How ecological restoration alters ecosystem services: an analysis of vegetation carbon sequestration in the karst area of northwest Guangxi, China

Environmental Earth Sciences

Volumn 74, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 5307-5317

  Zhang, Mingyang ^a   Wang, Kelin ^a   Liu, Huiyu ^b   Zhang, Chunhua ^a   Wang, Jing ^a   Yue, Yuemin ^a   Qi, Xiangkun ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^b NANJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

China s grain to green program; Environmental immigration; Karst region; Temporal spatial characteristics; Vegetation carbon

Indexed keywords

CARBON; CLIMATOLOGY; ECOLOGY; FORESTRY; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; LANDFORMS; REMOTE SENSING; RESTORATION; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; VEGETATION;

ECOLOGICAL RESTORATION; ENVIRONMENTAL IMMIGRATION; GRAIN-TO-GREEN PROGRAMS; KARST REGIONS; NET ECOSYSTEM PRODUCTIVITIES; NET PRIMARY PRODUCTIVITY; ROCKY DESERTIFICATION CONTROLS; TEMPORAL-SPATIAL CHARACTERISTICS;

ECOSYSTEMS;

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; CARBON SEQUESTRATION; ECOSYSTEM SERVICE; ENVIRONMENTAL RESTORATION; GIS; KARST; NET ECOSYSTEM PRODUCTION; NET PRIMARY PRODUCTION; REMOTE SENSING; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; TREND ANALYSIS; VEGETATION DYNAMICS;

CHINA; GUANGXI ZHUANGZU;

EID: 84940724356     PISSN: 18666280     EISSN: 18666299     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12665-015-4542-0     Document Type: Article

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