Consistent shifts in spring vegetation green-up date across temperate biomes in China, 1982-2006

Global Change Biology

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 870-880

  Wu, Xiuchen ^a   Liu, Hongyan ^a  

^a PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI); Precipitation; Spring phenology; Temperate biomes; Temperature

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERE-BIOSPHERE INTERACTION; AVHRR; BIOME; CARBON CYCLE; CLIMATE CHANGE; ECOSYSTEM RESPONSE; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; LONG-TERM CHANGE; NDVI; NOAA SATELLITE; PHENOLOGY; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); SPRING (SEASON); TEMPERATE ENVIRONMENT; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; VEGETATION;

ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; CHINA; CLIMATE; PLANT DEVELOPMENT; SEASON; TEMPERATURE;

BIODIVERSITY; CHINA; CLIMATE; PLANT DEVELOPMENT; SEASONS; TEMPERATURE;

CHINA;

EID: 84873145870     PISSN: 13541013     EISSN: 13652486     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/gcb.12086     Document Type: Article

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