Responses of vegetation to climate change in the headwaters of China's Yellow River Basin based on zoning of dry and wet climate
黄河上游不同干湿气候区植被对气候变化的响应

Aims Precipitation and temperature are considered the limiting factors to vegetation growth in arid and cold areas,respectively.Our objective was to study the trends in vegetation cover and productivity and their relationships with prevailing hydrothermal factors in order to better understand climatic constraints on regional vegetation dynamics.Methods We zoned dry and wet climates using daily meteorological data from 1959 to 2008 at 16 locations in the headwaters of the Yellow River Basin to calculate the ...