1. Pauperizing the pastoral periphery: the marginalization of herding communities in the world’s dry lands

   • Li Ying
   • Douglas L. Johnson
   • Abdelkrim Marzouk

   Dry Pastoral Environment Pages: 1 - 14

2. The global rainforest mapping project JERS-1: a paradigm of international collaboration for monitoring land cover change

   • Deng Xiang-zheng
   • Zhan Jin-yan
   • Zhuang Da-fang

   Dry Pastoral Environment Pages: 15 - 22

3. Landscape distribution characteristics of northern foothill belts of Tianshan Mountains

   • Cheng Wei-ming
   • Zhou Cheng-hu
   • Zhang Bai-ping

   Dry Pastoral Environment Pages: 23 - 28

4. Dynamic change of net primary productivity and fractional vegetation cover in the yellow river Basin using multi-temporal AVHRR NDVI Data

   • Sun Rui
   • Liu Chang-ming
   • Zhu Qi-jiangl

   Rs & Gis Applications Pages: 29 - 34

5. Wetland vegetation biomass estimation and mapping from Landsat ETM data: a case study of poyang lake

   • Li Ren-dong
   • Liu Ji-yuan

   Rs & Gis Applications Pages: 35 - 41

6. Relationship between land cover and monsoon interannual variations in east Asia

   • Xiang Bao
   • Liu Ji-yuan

   Environment Change Pages: 42 - 48

7. Erosion environment in the sediment-rich area on the Loess Plateau

   • Jiao Ju-ying
   • Li Jing
   • Wang Wan-zhong

   Environmental Change Pages: 49 - 57

8. Total N, total P and organic matters content in floodplain soils of Xianghai Nature Reserve

   • Deng Wei
   • Zhai Jin-liang
   • He Yan

   Environmental Change Pages: 58 - 64

9. Sedimentary cycles of trace elements in Salawusu River Valley since 150 ka BP

   • Yao Chun-xial
   • Li Bao-sheng
   • Luo Kai-li

   Environmental Change Pages: 65 - 71

10. Straight river: its formation and speciality

    • Wang Sui-ji
    • Ni Jin-ren

    Environmental Change Pages: 72 - 80

11. Development stage threshold of watershed landforms in Loess Plateau and separation of erosion mechanism

    • Lu Zhong-chen
    • Chen Shao-feng
    • Chen Hao

    Environmental Change Pages: 81 - 90

12. The cooling fluctuation events during Holocene in the tropical zone of China

    • Huang Zhen-guo
    • Zhang Wei-qiang

    Climale Change Pages: 91 - 98

13. Anomaly feature of seasonal frozen soil variations on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau

    • Wang Cheng-hai
    • Dong Wen-jie
    • Wei Zhi-gang

    Climale Change Pages: 99 - 107

14. Arable land increase in northern China: facts and findings

    • Song Jin-fnping
    • Li Xiu-zhen

    Land Use Pages: 108 - 113

15. Research progress of socio-economic water cycle in China

    • Jia Shao-feng
    • Wang Guo
    • Xia Jun

    Progress Report Pages: 114 - 120

16. Projects of earth sciences supported by national natural science foundation of China

    Progress Report Pages: 121 - 125

17. Wang Shaoqiang awarded START prize

    Announcement Pages: 128 - 128

18. International Conference on Sustainable Land Use November 2002, Beijing, China First Circular Announcement (SLUC 2002)

    Announcement Pages: 128 - 128