, Peng ^a   Liao, Chenhua ^a,b   Yang, Yanzhao ^a   You, Zhen ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOGRAPHIC SCIENCES AND NATURAL RESOURCES RESEARCH   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

opium poppy substitution planting (OPSP); rubber plantation; spatial temporal analysis; the border region of China, Laos and Myanmar (BRCLM); topographical factors

Indexed keywords

EID: 84884962127     PISSN: 1009637X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11442-013-1060-4     Document Type: Article

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