Assessing the recent grassland greening trend in a long-term context based on tree-ring analysis: A case study in North China

Ecological Indicators

Volumn 9, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 1280-1283

  Liang, Eryuan ^a   Eckstein, Dieter ^b   Liu, Hongyan ^c  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

^c PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Greening trend; Natural variability; NDVI; North China; Tree ring; Typical steppe

Indexed keywords

GREENING TREND; NATURAL VARIABILITY; NDVI; NORTH CHINA; TREE RING; TYPICAL STEPPE;

DYNAMICS; MOISTURE CONTROL; VEGETATION;

FORESTRY;

CHRONOLOGY; GRASSLAND; NDVI; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; RAINFALL; TIME SERIES; TREE RING; VEGETATION DYNAMICS;

CLIMATES; CORRELATION; ECOLOGY; FORESTRY; GROWTH; MOISTURE CONTROL; PLANTS; PRODUCTIVITY; RAIN; RINGS; TREES;

PICEA; PICEA MEYERI; PINUS TABULIFORMIS;

EID: 67349281896     PISSN: 1470160X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolind.2009.02.007     Document Type: Article

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