Assessment of the Ecological Impacts of Coal Mining and Restoration in Alpine Areas: A Case Study of the Muli Coalfield on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau

Surface mining inevitably impacts the ecological environment, especially in alpine and fragile mining areas. Thus, it is worth discussing the dynamic impact process of mining on regional land use and landscapes. In this study, we took the Muli coalfield, a typical alpine mining area on the Qinghai-T...

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Main Authors: Dongzhu Yuan, Zhenqi Hu, Kun Yang, Jiaxin Guo, Pengyu Li, Gensheng Li, Yaokun Fu
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: IEEE 2021-01-01
Series:IEEE Access
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Online Access:https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9638607/