期刊论文

Qiu, G. Y.

英文

ENVIRONMENTAL GEOLOGY

0943-0105

2009

57

7

1481-1488

10.1007/s00254-008-1425-7

Acknowledgments This study was supported by the National Science Foundation for Distinguished Young Scholars (Project 40425008) and by the Scientific Research Fund of Central South University of Forestry and Technology (Project 07005B). Thanks go to F. Che, X. P. Xue, H. Wang, Y. L. Sun, X. Li, Doctor C. Y. He, and Professor J. Chen, for their advice, to the Forestry Department of Hunan Province for providing forest inventory data of Yongshun County, to the China Meteorological Administration for providing meteorological data, to the National Bureau of Statistics of China for providing socio-economic data, and to the University of Maryland, for providing Landsat data.

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