Pattern of NDVI-based vegetation greening along an altitudinal gradient in the eastern Himalayas and its response to global warming

Environmental Monitoring and Assessment

Volumn 188, Issue 3, 2016, Pages 1-10

  Li, Haidong ^a   Jiang, Jiang ^b   Chen, Bin ^a   Li, Yingkui ^c   Xu, Yuyue ^d   Shen, Weishou ^a  

^a NANJING INSTITUTE OF ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES   (China)

^b NANJING FORESTRY UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

^d NANJING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Climate change; Elevation; Mountain ecosystem; Normalized difference vegetation index (NDVI); Southeastern Tibet; Vegetation greening

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; CONSERVATION; ECOLOGY; ECOSYSTEMS; FORESTRY; GLOBAL WARMING; SEA LEVEL; VEGETATION;

ELEVATION; MOUNTAIN ECOSYSTEMS; NORMALIZED DIFFERENCE VEGETATION INDEX; SOUTHEASTERN TIBET; VEGETATION GREENING;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

ALTITUDINAL ZONATION; BIODIVERSITY; CLIMATE CHANGE; ELEVATION; GLOBAL WARMING; MOUNTAIN ENVIRONMENT; NDVI;

CLIMATE CHANGE; CONSERVATION BIOLOGY; FOREST; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; MODEL; PRECIPITATION; VEGETATION; BIODIVERSITY; CHINA; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; PLANT; SATELLITE IMAGERY; TEMPERATURE;

CHINA; HIMALAYAS; XIZANG;

BIODIVERSITY; CHINA; CLIMATE CHANGE; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; GLOBAL WARMING; PLANTS; SATELLITE IMAGERY; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 84975701760     PISSN: 01676369     EISSN: 15732959     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10661-016-5196-4     Document Type: Article

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