Effects of land use/land cover change (LUCC) on habitats of tibetan wild donkey in aerjin mountain national nature reserve

Chinese Journal of Ecology

Volumn 33, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 141-148

  Su, Xu Kun ^a   Dong, Shi Kui ^a   Liu, Shi Liang ^a   Liu, Ying Hui ^a   Shi, Jian Bin ^a   Wu, Yu ^a   Zhang, Xiang ^b   Xu, Dong Hua ^b  

^a BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b Bayingolin Mongol Autonomous Prefecture Aerjin Mountain National Nature Reserve Management Headquarters   (China)

Author keywords

Aerjin Mountain National Nature Reserve; Habitat; Land use land cover change (LUCC); Niche model; Tibetan wild donkey (Asinus kiang)

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL HIERARCHY PROCESS; GIS; HABITAT USE; HORSE; LAND COVER; LAND USE CHANGE; NICHE; SURVIVAL;

CHINA; QINGHAI-XIZANG PLATEAU;

EQUUS ASINUS; EQUUS KIANG;

EID: 84923693792     PISSN: 10004890     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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