Is forest restoration in the southwest China Karst promoted mainly by climate change or human-induced factors?

Remote Sensing

Volumn 6, Issue 10, 2014, Pages 9895-9910

  Cai, Hongyan ^a   Yang, Xiaohuan ^a   Wang, Kejing ^b   Xiao, Linlin ^a  

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

^b EAST CHINA NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Climate change; Ecological afforestation project; Forest greening; Out migration; southwest China karst

Indexed keywords

CONSERVATION; ECOLOGY; FORESTRY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; LAND USE; LANDFORMS; RADIOMETERS; REFORESTATION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RESTORATION; SATELLITE IMAGERY; VEGETATION;

CLIMATE STATIONS; ECOLOGICAL AFFORESTATION PROJECT; FOREST GREENING; FOREST RESTORATION; MODERATE RESOLUTION IMAGING SPECTRORADIOMETER; NORMALIZED DIFFERENCE VEGETATION INDEX DATUM; OUT-MIGRATION; SOUTHWEST CHINA;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

CHINA; FORESTS; LAND USE; PLANTS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RESTORATION; SEASONAL VARIATION;

EID: 84923559984     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20724292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/rs6109895     Document Type: Article

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