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Study on the interaction between NDVI profile and the growing status of crops
Daily and ten-day Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) of crops were retrieved from meteorological satellite NOAA AVHRR images. The temporal variations of the NDVI were analyzed during the whole growing ...
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Residents’ attitudes to tourism development in ancient village resorts
Tourism development surely has social, economic and environmental impacts on tourist destinations. The study on resorts residents’ attitudes can help understand the nature of tourism development and the extent...
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Sustainable development of marine economy in China
China is a large marine country. Develo** marine economy is an effective way to solve a series of problems with which man is faced, such as the want of natural resource, space limitation, the environmental d...
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Slope lithologic property, soil moisture condition and revegetation in dry-hot valley of **sha River
The dry-hot valley of the **sha River is one of the typical eco-fragile areas in Southwest China, as well as a focus of revegetation study in the upper and middle reaches of the Changjiang River. Due to its e...
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China’s Current and Future Meteorological Satellite Systems
Meteorological satellites have become an indispensable tool for weather and environment observations in China. These satellites, viewing the Earth from large scale to a global perspective, are integrated compo...
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Spatial patterns of ecological carrying capacity supply-demand balance in China at county level
A balanced ecological carrying capacity and its understanding are important to achieve sustainable development for human kind. Here, the concept of ecological carrying capacity has been used for measuring the ...
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Effects of a conversion from grassland to cropland on the different soil organic carbon fractions in Inner Mongolia, China
Cultivation is one of the most important human activities affecting the grassland ecosystem besides grazing, but its impacts on soil total organic carbon (C), especially on the liable organic C fractions have ...
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Changes in carbon dioxide emissions and LMDI-based impact factor decomposition: the **njiang Uygur autonomous region as a case
Studies on carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions at provincial level can provide a scientific basis for the optimal use of energy and the formulation of CO2 reduction policies. We studied the variation of CO2 emissions ...
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Spatial pattern evolution and casual analysis of county level economy in Changsha-Zhuzhou-**angtan urban agglomeration, China
In order to evaluate whether or not the county units’ economy in the Changsha-Zhuzhou-**angtan (Chang-Zhu-Tan) Urban Agglomeration was growing as expected, this study analyzed the spatial economy pattern at co...
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Exploitation of mineral resource and its influence on regional development and urban evolution in **njiang, China
The aim of this paper is to analyze the relationship between mineral resources exploitation and economic and urban development in **njiang. The article summarizes the mineral resource exploitation development ...
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Spatiotemporal characteristics of cultural sites and their driving forces in the Ili River Valley during historical periods
This study applies ArcGIS to analyze the spatiotemporal distribution of cultural sites in the Ili River Valley in northwestern China. It explores relationships between the sites’ spatiotemporal evolutionary ch...
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Mechanisms of suspended sediment restoration and bed level compensation in downstream reaches of the Three Gorges Projects (TGP)
River basin reservoir construction affects water and sediment transport processes in downstream reaches. The downstream impact of the Three Gorges Projects (TGP) has started to become apparent: (1) reduction i...
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Determinants and identification of the northern boundary of China’s tropical zone
The influence of monsoon climatic characteristics makes the tropics of China different from those of other parts of the world. Therefore, the location of the northern boundary of China’s tropical zone has been...
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An evaluation of the economic, social, and ecological risks of China-Mongolia-Russia high-speed railway construction and policy suggestions
The construction of China-Mongolia-Russia high-speed railways is a strategic move to promote transportation infrastructure inter-connectivity between these countries, which will accelerate the implementation o...
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Assessing China’s human-environment relationship
China’s coupled human-environment system (CHES) is assessed here via a systems schema that emphasizes the complex interactions of components and their attributes. In addition to the human and environment compo...
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Quantitative Analysis of the Coupling Coordination Degree Between Urbanization and Eco-environment in Mongolia
Mongolia is an important country in the Economic Corridor of China-Mongolia-Russia, a deep understanding of the coupling relationship between urbanization and the eco-environment in Mongolia is meaningful to a...
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Investment Environment Assessment and Strategic Policy for Subjects of Federation in Russia
Russia is the largest neighboring country of China. Between the two countries, the resources and industry are complemented, the political mutual trust is at a high level, and trade cooperation has a broad pros...
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The 2012 Flash Drought Threatened US Midwest Agroecosystems
In the summer of 2012, the US Midwest, the most productive agricultural region in the world, experienced the most intense and widespread drought on record for the past hundred years. The 2012 drought, characte...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Investigation of the Urban Factors Affecting Microplastic Pollution in Chinese Cities: The Case of Ningbo
Microplastic pollution is an emerging threat to global freshwater ecological security. The emission and discharge of microplastic pollutants is highly associated with human activities and, therefore, cities ar...
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Near-surface wind environment in the Yarlung Zangbo River basin, southern Tibetan Plateau
Aeolian processes have been studied extensively at low elevations, but have been relatively little studied at high elevations. Aeolian sediments are widely distributed in the Yarlung Zangbo River basin, southe...