Identifying local-scale wilderness for on-ground conservation actions within a global biodiversity hotspot

Scientific Reports

Volumn 6, Issue , 2016, Pages

  Lin, Shiwei ^a   Wu, Ruidong ^a   Hua, Chaolang ^b   Ma, Jianzhong ^c   Wang, Wenli ^a   Yang, Feiling ^a   Wang, Junjun ^a  

^a YUNNAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b Yunnan Institute of Forest Inventory and Planning   (China)

^c Forestry Research Institute of Yunnan   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; CHINA; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COLD STRESS; CONIFER; FOREST; HUMAN; POPULATION DENSITY; RIVER; SHRUB; TOPOGRAPHY; VEGETATION; WILDERNESS; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; HUMAN ACTIVITIES; PROCEDURES;

BIODIVERSITY; CHINA; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; HUMAN ACTIVITIES; HUMANS; POPULATION DENSITY; WILDERNESS;

EID: 84975286200     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep25898     Document Type: Article

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