Revegetation in China's Loess Plateau is approaching sustainable water resource limits

Nature Climate Change

Volumn 6, Issue 11, 2016, Pages 1019-1022

  Feng, Xiaoming ^a,b   Fu, Bojie ^a,b   Piao, Shilong ^c,d   Wang, Shuai ^a,b   Ciais, Philippe ^e   Zeng, Zhenzhong ^c   Lü, Yihe ^a,d   Zeng, Yuan ^d   Li, Yue ^c   Jiang, Xiaohui ^f   Wu, Bingfang ^d  

^a RESEARCH CENTER FOR ECO ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES   (China)

^b JOINT CENTER FOR GLOBAL CHANGE STUDIES   (China)

^c PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^e LABORATOIRE DES SCIENCES DU CLIMAT ET DE L ENVIRONNEMENT   (France)

^f YELLOW RIVER INSTITUTE OF HYDRAULIC RESEARCH   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; BIOENERGY; CARBON SEQUESTRATION; CATCHMENT; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; RESOURCE SCARCITY; REVEGETATION; RUNOFF; SEMIARID REGION; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT; WATER DEMAND; WATER RESOURCE;

CHINA; LOESS PLATEAU;

EID: 84992666000     PISSN: 1758678X     EISSN: 17586798     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nclimate3092     Document Type: Article

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