Assessment of ecosystem services of the wetlands in the Ili River Delta, Kazakhstan

Environmental Earth Sciences

Volumn 76, Issue 1, 2017, Pages

  Thevs, Niels ^a,b   Beckmann, Volker ^b   Akimalieva, Altyn ^b   Köbbing, Jan Felix ^b   Nurtazin, Sabir ^c   Hirschelmann, Sophie ^d   Piechottka, Telsche ^b   Salmurzauli, Ruslan ^c   Baibagysov, Azim ^c  

^a World Agroforestry Center   (Kyrgyzstan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GREIFSWALD   (Germany)

^c AL FARABI KAZAKH NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Kazakhstan)

^d Michael Succow Foundation   (Germany)

Author keywords

Biomass; Livestock; Phragmites australis; Raw material; Remote sensing; Tourism

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURE; BIOMASS; ECOLOGY; LAKES; RAW MATERIALS; REMOTE SENSING; RIVERS; VEGETATION; WATERSHEDS; WETLANDS;

ECOSYSTEM SERVICES; LIVESTOCK; LIVESTOCK GRAZING; NATURAL ECOSYSTEM; PHRAGMITES AUSTRALIS; SATELLITE IMAGES; TOURISM; TRANS-BOUNDARY RIVERS;

ECOSYSTEMS;

BIOMASS; ECOSYSTEM SERVICE; ECOTOURISM; FISH; GRASS; LIVESTOCK; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; RAPIDEYE; REEDBED; REMOTE SENSING; RIVER BASIN; RUNOFF; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SPAWNING GROUND; SUBMERGED VEGETATION; TOURISM; WETLAND;

ALMATY; ARAL SEA; CHINA; KAZAKHSTAN; LAKE BALKHASH; RUSSIAN FEDERATION;

PHRAGMITES AUSTRALIS;

EID: 85007062044     PISSN: 18666280     EISSN: 18666299     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12665-016-6346-2     Document Type: Article

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