Wetland changes and their responses to climate change in the "Three-River Headwaters" region of China since the 1990s

Energies

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 2515-2534

  Tong, Laga ^a,b   Xu, Xinliang ^a   Fu, Ying ^a,b   Li, Shuang ^a,b  

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

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

"Three River Headwaters" (THR) region; Climate change; Remote sensing (RS); Trend analysis; Wetland

Indexed keywords

ARID REGIONS; BIODIVERSITY; DECISION MAKING; LAKES; REMOTE SENSING; RESERVOIRS (WATER); RIVERS; WATERSHEDS; WETLANDS;

CORRELATION ANALYSIS; INTERANNUAL VARIATION; METEOROLOGICAL FACTORS; REMOTE SENSING IMAGES; SCIENTIFIC REFERENCES; THREE-RIVER HEADWATERS (THR) REGION; TREND ANALYSIS; YANGTZE RIVER BASIN;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

EID: 84899148133     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19961073     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/en7042515     Document Type: Article

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