Assessing vegetation dynamics and their relationships with climatic variability in Heilongjiang province, northeast China

Environmental Earth Sciences

Volumn 64, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 2013-2024

  Liu, Wenbin ^a,b,c   Cai, Tijiu ^a   Ju, Cunyong ^a   Fu, Guobin ^d   Yao, Yuefeng ^a   Cui, Xueqing ^a  

^a NORTHEAST FORESTRY UNIVERSITY   (China)

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

^c UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^d CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

Climate variability; Land use changes; Northeast China; Remote sensing; Vegetation dynamics

Indexed keywords

BOREAL ECOSYSTEMS; CLIMATE VARIABILITY; CLIMATIC FACTORS; CLIMATIC VARIABILITY; HUMAN ACTIVITIES; INTERANNUAL; INTERANNUAL VARIATION; LAND USE CHANGES; LAND-USE CHANGE; METEOROLOGICAL DATASETS; NATURAL FORCES; NORMALIZED DIFFERENCE VEGETATION INDEX; NORTHEAST CHINA; SEASONAL VARIATION; SPATIAL DIFFERENTIATION; VEGETATION COVER; VEGETATION DYNAMICS;

DYNAMICS; ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT; LAND USE; REMOTE SENSING; VEGETATION;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

ANNUAL VARIATION; ASSESSMENT METHOD; BOREAL FOREST; CLIMATE CHANGE; DATA SET; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT; HOMOGENEITY; HUMAN ACTIVITY; LAND USE CHANGE; METEOROLOGY; NDVI; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); REMOTE SENSING; SEASONAL VARIATION; VEGETATION COVER; VEGETATION DYNAMICS;

CHINA; HEILONGJIANG;

EID: 81155137820     PISSN: 18666280     EISSN: 18666299     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12665-011-1021-0     Document Type: Article

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