Assessment impacts of weather and land use/land cover (LULC) change on urban vegetation net primary productivity (NPP): A case study in guangzhou, China

Remote Sensing

Volumn 5, Issue 8, 2013, Pages 4125-4144

  Fu, Yingchun ^a   Lu, Xueyu ^a   Zhao, Yaolong ^a   Zeng, Xiantie ^a,b   Xia, Lili ^a  

^a SOUTH CHINA NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b China RS Geoinformatics Co Ltd   (China)

Author keywords

Effects; LULC change; NPP; Spatiotemporal pattern; Weather variation

Indexed keywords

ECOSYSTEM SERVICES; EFFECTS; INTERACTIVE EFFECT; LAND USE/LAND COVER; LULC CHANGE; NET PRIMARY PRODUCTIVITY; NPP; SPATIOTEMPORAL PATTERNS;

ECOSYSTEMS; VEGETATION;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

EID: 84884768773     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20724292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/rs5084125     Document Type: Article

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