Spatiotemporal variations of vegetation cover on the Chinese Loess Plateau (1981-2006): Impacts of climate changes and human activities

Science in China, Series D: Earth Sciences

Volumn 51, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 67-78

  Xin, ZhongBao ^a,b   Xu, JhiongXin ^a   Zheng, Wei ^a,b  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOGRAPHIC SCIENCES AND NATURAL RESOURCES RESEARCH   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

Climate changes; GIMMS; Human activities; Loess Plateau; Vegetation cover

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CULTIVATION; ECOLOGY; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); VEGETATION;

LOESS PLATEAU; VEGETATION COVER;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE EFFECT; HUMAN ACTIVITY; NDVI; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; SPOT; TREND ANALYSIS; VEGETATION COVER;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; LOESS PLATEAU; NEI MONGGOL; NINGXIA HUIZU;

EID: 37049035344     PISSN: 10069313     EISSN: 18622801     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11430-007-0137-2     Document Type: Article

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