An integrated systems approach to plateau ecosystem management—a scientific application in Qinghai and Tibet plateau

Information Systems Frontiers

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 337-350

  Liu, Fang ^a   Bi, Zhuming ^b   Xu, Eric L ^c   Ga, Qin ^a   Yang, Quanyu ^a   Yang, Yingzhong ^a   Ma, Lan ^a   Wuren, Tana ^a   Ge, Rili ^a  

^a QINGHAI UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b INDIANA UNIVERSITY PURDUE UNIVERSITY FORT WAYNE   (United States)

^c Columbia University ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Ecosystem; Enterprise Systems; Genetic Cloning; Genetic Expression; Hypoxia Adaptation; Industrial Information Integration Engineering (IIIE); Internet of Things (IoT); Medical Informatics; Signal Transducer and Activator of Transcription 3

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL ROBOTS; CLONE CELLS; DATA ACQUISITION; DECISION MAKING; ECOSYSTEMS; ENTERPRISE RESOURCE PLANNING; GLOBAL WARMING; INFORMATION USE; INTEGRATED CONTROL; INTERNET OF THINGS; MEDICAL INFORMATICS; MEDICAL INFORMATION SYSTEMS; PROTEINS; PROTEOMICS; TISSUE; TRANSDUCERS; WATER POLLUTION;

ENTERPRISE SYSTEM; GENETIC EXPRESSIONS; HYPOXIA ADAPTATION; INFORMATION INTEGRATION; INTERNET OF THINGS (IOT); SIGNAL TRANSDUCERS;

INFORMATION MANAGEMENT;

EID: 84925468155     PISSN: 13873326     EISSN: 15729419     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10796-012-9406-5     Document Type: Article

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