Impact of China's Grain for Green Project on the landscape of vulnerable arid and semi‐arid agricultural regions: a case study in northern Shaanxi Province

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• Publication year

  2009

• Venue

  Journal of Applied Ecology

• Publication date

  2009-06-01

• Fields of study

  Agricultural and Food Sciences, Geography, Environmental Science

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  DOI 10.1111/J.1365-2664.2008.01605.X
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