The human threat to river ecosystems at the watershed scale: An ecological security assessment of the songhua river basin, Northeast China

Water (Switzerland)

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2017, Pages

  Shen, Yuan ^a,b   Cao, Huiming ^a   Tang, Mingfang ^a   Deng, Hongbing ^a  

^a RESEARCH CENTER FOR ECO ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

Ecological security assessment; Ecological threat index; Human threat; River ecosystem integrity; Songhua River Basin; Watershed scale

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURE; AQUATIC ECOSYSTEMS; CONSERVATION; ECOLOGY; ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT; RIVERS; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; WATER QUALITY; WATERSHEDS;

ECOLOGICAL SECURITY; ECOLOGICAL THREAT INDEX; HUMAN THREAT; RIVER ECOSYSTEM; SONGHUA RIVER BASINS; WATERSHED SCALE;

ECOSYSTEMS;

AGRICULTURAL DEVELOPMENT; ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; CONSTRUCTION; ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT; INDEX METHOD; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RIVER BASIN; RIVER SYSTEM; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; URBANIZATION; WATER QUALITY; WATERSHED;

CHINA; SONGHUA BASIN;

EID: 85015706229     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20734441     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/w9030219     Document Type: Article

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