The impacts of climate change and human activities on grassland productivity in Qinghai Province, China

Frontiers of Earth Science

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 93-103

  Yin, Fang ^a,b,c   Deng, Xiangzheng ^b,c   Jin, Qin ^d   Yuan, Yongwei ^e   Zhao, Chunhong ^a,b,c  

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

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^c INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^d CHINA UNIVERSITY OF GEOSCIENCES   (China)

^e HUBEI UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

climate change; grassland degradation; human activities; residual analysis; spatial distribution

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; DEGRADATION; GRASSLAND; HUMAN ACTIVITY; TWENTY FIRST CENTURY; VEGETATION DYNAMICS;

CHINA; QINGHAI; QINGHAI LAKE;

EID: 84894274775     PISSN: 20950195     EISSN: 20950209     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11707-013-0390-y     Document Type: Article

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