Rubber plantation expansion related land use change along the Laos-China Border Region

Sustainability (Switzerland)

Volumn 8, Issue 10, 2016, Pages

  Liu, Xiaona ^a   Jiang, Luguang ^b   Feng, Zhiming ^b   Li, Peng ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF PLANT AND ENVIRONMENT PROTECTION   (China)

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

Author keywords

Land use and land cover change (LUCC); Rubber plantation; Spatial temporal pattern; Swidden land; The border region of Laos and China

Indexed keywords

BORDER REGION; GRASSLAND; HUMAN ACTIVITY; LAND COVER; LAND USE CHANGE; LAND USE PLANNING; LANDSAT THEMATIC MAPPER; LANDSCAPE STRUCTURE; PADDY FIELD; PLANTATION; RUBBER; SHIFTING CULTIVATION; SHRUBLAND; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; WOODLAND;

BANGKOK; CENTRAL REGION [THAILAND]; CHINA; KRUNG THEP MAHANAKHON; KUNMING; LAOS; LUANG NAMTHA; THAILAND; YUNNAN;

EID: 84994841532     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20711050     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/su8101011     Document Type: Article

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