Spatiotemporal trends of terrestrial vegetation activity along the urban development intensity gradient in China's 32 major cities

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 488-489, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 136-145

  Zhou, Decheng ^a   Zhao, Shuqing ^a   Liu, Shuguang ^b   Zhang, Liangxia ^c  

^a PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b CENTRAL SOUTH UNIVERSITY OF FORESTRY AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

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

Author keywords

Actual urbanization effects (AUE); AIC; MODIS enhanced vegetation index (EVI); Positive urban effects (PUE); Theoretical urbanization effects (TUE); Urbanization

Indexed keywords

ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT; RADIOMETERS; RURAL AREAS; VEGETATION;

ACTUAL URBANIZATION EFFECTS (AUE); AIC; ENHANCED VEGETATION INDEX; THEORETICAL URBANIZATION EFFECTS (TUE); URBAN EFFECT; URBANIZATION;

URBAN GROWTH;

ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; MANAGEMENT PRACTICE; MODIS; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; TERRESTRIAL ENVIRONMENT; THEORETICAL STUDY; URBAN DEVELOPMENT; URBANIZATION; VEGETATION INDEX;

ACTUAL URBANIZATION EFFECT; ARTICLE; CHINA; CITY; CLIMATE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT; MODIS ENHANCED VEGETATION INDEX; POSITIVE URBAN EFFECT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RURAL AREA; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; TERRESTRIAL VEGETATION; THEORETICAL URBANIZATION EFFECT; URBAN AREA; URBAN DEVELOPMENT INTENSITY; URBANIZATION; VEGETATION;

CHINA;

ACTUAL URBANIZATION EFFECTS (AUE); AIC; MODIS ENHANCED VEGETATION INDEX (EVI); POSITIVE URBAN EFFECTS (PUE); THEORETICAL URBANIZATION EFFECTS (TUE); URBANIZATION;

CHINA; CITIES; CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; PLANT DEVELOPMENT; TREES; URBAN POPULATION; URBAN RENEWAL; URBANIZATION;

EID: 84899908104     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: 18791026     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2014.04.080     Document Type: Article

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