Contributions of natural and human factors to increases in vegetation productivity in China

Ecosphere

Volumn 6, Issue 11, 2015, Pages

  Xiao, Jingfeng ^a,b   Zhou, Yu ^c,d   Zhang, Li ^c  

^a NANJING UNIVERSITY OF INFORMATION SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE   (United States)

^c INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

Afforestation; Attribution; Carbon dioxide; Carbon fluxes; Climate change; Coupled natural and human systems; Crop yield; Greening; Human activities; Management practices; NDVI; Nitrogen deposition

Indexed keywords

EID: 84948981061     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21508925     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/ES14-00394.1     Document Type: Article

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