Assessing the evolution of oases in arid regions by reconstructing their historic spatio-temporal distribution: a case study of the Heihe River Basin, China - XIE, Yaowen; WANG, Guisheng; WANG, Xueqiang; FAN, Peilei (Frontiers of earth science, 2017)
Keywords: Abandonment; Agricultural policy; arid region; Arid regions; Arid zones; Case studies; China; cultivated oasis; Defense programs; driving factors; Earth and Environmental Science; Earth Sciences; Ecological conditions; Economic factors; Evolution; Forces (mechanics); Heihe River Basin; Historic sites; Hydrologic processes; Hydrology; landscape change; Microclimate; Oases; politics; Remote sensing; Research Article; River basins; Rivers; socioeconomic factors; Socioeconomics; Spatial distribution; spatio-temporal process; Stability; Taiwan; Temporal distribution; Watersheds; China; Taiwan; arid region; Heihe River Basin; cultivated oasis; driving factors; landscape change; spatiotemporal process