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DOI	10.1002/ldr.3767
	Grassland greening on the Mongolian Plateau despite higher grazing intensity
	Miao, Lijuan; Sun, Zhanli; Ren, Yanjun; Schierhorn, Florian; Mueller, Daniel
通讯作者	Muller, D
来源期刊	LAND DEGRADATION & DEVELOPMENT
ISSN	1085-3278
EISSN	1099-145X
英文摘要	Changes in land management and climate alter vegetation dynamics, but the determinants of vegetation changes often remain elusive, especially in global drylands. Here we assess the determinants of grassland greenness on the Mongolian Plateau, one of the world's largest grassland biomes, which covers Mongolia and the province of Inner Mongolia in China. We use spatial panel regressions to quantify the impact of precipitation, temperature, radiation, and the intensity of livestock grazing on the normalized difference vegetation indices (NDVI) during the growing seasons from 1982 to 2015 at the county level. The results suggest that the Mongolian Plateau experienced vegetation greening from 1982 to 2015. Precipitation and animal density were the most influential factors contributing to higher NDVI on the grasslands of Inner Mongolia and Mongolia. Our results highlight the dominant effect of climate variability, and especially of the precipitation variability, on the grassland greenness in Mongolian drylands. The findings challenge the common belief that higher grazing pressure is the key driver for land degradation. The analysis exemplifies how representative wall-to-wall results for large areas can be attained from exploring space-time data and adds empirical insights to the puzzling relationship between grazing intensity and vegetation growth in dryland areas.
英文关键词	China climate change grassland livestock grazing NDVI spatial panel regression vegetation growth
类型	Article ; Early Access
语种	英语
开放获取类型	Other Gold
收录类别	SCI-E
WOS记录号	WOS:000573897100001
WOS关键词	INNER-MONGOLIA ; VEGETATION DYNAMICS ; CLIMATE-CHANGE ; SOIL-NITROGEN ; DEGRADATION ; TRENDS ; NDVI ; DESERTIFICATION ; RESPONSES ; STEPPE
WOS类目	Environmental Sciences ; Soil Science
WOS研究方向	Environmental Sciences & Ecology ; Agriculture
来源机构	南京信息工程大学
资源类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://119.78.100.177/qdio/handle/2XILL650/328291
作者单位	[Miao, Lijuan] Nanjing Univ Informat Sci & Technol, Sch Geog Sci, Nanjing, Peoples R China; [Miao, Lijuan; Sun, Zhanli; Ren, Yanjun; Schierhorn, Florian; Mueller, Daniel] Leibniz Inst Agr Dev Transit Econ IAMO, Theodor Lieser Str 2, D-06120 Halle, Germany; [Ren, Yanjun] Univ Kiel, Dept Agr Econ, Kiel, Germany; [Mueller, Daniel] Humboldt Univ, Dept Geog, Berlin, Germany; [Mueller, Daniel] Humboldt Univ, Integrat Res Inst Transformat Human Environm Syst, Berlin, Germany
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Miao, Lijuan,Sun, Zhanli,Ren, Yanjun,et al. Grassland greening on the Mongolian Plateau despite higher grazing intensity[J]. 南京信息工程大学.
APA	Miao, Lijuan,Sun, Zhanli,Ren, Yanjun,Schierhorn, Florian,&Mueller, Daniel.
MLA	Miao, Lijuan,et al."Grassland greening on the Mongolian Plateau despite higher grazing intensity".LAND DEGRADATION & DEVELOPMENT