Journal article
Assessing the impact of urbanization on regional net primary productivity in Jiangyin County, China
Abstract
Urbanization is one of the most important aspects of global change. The process of urbanization has a significant impact on the terrestrial ecosystem carbon cycle. The Yangtze Delta region has one of the highest rates of urbanization in China. In this study, carried out in Jiangyin County as a representative region within the Yangtze Delta, land use and land cover changes were estimated using Landsat TM and ETM+ imagery. With these satellite …
Authors
Xu C; Liu M; An S; Chen JM; Yan P
Journal
Journal of Environmental Management, Vol. 85, No. 3, pp. 597–606
Publisher
Elsevier
Publication Date
November 2007
DOI
10.1016/j.jenvman.2006.08.015
ISSN
0301-4797