Temperature sensitivity of spring vegetation phenology correlates to within-spring warming speed over the Northern Hemisphere

Ecological Indicators

Volumn 50, Issue , 2015, Pages 62-68

  Wang, Cong ^a   Cao, Ruyin ^b   Chen, Jin ^a   Rao, Yuhan ^a   Tang, Yanhong ^b  

^a BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES   (Japan)

Author keywords

Climate change; NDVI time series; Spring temperature; Spring vegetation phenology; Temperature sensitivity

Indexed keywords

ADVANCED VERY HIGH RESOLUTION RADIOMETERS (AVHRR); CLIMATE CHANGE; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; TIME SERIES; VEGETATION;

ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; NDVI TIME SERIES; NORTHERN HEMISPHERES; SPRING PRECIPITATION; SPRING TEMPERATURES; TEMPERATURE CHANGES; TEMPERATURE SENSITIVITY; VEGETATION PHENOLOGY;

SPRINGS (COMPONENTS);

ANNUAL VARIATION; AVHRR; CLIMATE CHANGE; DATA SET; NDVI; NORTHERN HEMISPHERE; PHENOLOGY; SPATIAL VARIATION; SPRING (SEASON); TEMPERATURE EFFECT; TIME SERIES; VEGETATION DYNAMICS; WARMING;

EID: 84910647999     PISSN: 1470160X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolind.2014.11.004     Document Type: Article

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