Wetland degradation: Its driving forces and environmental impacts in the Sanjiang Plain, China

Environmental Management

Volumn 54, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 255-271

  Song, Kaishan ^a   Wang, Zongming ^a   Du, Jia ^a   Liu, Lei ^a   Zeng, Lihong ^a   Ren, Chunying ^a  

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

Author keywords

GIS; Land use land cover change; Remote sensing; Sanjiang Plain; Wetlands

Indexed keywords

CULTIVATION; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; REMOTE SENSING;

AGRICULTURAL CULTIVATION; AGRICULTURAL PRACTICES; ENVIRONMENTAL CONSEQUENCES; INSTITUTIONAL STRATEGY; LAND USE/LAND COVER CHANGE; SANJIANG PLAIN; SOIL CARBON EMISSIONS; TEMPERATURE INCREASE;

WETLANDS;

CARBON;

AGRICULTURAL LAND; ARTICLE; ATMOSPHERIC DISPERSION; CARBON CYCLING; CHINA; CROPLAND; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPLOITATION; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; ENVIRONMENTAL TEMPERATURE; FOREST; GOVERNMENT REGULATION; GRASSLAND; LAND USE; POPULATION; SATELLITE IMAGERY; WETLAND; WETLAND DEGRADATION;

AGRICULTURE; CHINA; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; ENVIRONMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; POPULATION GROWTH; SATELLITE IMAGERY; WETLANDS;

EID: 84905580855     PISSN: 0364152X     EISSN: 14321009     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00267-014-0278-y     Document Type: Article

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