Historical landscape dynamics of Inner Mongolia: patterns, drivers, and impacts

Landscape Ecology

Volumn 30, Issue 9, 2015, Pages 1579-1598

  Wu, Jianguo ^a,b,c   Zhang, Qing ^c   Li, Ang ^d   Liang, Cunzhu ^c  

^a BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c INNER MONGOLIA UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d INSTITUTE OF BOTANY   (China)

Author keywords

Grasslands; Inner Mongolia; Land use and land cover change; Landscape history; Mongolian Plateau; Rangeland degradation and sustainability; Socioeconomic drivers

Indexed keywords

AGRARIAN CHANGE; AGRICULTURAL PRACTICE; CIVILIZATION; CLIMATE CHANGE; DEMOGRAPHY; ECOLOGICAL IMPACT; HISTORICAL RECORD; INSTITUTIONAL REFORM; LAND COVER; LAND DEGRADATION; LAND TYPE; LAND USE CHANGE; LANDSCAPE EVOLUTION; REMOTE SENSING; SOCIOECONOMIC IMPACT; SUSTAINABILITY; TECHNOLOGICAL CHANGE; URBANIZATION;

CHINA; MONGOLIAN PLATEAU; NEI MONGGOL;

EID: 84942506304     PISSN: 09212973     EISSN: 15729761     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10980-015-0209-1     Document Type: Article

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