Spatio-temporal patterns of the area experiencing negative vegetation growth anomalies in China over the last three decades

Environmental Research Letters

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2012, Pages

  Xu, Xiangtao ^a   Piao, Shilong ^a,b   Wang, Xuhui ^a   Chen, Anping ^c   Ciais, Philippe ^d   Myneni, Ranga B ^e  

^a PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^c PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d LABORATOIRE DES SCIENCES DU CLIMAT ET DE L ENVIRONNEMENT   (France)

^e BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

China; Climate change; Drought; Extreme events; Vegetation growth

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATOLOGY; DROUGHT; ECOSYSTEMS; GLOBAL WARMING; LASERS;

CHINA; EXTREME EVENTS; NORMALIZED DIFFERENCE VEGETATION INDEX; PALMER DROUGHT SEVERITY INDICES; SPATIO-TEMPORAL CHANGES; SPATIOTEMPORAL PATTERNS; TERRESTRIAL ECOSYSTEMS; VEGETATION GROWTH;

VEGETATION;

DROUGHT STRESS; EXTREME EVENT; GLOBAL WARMING; GROWTH RATE; NDVI; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; TERRESTRIAL ECOSYSTEM; VEGETATION STRUCTURE;

CHINA;

EID: 84867045034     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17489326     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/7/3/035701     Document Type: Article

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