An overview of non-conventional water resource utilization technologies for biological sand control in Xinjiang, northwest China

Environmental Earth Sciences

Volumn 73, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 873-885

  Li, Shengyu ^a   Tang, Qingliang ^a,b   Lei, Jiaqiang ^a   Xu, Xinwen ^a   Jiang, Jin ^a   Wang, Yongdong ^a  

^a XINJIANG INSTITUTE OF ECOLOGY AND GEOGRAPHY   (China)

^b XINJIANG AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Biological sand control; Combating desertification; Non conventional water resources; Technology

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL ROBOTS; CLIMATOLOGY; ECOLOGY; FLOODS; IRRIGATION; POPULATION STATISTICS; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); REFORESTATION; SAND; WATER CONSERVATION;

COMBATING DESERTIFICATION; CONVENTIONAL WATER RESOURCES; ECOLOGICAL PROPERTY; IRRIGATION SYSTEMS; LAND DESERTIFICATION; NON-CONVENTIONAL WATER RESOURCES; SAND CONTROL; SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT;

WATER RESOURCES;

EID: 84920705803     PISSN: 18666280     EISSN: 18666299     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12665-014-3443-y     Document Type: Article

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