Divergences of two coupled human and natural systems on the Mongolian Plateau

BioScience

Volumn 65, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 559-570

  Chen, Jiquan ^a,c   John, Ranjeet ^c   Zhang, Yaoqi ^a,b   Shao, Changliang ^c   Brown, Daniel G ^e   Batkhishig, Ochirbat ^f   Amarjargal, Amartuvshin ^g   Ouyang, Zutao ^c   Dong, Gang ^h   Wang, Dan ^a   Qi, Jiaguo ^c,d  

^a NANJING UNIVERSITY OF INFORMATION SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b AUBURN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^f INSTITUTE OF CHEMISTRY AND CHEMICAL TECHNOLOGY   (Mongolia)

^g University of the Humanities   (Mongolia)

^h SHANXI UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

CHANS; climatic change; livestock; Mongolia; socioeconomic

Indexed keywords

EID: 84930405697     PISSN: 00063568     EISSN: 15253244     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/biosci/biv050     Document Type: Article

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