Understanding the dynamic coupling between vegetation cover and climatic factors in a semiarid region-a case study of Inner Mongolia, China

Ecohydrology

Volumn 6, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 917-926

  Cao, Lei ^a   Xu, Jianhua ^a   Chen, Yaning ^b   Li, Weihong ^b   Yang, Yang ^a   Hong, Yulian ^a   Li, Zhuo ^a  

^a EAST CHINA NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b XINJIANG INSTITUTE OF ECOLOGY AND GEOGRAPHY   (China)

Author keywords

Climatic factors; NDVI; R S analysis; Seasonal Kendall test; Semiarid land; Stepwise regression; Vegetation coverage

Indexed keywords

CLIMATIC FACTORS; NDVI; R/S ANALYSIS; SEMI-ARID LANDS; STEPWISE REGRESSION; VEGETATION COVERAGE;

ARID REGIONS; ECOLOGY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL TESTS;

VEGETATION;

CORRELATION; GAUSSIAN METHOD; NDVI; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SEMIARID REGION; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; SPOT; STEPPE; TREND ANALYSIS; VEGETATION COVER;

CHINA; NEI MONGGOL;

EID: 84890166581     PISSN: 19360584     EISSN: 19360592     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/eco.1245     Document Type: Article

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