Quantifying changes in multiple ecosystem services during 2000–2012 on the Loess Plateau, China, as a result of climate variability and ecological restoration

Ecological Engineering

Volumn 97, Issue , 2016, Pages 258-271

  Jiang, Chong ^a,b   Wang, Fei ^a,c   Zhang, Haiyan ^d   Dong, Xinling ^e  

^a NORTHWEST A F UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c INSTITUTE OF SOIL AND WATER CONSERVATION   (China)

^d INSTITUTE OF GEOGRAPHIC SCIENCES AND NATURAL RESOURCES RESEARCH   (China)

^e China Institute of Defense Science and Technology   (China)

Author keywords

China; Climate variability; Ecological rehabilitation; Ecosystem service; Loess plateau (LP); Synergy

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATOLOGY; ECOLOGY; EROSION; FORESTRY; LANDFORMS; MERGERS AND ACQUISITIONS; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); RAIN; RESTORATION; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; SEDIMENTS; SOILS; STORMS; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT; VEGETATION; WIND;

CHINA; CLIMATE VARIABILITY; ECOLOGICAL REHABILITATION; ECOSYSTEM SERVICES; LOESS PLATEAU; SYNERGY;

ECOSYSTEMS;

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; BIOMASS; CARBON SEQUESTRATION; CLIMATE CHANGE; CONSERVATION STATUS; ECOREGION; ECOSYSTEM SERVICE; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; FOOD PRODUCTION; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); RESTORATION ECOLOGY; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT; SYNERGISM; VEGETATION COVER; WIND EROSION; WIND VELOCITY;

CHINA; LOESS PLATEAU;

EID: 84991711425     PISSN: 09258574     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecoleng.2016.10.030     Document Type: Article

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