The impacts of weather and conservation programs on vegetation dynamics in China's Loess Plateau

Land

Volumn 2, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 573-594

  Yan, Dong ^a   de Beurs, Kirsten M ^a   Fan, Jianrong ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

^b INSTITUTE OF MOUNTAIN HAZARDS AND ENVIRONMENT   (China)

Author keywords

Conservation programs; MODIS; The Loess Plateau; Weather change

Indexed keywords

EID: 84942245507     PISSN: None     EISSN: 2073445X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/land2040573     Document Type: Article

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