Spatially explicit assessment of ecosystem services in China's Loess Plateau: Patterns, interactions, drivers, and implications

Global and Planetary Change

Volumn 161, Issue , 2018, Pages 41-52

  Jiang, Chong ^a,b,c   Zhang, Haiyan ^d   Zhang, Zhidong ^a  

^a SOUTHERN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c WUHAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

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

Author keywords

China; Climate variability; Ecological restoration; Ecosystem service; Interaction; Loess Plateau

Indexed keywords

CARBON; CLIMATE CHANGE; ECOSYSTEMS; LAND USE; LANDFORMS; RESTORATION; SEDIMENTS; VEGETATION;

CARBON SEQUESTRATION; CHINA; CLIMATE VARIABILITY; CONSTRAINT EFFECTS; CONSTRAINT LINES; ECOLOGICAL RESTORATION; ECOSYSTEM SERVICES; INTERACTION; LOESS PLATEAU; SOIL RETENTION;

SOILS;

CARBON SEQUESTRATION; CLIMATE CHANGE; CORRELATION; ECOSYSTEM MANAGEMENT; ECOSYSTEM SERVICE; ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL DEGRADATION; ENVIRONMENTAL RESTORATION; LAND USE PLANNING; POLICY MAKING; RESTORATION ECOLOGY; SPATIAL ANALYSIS;

CHINA; LOESS PLATEAU; YELLOW RIVER;

EID: 85037341451     PISSN: 09218181     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gloplacha.2017.11.014     Document Type: Article

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