Documentary Evidence of 17th Century Landcover and Climate Change in Northern China and Mongolia Compared to Modern Spectral Greening Trends

• Published in: Land (Basel) Vol. 11; no. 1; p. 100
• Main Author: Kempf, Michael
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Basel MDPI AG 01.01.2022
• Subjects: anthropogenic activities; Anthropogenic factors; Aridity; China; Climate change; climatic factors; Cold; Datasets; Desertification; documentary sources; Global climate; Grasslands; historical climatology; Human influences; Ice ages; land cover; Land degradation; Little Ice Age; Livestock; MODIS; Mongolia; NDVI; normalized difference vegetation index; Normalized difference vegetative index; paleoecology; politics; Precipitation; Resource exploitation; Spectroradiometers; temperature; Transition zone; Trends; Vegetation; Vegetation index; Beijing China; China; Inner Mongolia China; Mongolia

Fighting land degradation of semi-arid and climate-sensitive grasslands are among the most urgent tasks of current eco-political agenda. Particularly, northern China and Mongolia are prone to climate-induced surface transformations, which were reinforced by the heavily increased numbers of livestock...