Temporal and spatial change of stream structure in Yangtze River Delta and its driving forces during 1960s-2010s

Dili Xuebao/Acta Geographica Sinica

Volumn 70, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 819-827

  Han, Longfei ^a   Xu, Youpeng ^a   Yang, Liu ^a   Deng, Xiaojun ^a   Hu, Chunsheng ^a,b   Xu, Guanglai ^a,b  

^a NANJING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b ANHUI NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Spatial and temporal change; Stream structure; Urbanization; Yangtze River Delta

Indexed keywords

DRAINAGE; FLUVIAL GEOMORPHOLOGY; INDEX METHOD; RIVER SYSTEM; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; STREAM; TOPOGRAPHIC MAPPING; TREND ANALYSIS; URBANIZATION;

CHINA; JIANGSU; QINHUAI BASIN; YANGTZE DELTA;

EID: 84937538887     PISSN: 03755444     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.11821/dlxb201505012     Document Type: Article

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