The spatiotemporal patterns of vegetation coverage and biomass of the temperate deserts in Central Asia and their relationships with climate controls

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 175, Issue , 2016, Pages 271-281

  Zhang, Chi ^a   Lu, Dengsheng ^b,c   Chen, Xi ^a   Zhang, Yuanming ^a   Maisupova, Bagila ^d   Tao, Ye ^a,e  

^a XINJIANG INSTITUTE OF ECOLOGY AND GEOGRAPHY   (China)

^b ZHEJIANG A F UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UUUspanov Kazakh Research Institute of Soil Science and Agrichemistry   (Kazakhstan)

^e ANQING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Biomass; Central Asia; Climate change; Temperate desert; Vegetation fractional coverage

Indexed keywords

ARID REGIONS; BIOMASS; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; LANDFORMS; RADIOMETERS; SATELLITE IMAGERY; VEGETATION;

ADAPTATION STRATEGIES; BIOMASS DISTRIBUTION; CENTRAL ASIA; MODERATE RESOLUTION IMAGING SPECTRORADIOMETER DATUM; PRECIPITATION GRADIENTS; SPATIOTEMPORAL PATTERNS; TEMPERATE DESERT; VEGETATION SUCCESSIONS;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

BIOMASS; CLIMATE CHANGE; DESERT; DROUGHT; MODIS; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; SUCCESSION; TEMPERATE FOREST; VEGETATION COVER;

CENTRAL ASIA;

EID: 84954323062     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2016.01.002     Document Type: Article

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