Spatiotemporal Patterns of Vegetation Greenness Change and Associated Climatic and Anthropogenic Drivers on the Tibetan Plateau during 2000–2015
Abstract
:1. Introduction
2. Materials and Methods
2.1. Study Area
2.2. Data Sources and Pre-Processing
2.2.1. NDVI Datasets
2.2.2. Climatic, Human Footprint Pressure, and Auxiliary Datasets
2.3. Methods
2.3.1. Linear Regression Analysis
2.3.2. The Break for Additive Season and Trend Model (BFAST)
2.3.3. Partial Correlation Analysis
3. Results
3.1. Inter-Annual Variations in Growing Season Vegetation Greenness
3.2. Major Shifts in Vegetation Greenness Trends
3.3. Vegetation Greenness Responses to Climate Change
3.4. Relationship between Vegetation Greenness and Anthropogenic Disturbance
4. Discussion
5. Conclusions
Supplementary Materials
Author Contributions
Funding
Acknowledgments
Conflicts of Interest
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Code | Climate Condition | Ecosystem Zones |
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OA1 | Plateau subtropical humid | Southeastern Himalayas montane evergreen broad-leaved forest zone |
IIAB1 | Plateau temperate humid/sub-humid | Western Sichuan-eastern Tibet montane coniferous forest zone |
IB1 | Plateau sub-cold sub-humid | Guoluo-Naqu mountain alpine shrub-meadow zone |
IC1 | Plateau sub-cold semi-arid | Southern Qinghai alpine meadow-steppe zone |
IC2 | Plateau sub-cold semi-arid | Qiangtang Plateau alpine steppe zone |
IIC1 | Plateau temperate semi-arid | Southern Tibet montane shrub-steppe zone |
IIC2 | Plateau temperate semi-arid | Eastern Qinghai-Qilian montane steppe zone |
IID1 | Plateau temperate arid | Ngali montane desert zone |
IID2 | Plateau temperate arid | Qaidam Basin desert region |
IID3 | Plateau sub-cold arid | North Kunlun desert zone |
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Li, L.; Zhang, Y.; Liu, L.; Wu, J.; Wang, Z.; Li, S.; Zhang, H.; Zu, J.; Ding, M.; Paudel, B. Spatiotemporal Patterns of Vegetation Greenness Change and Associated Climatic and Anthropogenic Drivers on the Tibetan Plateau during 2000–2015. Remote Sens. 2018, 10, 1525. https://doi.org/10.3390/rs10101525
Li L, Zhang Y, Liu L, Wu J, Wang Z, Li S, Zhang H, Zu J, Ding M, Paudel B. Spatiotemporal Patterns of Vegetation Greenness Change and Associated Climatic and Anthropogenic Drivers on the Tibetan Plateau during 2000–2015. Remote Sensing. 2018; 10(10):1525. https://doi.org/10.3390/rs10101525
Chicago/Turabian StyleLi, Lanhui, Yili Zhang, Linshan Liu, Jianshuang Wu, Zhaofeng Wang, Shicheng Li, Huamin Zhang, Jiaxing Zu, Mingjun Ding, and Basanta Paudel. 2018. "Spatiotemporal Patterns of Vegetation Greenness Change and Associated Climatic and Anthropogenic Drivers on the Tibetan Plateau during 2000–2015" Remote Sensing 10, no. 10: 1525. https://doi.org/10.3390/rs10101525