Characterizing land condition variability in Northern China from 1982 to 2011

Environmental Earth Sciences

Volumn 72, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 663-676

  An, Youzhi ^a   Gao, Wei ^a,b   Gao, Zhiqiang ^c  

^a EAST CHINA NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

^c YANTAI INSTITUTE OF COASTAL ZONE RESEARCH   (China)

Author keywords

Climate change; Land degradation; Linear trend analysis; NDVI

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; LINEAR REGRESSION;

GLOBAL ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; LAND DEGRADATION; LINEAR REGRESSION MODELS; LINEAR TREND ANALYSIS; NDVI; NORTHERN CHINA; PRECIPITATION DATA; VEGETATION GROWTH;

ECOLOGY;

CLIMATE EFFECT; GROWTH RATE; LAND COVER; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; REMOTE SENSING; VEGETATION STRUCTURE;

CHINA;

EID: 84904345050     PISSN: 18666280     EISSN: 18666299     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12665-013-2987-6     Document Type: Article

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