How long should the fully hillside-closed forest protection be implemented on the Loess Plateau, Shaanxi, China?
Background Restoration of degraded forest ecosystem is crucial for regional sustainable development. To protect the country’s fragile and fragmented environment, the Chinese government initiated an ecological engineering project, the Natural Forest Protection Program, in seventeen provinces in China...
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PeerJ Inc.
2017-09-01
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