Impacts of climate change and human activities on grassland vegetation variation in the Chinese Loess Plateau

• Published in: The Science of the total environment Vol. 660; pp. 236 - 244
• Main Authors: Zheng, Kai, Wei, Jian-Zhou, Pei, Jiu-Ying, Cheng, Hua, Zhang, Xu-Long, Huang, Fu-Qiang, Li, Feng-Min, Ye, Jian-Sheng
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Netherlands Elsevier B.V 10.04.2019
• Subjects: anthropogenic activities; biomass; China; Climate change; Grain for Green Project; grasslands; Human activities; Loess Plateau; moderate resolution imaging spectroradiometer; net primary productivity; normalized difference vegetation index; soil erosion; surveys; Vegetation change; vegetation cover; China; Human activities; Climate change; Vegetation change; Grain for Green Project; Loess Plateau

China initiated the “Grain for Green Project” in 1999 to mitigate soil erosion. The vegetation cover of the Chinese Loess Plateau, one of the most erosive regions in the world, has been greatly increased. However, studies on quantitatively investigating the climate change and human activities on veg...