The Maqu wetland located in the northeast of Tibetan Plateau is an important water conserving and supplying area in the upriver regions of Yellow River.For finding out the changes of Maqu wetland under the global warming background,the wetland resources in Maqu were investigated and monitored dynamically via analyzing the Landsat-5/ TM and Landsat-7/ETM+ images in 1990,1994 and 2001,using the stepwise discriminant analysis of spatial-statistics,supported by RS and GIS techniques.Combining the meteorological...