Differentiating anthropogenic modification and precipitation-driven change on vegetation productivity on the Mongolian Plateau

Landscape Ecology

Volumn 31, Issue 3, 2016, Pages 547-566

  John, Ranjeet ^a   Chen, Jiquan ^a   Kim, Youngwook ^b   Ou yang, Zu tao ^a   Xiao, Jingfeng ^c   Park, Hoguen ^a   Shao, Changliang ^a   Zhang, Yaoqi ^d   Amarjargal, Amartuvshin ^e   Batkhshig, Ochirbat ^f   Qi, Jiaguo ^a  

^a MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE   (United States)

^d AUBURN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e University of the Humanities   (Mongolia)

^f INSTITUTE OF CHEMISTRY AND CHEMICAL TECHNOLOGY   (Mongolia)

Author keywords

EVI; EVI2; GIMMS3 g NDVI; Livestock density; MODIS; Mongolian Plateau; Population density; Precipitation; RESTREND; Semi arid; Vegetation indices

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; AVHRR; CLIMATE CHANGE; ECOSYSTEM FUNCTION; HUMAN ACTIVITY; LIVESTOCK; MODIS; NDVI; POPULATION DENSITY; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); PRIMARY PRODUCTION; SATELLITE DATA; SEMIARID REGION; SHEEP; TRMM; VEGETATION DYNAMICS; VEGETATION TYPE;

CHINA; MONGOLIAN PLATEAU; NEI MONGGOL;

CAPRA HIRCUS; OVIS ARIES;

EID: 84957436402     PISSN: 09212973     EISSN: 15729761     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10980-015-0261-x     Document Type: Article

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