Determining the effect of the land consolidation project on the cropland ecosystem based on the ecological flow method

Shengtai Xuebao

Volumn 35, Issue 23, 2015, Pages 7669-7681

  Guo, Bei Bei ^a   Jin, Xiao Bin ^a   Lin, Yi Nan ^a   Yang, Xu Hong ^a   Zhou, Yin Kang ^a  

^a NANJING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Cropland ecosystem; Ecological flow; Emergy; Exergy; Fengxiang County; Land consolidation

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTION; CHAOTIC DYNAMICS; CONSOLIDATION; EMERGY; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; EXERGY; FLOW PATTERN; NATURAL RESOURCE; PROJECT MANAGEMENT; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SUSTAINABILITY;

CHINA; FENGXIAN; SHAANXI; SHANGHAI;

EID: 84979928312     PISSN: 10000933     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5846/stxb201405110964     Document Type: Article

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