[1]ZHAO Anzhou,ZHANG Anbing,ZHAO Yanxu,et al.Spatiotemporal Changes of Vegetation in the Shaanxi—Gansu—Ningxia Region and Response to Climatic Extremes Based on MODIS NDVI Data[J].Research of Soil and Water Conservation,2018,25(03):224-231.
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Research of Soil and Water Conservation[ISSN 1005-3409/CN 61-1272/P] Volume:
25
Number of periods:
2018 03
Page number:
224-231
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Public date:
2018-04-10
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Spatiotemporal Changes of Vegetation in the Shaanxi—Gansu—Ningxia Region and Response to Climatic Extremes Based on MODIS NDVI Data
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ZHAO Anzhou1,2, ZHANG Anbing1,2, ZHAO Yanxu3, FAN Qianqian1,2, ZHAO Yuling1,2
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1. College of Resources, Hebei University of Engineering. Handan, Hebei 056038, China;
2. Hebei Collaborative Innovation Center of Coal Exploitation, Hebei University of Engineering. Handan, Hebei 056038;
3. College of Architecture and Art, Hebei University of Engineering. Handan, Hebei 056038, China
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- Keywords:
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NDVI; spatiotemporal variation; climate extremes; correlation analysis; Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningxia region
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Q948.1;P467
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- Abstract:
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Droughts, precipitation and other extreme climatic events often impact on vegetation. Base on daily precipitation, temperature (average, maximum, and minimum) data from 14 meteorological stations and a satellite-derived normalized difference vegetation index (NDVI) from MODIS dataset, we investigated relationship between vegetation change and climatic extremes in Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningxia region during 2000-2014. The results showed that the vegetation coverage of the study region exhibited the significant increase, with a linear tendency being 0.066/decade (p<0.01) during 2000-2014. Annual NDVI during 2000-2014 for grassland, shrub-land, cultivated vegetation, needle leaved forest and broad-leaf forest exhibited the significant increase in a linear trend of 0.06/decade, 0.058/decade, 0.077/decade, 0.039/decade and 0.036/decade (p<0.01), respectively. As for spatial distribution, NDVI showed thedecreasing trend from southeast to northwest, the areas in Yulin and Yan’an exhibited the significant increase because of the ecological engineering construction. All of the climatic extremes had no significantly change trend except the TXx. On the monthly scale, vegetation coverage and different vegetation types significantly positively responded to precipitation extremes and temperature extremes (TMAXmean, TMINmean, TNx, TNn, TXn and TXx) (p<0.01). All of the precipitation extremes and temperature extremes indicted significant positive relationship with NDVI in the spring and autumn (p<0.01). However, only the relationship between precipitation extremes (RX1day and RX5day) and NDVI was significant in summer. The vegetation showed the significant negative relation to RX5day in winter (p<0.05). Time lags analysis demonstrated that NDVI responded to precipitation extremes (RX1day and RX5day) and temperature extremes (TMAXmean and TXx) a lag of 1 month.