Vegetation restoration in Northern China: A contrasted picture

• Published in: Land degradation & development Vol. 31; no. 6; pp. 669 - 676
• Main Authors: Wang, Feng, Pan, Xubin, Gerlein‐Safdi, Cynthia, Cao, Xiaoming, Wang, Sen, Gu, Lianhong, Wang, Dongfang, Lu, Qi
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Chichester Wiley Subscription Services, Inc 15.04.2020
• Subjects: Afforestation; Annual precipitation; Arid regions; China; Coverage; data collection; Datasets; Desertification; Ecological effects; ecological restoration; Environmental restoration; Forestry; forests; inventories; Land degradation; monitoring; normalized difference vegetation index; Normalized difference vegetative index; precipitation pattern; rain; Rainfall; Reforestation; Restoration; Semi arid areas; semiarid zones; Survival; survival rate; Three‐North Shelterbelt Programme; trees; Vegetation; Vegetation index; China

China started a long‐term effort to mitigate desertification and ensure the sustainability of its environment by implementing multiple large‐scale national ecological restoration projects since 1978, but their success has been highly debated for a long time. Here, we estimated the change of vegetati...