Linking ecosystem services and ecosystem health to ecological risk assessment: A case study of the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei urban agglomeration

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 636, Issue , 2018, Pages 1442-1454

  Kang, Peng ^a,b   Chen, Weiping ^a   Hou, Ying ^a   Li, Yuanzheng ^a  

^a RESEARCH CENTER FOR ECO ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

Comprehensive assessing endpoint; Controlling thresholds; Ecological risk assessment; Ecosystem health; Ecosystem service; Risk hotspots

Indexed keywords

AGGLOMERATION; HEALTH; HEALTH RISKS; LAND USE; RISK ASSESSMENT;

COMPREHENSIVE ASSESSING ENDPOINT; CONTROLLING THRESHOLDS; ECOLOGICAL RISK ASSESSMENT; ECOSYSTEM HEALTH; ECOSYSTEM SERVICES; HOTSPOTS;

ECOSYSTEMS;

AGGLOMERATION; ECOSYSTEM HEALTH; ECOSYSTEM SERVICE; LAND USE PLANNING; RISK ASSESSMENT; THRESHOLD; URBAN ECOSYSTEM; URBANIZATION;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECOLOGICAL RISK ASSESSMENT; ECOSYSTEM HEALTH; ECOSYSTEM RESILIENCE; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL PLANNING; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; URBAN AREA; URBANIZATION; AGRICULTURE; CHINA; ECOLOGY; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; PROCEDURES;

BEIJING [CHINA]; CHINA; HEBEI; TIANJIN;

AGRICULTURE; BEIJING; CHINA; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; ECOLOGY; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; RISK ASSESSMENT; URBANIZATION;

EID: 85046780864     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: 18791026     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2018.04.427     Document Type: Article

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