Hydrogeomorphic Ecosystem Responses to Natural and Anthropogenic Changes in the Loess Plateau of China

Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences

Volumn 45, Issue , 2017, Pages 223-243

  Fu, Bojie ^a   Wang, Shuai ^b   Liu, Yu ^c   Liu, Jianbo ^a,d   Liang, Wei ^a   Miao, Chiyuan ^b  

^a RESEARCH CENTER FOR ECO ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES   (China)

^b BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

Climate change; Ecological restoration; Sediment reduction; Soil desiccation; Soil erosion

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; ECOLOGY; EROSION; LANDFORMS; RECONSTRUCTION (STRUCTURAL); RESTORATION; SEDIMENTS; SOIL CONSERVATION; SOILS; VEGETATION; WATER CONSERVATION;

ECOLOGICAL RESTORATION; GRAIN FOR GREEN PROJECTS; LOESS PLATEAU OF CHINAS; SEDIMENT REDUCTION; SOCIO-ECOLOGICAL SYSTEMS; SOIL AND WATER CONSERVATION; SOIL DESICCATIONS; SOIL EROSION;

ECOSYSTEMS;

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; CLIMATE CHANGE; ECOSYSTEM SERVICE; RESTORATION ECOLOGY; RUNOFF; SOIL ANALYSIS; SOIL CONSERVATION; SOIL EROSION; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT;

CHINA; LOESS PLATEAU; YELLOW RIVER;

EID: 85029167042     PISSN: 00846597     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev-earth-063016-020552     Document Type: Review

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