Quantitative assessment of the individual contribution of climate and human factors to desertification in northwest China using net primary productivity as an indicator

Ecological Indicators

Volumn 48, Issue , 2015, Pages 560-569

  Zhou, Wei ^a   Gang, Chengcheng ^b   Zhou, Fuchun ^a   Li, Jianlong ^b   Dong, Xiaogang ^c   Zhao, Chengzhang ^c  

^a CHONGQING JIAOTONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b NANJING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c NORTHWEST NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Climate variation; Human intervention; Land degradation; Northwest China; Quantitative assessment

Indexed keywords

ECOSYSTEMS; EXPANSION; HUMAN ENGINEERING; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PHYTOPLANKTON;

CLIMATE VARIATION; HUMAN INTERVENTION; LAND DEGRADATION; NORTHWEST CHINA; QUANTITATIVE ASSESSMENTS;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

CLIMATE CHANGE; DESERTIFICATION; ENVIRONMENTAL INDICATOR; HUMAN ACTIVITY; NATURE-SOCIETY RELATIONS; NET PRIMARY PRODUCTION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS;

CHINA;

EID: 84907735421     PISSN: 1470160X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolind.2014.08.043     Document Type: Article

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