Effects of land use planning on aboveground vegetation biomass in China

Environmental Earth Sciences

Volumn 73, Issue 10, 2015, Pages 6553-6564

  Sun, Xiaofang ^a   Yue, Tianxiang ^b   Wang, Meng ^a   Fan, Zemeng ^b   Liu, Fengqiao ^c  

^a QUFU NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

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

^c NONE   (China)

Author keywords

Biomass density; Forest age; Land use change; Landscape; Scenarios; Spatial model

Indexed keywords

BIOMASS; FORESTRY; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; VEGETATION;

BIOMASS DENSITY; FOREST AGE; LAND-USE CHANGE; LANDSCAPE; SCENARIOS; SPATIAL MODELING;

LAND USE;

EID: 84939961886     PISSN: 18666280     EISSN: 18666299     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12665-014-3875-4     Document Type: Article

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