Long-term vegetation changes in the four mega-sandy lands in Inner Mongolia, China

Landscape Ecology

Volumn 30, Issue 9, 2015, Pages 1613-1626

  Zhou, Daojing ^a   Zhao, Xia ^b   Hu, Huifeng ^b   Shen, Haihua ^b   Fang, Jingyun ^a  

^a PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF BOTANY   (China)

Author keywords

Climate change; Desertification; Human activity; NDVI; Sandy land; Vegetation change

Indexed keywords

ANNUAL VARIATION; CLIMATE CHANGE; DATA SET; DESERTIFICATION; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; HUMAN ACTIVITY; LONG-TERM CHANGE; MODIS; NDVI; SANDY SOIL; SPATIAL VARIATION; TEMPORAL VARIATION; VEGETATION DYNAMICS; WIND VELOCITY;

CHINA; NEI MONGGOL;

EID: 84942504637     PISSN: 09212973     EISSN: 15729761     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10980-015-0151-2     Document Type: Article

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