Liu, Yang; Liu, Ronggao; Ge, Quansheng - In: Natural Hazards 54 (2010) 3, pp. 851-862
The Ms 8.0 Wenchuan earthquake in 2008 has led to huge damage to land surface vegetation in northwest Sichuan, one of the typical ecological fragile regions in China. In this paper, the vegetation degradation by the earthquake and its recovery after the disaster are evaluated from analysis of...