Changing climate affects vegetation growth in the arid region of the northwestern China

X Zhao, K Tan, S Zhao, J Fang - Journal of Arid Environments, 2011 - Elsevier
The northwestern China is a typical dry-land region of Inner Asia, where significant climate
change has been observed over the past several decades. How the regional vegetation …

Vegetation dynamics and climate change on the Loess Plateau, China: 1982–2011

B Xie, X Jia, Z Qin, J Shen, Q Chang - Regional Environmental Change, 2016 - Springer
Monitoring the dynamics of vegetation growth and its response to climate change is
important to understand the mechanisms underlying ecosystem behaviors. This study …

Vegetation dynamics and its response to climate change in Central Asia

G Yin, Z Hu, X Chen, T Tiyip - Journal of Arid Land, 2016 - Springer
The plant ecosystems are particularly sensitive to climate change in arid and semi-arid
regions. However, the responses of vegetation dynamics to climate change in Central Asia …

[HTML][HTML] Response of natural vegetation to climate in dryland ecosystems: a comparative study between Xinjiang and Arizona

F Zhang, C Wang, ZH Wang - Remote Sensing, 2020 - mdpi.com
As one of the most sensitive areas to climate change, drylands cover~ 40% of the Earth's
terrestrial land surface and host more than 38% of the global population. Meanwhile, their …

[HTML][HTML] Changes in growing season vegetation and their associated driving forces in China during 2001–2012

X Liu, X Zhu, S Li, Y Liu, Y Pan - Remote sensing, 2015 - mdpi.com
In recent decades, the monitoring of vegetation dynamics has become crucial because of its
important role in terrestrial ecosystems. In this study, a satellite-derived normalized …

[HTML][HTML] Responses of natural vegetation dynamics to climate drivers in China from 1982 to 2011

Y Liu, H Lei - Remote Sensing, 2015 - mdpi.com
This study investigated the spatiotemporal variation of vegetation growth and the influence
of climatic drivers from 1982 to 2011 across China using datasets from the Normalized …

Responses of vegetation to climatic variations in the desert region of northern China

Y Zhu, J Zhang, Y Zhang, S Qin, Y Shao, Y Gao - Catena, 2019 - Elsevier
Global climate change is expected to impact vegetation dynamics. However, differences in
the responses of vegetation in desert regions remain poorly understood. We analysed …

[HTML][HTML] Changes in vegetation growth dynamics and relations with climate over China's landmass from 1982 to 2011

G Xu, H Zhang, B Chen, H Zhang, JL Innes, G Wang… - Remote Sensing, 2014 - mdpi.com
Understanding how the dynamics of vegetation growth respond to climate change at
different temporal and spatial scales is critical to projecting future ecosystem dynamics and …

Recent change of vegetation growth trend in China

S Peng, A Chen, L Xu, C Cao, J Fang… - Environmental …, 2011 - iopscience.iop.org
Using satellite-derived normalized difference vegetation index (NDVI) data, several previous
studies have indicated that vegetation growth significantly increased in most areas of China …

Spatial variability of the adaptation of grassland vegetation to climatic change in Inner Mongolia of China

S Li, Y Xie, DG Brown, Y Bai, J Hua, K Judd - Applied Geography, 2013 - Elsevier
This study analyzes spatial variability of grassland vegetation growth in response to climate
change in the central section of Inner Mongolian Autonomous Region of China. The study …