Vegetation dynamics and its driving forces from climate change and human activities in the Three-River Source Region, China from 1982 to 2012

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 563-564, Issue , 2016, Pages 210-220

  Zhang, Ying ^a   Zhang, Chaobin ^a   Wang, Zhaoqi ^a   Chen, Yizhao ^a   Gang, Chengcheng ^a   An, Ru ^b   Li, Jianlong ^a  

^a NANJING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b HOHAI UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Climate change; Driving factors; Human activities; Interannual variation; Net primary productivity (NPP); Quantitative assessment

Indexed keywords

DYNAMICS; ECOLOGY; ECOSYSTEMS; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PHYTOPLANKTON; TRANSPORT PROPERTIES; VEGETATION;

DRIVING FACTORS; HUMAN ACTIVITIES; INTERANNUAL VARIATION; NET PRIMARY PRODUCTIVITY; QUANTITATIVE ASSESSMENTS;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

ANNUAL VARIATION; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE CONDITIONS; CLIMATE VARIATION; HUMAN ACTIVITY; NET PRIMARY PRODUCTION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RESTORATION ECOLOGY; VEGETATION DYNAMICS;

ARTICLE; CHINA; CLIMATE CHANGE; ENVIRONMENTAL TEMPERATURE; HUMAN IMPACT (ENVIRONMENT); PRECIPITATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RIVER ECOSYSTEM; SOLAR RADIATION; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; VEGETATION DYNAMICS;

CHINA;

EID: 84973092378     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: 18791026     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2016.03.223     Document Type: Article

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