Vegetation dynamics and factor analysis in arid and semi-arid Inner Mongolia

Environmental Earth Sciences

Volumn 73, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 2343-2352

  Miao, Lijuan ^a   Jiang, Chong ^a   Xue, Baolin ^b   Liu, Qiang ^a   He, Bin ^a   Nath, Reshmita ^c   Cui, Xuefeng ^a  

^a BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^c INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

Climate change; Ecological restoration; Inner Mongolia; Vegetation index

Indexed keywords

ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL EFFECTS; ECONOMICS; FORESTRY; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT; VEGETATION;

ARID AND SEMI-ARID REGIONS; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; ECOLOGICAL RESTORATION; INNER MONGOLIA; INNER MONGOLIA AUTONOMOUS REGIONS; METEOROLOGICAL STATION; NORMALIZED DIFFERENCE VEGETATION INDEX; VEGETATION INDEX;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

EID: 84922835674     PISSN: 18666280     EISSN: 18666299     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12665-014-3582-1     Document Type: Article

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