Response of vegetation activity dynamic to climatic change and ecological restoration programs in Inner Mongolia from 2000 to 2012

Ecological Engineering

Volumn 82, Issue , 2015, Pages 276-289

  Tian, Haijing ^a,b   Cao, Chunxiang ^a   Chen, Wei ^a   Bao, Shanning ^a,b   Yang, Bin ^a,b   Myneni, Ranga B ^c  

^a STATE KEY LABORATORY OF REMOTE SENSING SCIENCE   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^c BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Climate change; Ecological restoration programs; Inner Mongolia; MODIS; NDVI; Vegetation activity

Indexed keywords

ARID REGIONS; ECOLOGY; POPULATION STATISTICS; RADIOMETERS; RESTORATION; VEGETATION;

ECOLOGICAL RESTORATION; INNER MONGOLIA; MODIS; NDVI; VEGETATION ACTIVITY;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

CLIMATE CHANGE; ENVIRONMENTAL DEGRADATION; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ENVIRONMENTAL RESTORATION; GOVERNANCE APPROACH; MODIS; NDVI; POLICY IMPLEMENTATION; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; TOPOGRAPHIC MAPPING; VEGETATION DYNAMICS;

CHINA; NEI MONGGOL;

EID: 84930195363     PISSN: 09258574     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecoleng.2015.04.098     Document Type: Article

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