Inter-annual variations in vegetation and their response to climatic factors in the upper catchments of the Yellow River from 2000 to 2010

Journal of Geographical Sciences

Volumn 24, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 963-979

  Cao, Ran ^a   Jiang, Weiguo ^a   Yuan, Lihua ^a   Wang, Wenjie ^b   Lv, Zhongliang ^c   Chen, Zheng ^a  

^a BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b CHINESE RESEARCH ACADEMY OF ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES   (China)

^c NATIONAL SATELLITE METEOROLOGICAL CENTER   (China)

Author keywords

coefficient of variation; correlation analysis; hydropower development; Mann Kendall test; NDVI time series data; Theil Sen median trend analysis; Yellow River, China

Indexed keywords

EID: 84910139011     PISSN: 1009637X     EISSN: 18619568     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11442-014-1131-1     Document Type: Article

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