Land-cover changes and its impacts on ecological variables in the headwaters area of the Yangtze river, China

• Published in: Environmental Monitoring and Assessment
• Main Authors: Wang, Genxu, Wang, Yibo, Kubota, Jumpei
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: 2006
• Subjects: Landscape Evolution; Permafrost; Land Cover; Ecological Functionality; Headwater Area Of The Yangtze River; Science & Technology; Life Sciences & Biomedicine; Environmental Sciences & Ecology; LANDSCAPE; FOREST; CARBON; Environmental Sciences; Bare Rock; permafrost
• Online Access: http://ir.imde.ac.cn/handle/131551/2516; https://doi.org/10.1007/s10661-005-9068-6

Land cover changes affect ecological landscape spatial pattern, and evolving landscape patterns inevitably cause an evolution in ecosystem functionality. Various ecological landscape variables, such as biological productivity (plant biomass and stock capacity), soil nutrients (organic matter and N c...