A hierarchical analysis of ecosystem classification with implementing in two continental ecoregions

• Published in: Environmental Systems Research
• Main Author: Zhang, YanQing
• Other Authors: National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Springer Science and Business Media LLC 2021
• Subjects: Handle The; Tundra
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s40068-021-00243-3; https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1186/s40068-021-00243-3.pdf; https://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s40068-021-00243-3/fulltext.html

Abstract Background The ecosystem classification of land (ECL) has been studied for a couple of decades, from the beginning of the perfect organism system “top-down” approach to a reversed “bottom-up” approach by defining a micro-ecological unit. After comparing two cases of the ecosystem classifica...