Prevalent vegetation growth enhancement in urban environment

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 113, Issue 22, 2016, Pages 6313-6318

  Zhao, Shuqing ^a   Liu, Shuguang ^b   Zhou, Decheng ^a  

^a PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b SOUTH DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Direct impact; Indirect impact; Urban rural Gradients; Urbanization; Vegetation growth

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CARBON STORAGE; CHINA; CLIMATE CHANGE; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; CROP PRODUCTION; PLANT GROWTH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TREE GROWTH; URBAN AREA; URBANIZATION; VEGETATION; CITY; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; HEAT; HUMAN; PLANT DEVELOPMENT; THEORETICAL MODEL;

CHINA; CITIES; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENT; HOT TEMPERATURE; HUMANS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PLANT DEVELOPMENT; URBANIZATION;

EID: 84971542040     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1602312113     Document Type: Article

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