Urban Land-Cover Change and Its Impact on the Ecosystem Carbon Storage in a Dryland City

Urban Land-Cover Change and Its Impact on the Ecosystem Carbon Storage in a Dryland City

Lack of research into the complexity in urban land conversion, and paucity of observational data of soil organic carbon (SOC) beneath impervious surface area (ISA) limit our understanding of the urbanization effects on carbon (C) pools in dryland cities. Employing Landsat TM images acquired in 1990...

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Main Authors: Yan Yan, Chi Zhang, Yunfeng Hu, Wenhui Kuang
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2015-12-01
Series:Remote Sensing
Subjects:
land-cover change
ecosystem organic C
soil organic C
vegetation C
Urumqi
Online Access:http://www.mdpi.com/2072-4292/8/1/6

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