A review of historical reconstruction methods of land use/land cover

Journal of Geographical Sciences

Volumn 24, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 746-766

  Yang, Yuanyuan ^a,b,c   Zhang, Shuwen ^a,b   Yang, Jiuchun ^b   Chang, Liping ^b   Bu, Kun ^b   Xing, Xiaoshi ^c  

^a JILIN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b NORTHEAST INSTITUTE OF GEOGRAPHY AND AGRICULTURAL ECOLOGY   (China)

^c Center for International Forestry Research   (United States)

Author keywords

historical reconstruction; land cover; land use; review

Indexed keywords

EID: 84900444057     PISSN: 1009637X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11442-014-1117-z     Document Type: Article

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