Spatial and temporal of variations of alpine vegetation cover in the source regions of the Yangtze and Yellow Rivers of the Tibetan Plateau from 1982 to 2001

Environmental Geology

Volumn 50, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 313-322

  Yang, Jianping ^a   Ding, Yongjian ^a   Chen, Rensheng ^a  

^a Chinese Academy of Sciences   (China)

Author keywords

Alpine vegetation cover change; China; NDVI; Source regions of the Yangtze and Yellow Rivers

Indexed keywords

DEGRADATION; IMAGE ANALYSIS; LAKES; PRECIPITATION (CHEMICAL); RIVERS; VEGETATION;

ALPINE VEGETATION COVER CHANGE; METEOROLOGICAL STATIONS; NDVI; SOURCE REGIONS OF THE YANGTZE AND YELLOW RIVERS;

FORESTRY;

ALPINE ENVIRONMENT; DEGRADATION; NDVI; PERMAFROST; SPATIAL VARIATION; TEMPORAL VARIATION; VEGETATION COVER;

DEGRADATION; FORESTRY; IMAGE ANALYSIS; LAKES; PRECIPITATION; RIVERS; TIBET;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; QINGHAI-XIZANG PLATEAU; YANGTZE RIVER; YELLOW RIVER;

EID: 33745103455     PISSN: 09430105     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00254-006-0210-8     Document Type: Article

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