Climate changes and its impact on tundra ecosystem in Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, China

Climatic Change

Volumn 106, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 463-482

  Wang, Genxu ^a,b   Bai, Wei ^b   Li, Na ^a   Hu, Hongchang ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF MOUNTAIN HAZARDS AND ENVIRONMENT   (China)

^b LANZHOU UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE LAYER; AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHS; AIR TEMPERATURE; ALPINE MEADOW; COMBINED EFFECT; DISTRIBUTION AREA; ECOLOGICAL METHODS; HEAD WATERS; HEAT SOURCES; LANDSAT; PERMAFROST AREA; PERMAFROST REGION; QINGHAI TIBET PLATEAU; REGIONAL CLIMATE; REGRESSION METHOD; SATELLITE REMOTE SENSING DATA; SOIL TEMPERATURE; SPATIAL TEMPORALS; SURFACE SOIL TEMPERATURES; SYNERGIC EFFECTS; YANGTZE RIVER; YELLOW RIVER;

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CLIMATE MODELS; DEGRADATION; ECOSYSTEMS; PERMAFROST; PHOTOGRAPHY; REMOTE SENSING; WETLANDS;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

AIR TEMPERATURE; ALPINE ENVIRONMENT; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE EFFECT; DESICCATION; ENVIRONMENTAL DEGRADATION; LANDSAT THEMATIC MAPPER; MEADOW; PERMAFROST; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SOIL TEMPERATURE; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; STEPPE; SWAMP; TUNDRA;

CHINA; QINGHAI-XIZANG PLATEAU;

EID: 79955844675     PISSN: 01650009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10584-010-9952-0     Document Type: Article

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