Spatiotemporal vegetation cover variations associated with climate change and ecological restoration in the Loess Plateau

Agricultural and Forest Meteorology

Volumn 209-210, Issue , 2015, Pages 87-99

  Sun, Wenyi ^a,b   Song, Xiaoyan ^a   Mu, Xingmin ^a,b   Gao, Peng ^a,b   Wang, Fei ^a,b   Zhao, Guangju ^a,b  

^a NORTHWEST A F UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF SOIL AND WATER CONSERVATION   (China)

Author keywords

Climate change; Ecological restoration; Loess Plateau; Spatiotemporal variations; Vegetation

Indexed keywords

AGROMETEOROLOGY; CLIMATE CHANGE; DESERTIFICATION; ENVIRONMENTAL DEGRADATION; GROWING SEASON; GROWTH RATE; MODIS; NDVI; PHENOLOGY; RESTORATION ECOLOGY; SOIL CONSERVATION; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; TERRESTRIAL ECOSYSTEM; TOPSOIL; VEGETATION COVER; WATER CONTENT;

CHINA; LOESS PLATEAU;

EID: 84937971454     PISSN: 01681923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.agrformet.2015.05.002     Document Type: Article

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