Recent trends in vegetation greenness in China significantly altered annual evapotranspiration and water yield

Environmental Research Letters

Volumn 11, Issue 9, 2016, Pages

  Liu, Yibo ^a,b   Xiao, Jingfeng ^a,b   Ju, Weimin ^c   Xu, Ke ^d   Zhou, Yanlian ^c   Zhao, Yuntai ^e  

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

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE   (United States)

^c NANJING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^e China Land Surveying and Planning Institute   (China)

Author keywords

afforestation; browning; evapotranspiration; greening; leaf area index; vegetation greenness; water yield

Indexed keywords

EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; REFORESTATION; WATER SUPPLY;

AFFORESTATION; BROWNING; GREENING; LEAF AREA INDEX; VEGETATION GREENNESS; WATER YIELD;

VEGETATION;

AFFORESTATION; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; HYDROLOGICAL CYCLE; LEAF AREA INDEX; PIXEL; RIVER BASIN; SATELLITE DATA; TREND ANALYSIS; VEGETATION COVER; WATER SUPPLY; WATER YIELD;

CHINA;

EID: 84992047275     PISSN: 17489318     EISSN: 17489326     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/11/9/094010     Document Type: Article

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