Divergent changes in the elevational gradient of vegetation activities over the last 30 years

Mengdi Gao; Shilong Piao; Anping Chen; Hui Yang; Qiang Liu; Yongshuo H. Fu; Ivan A. Janssens

doi:10.1038/s41467-019-11035-w

Nature Communications (Jul 2019)

Divergent changes in the elevational gradient of vegetation activities over the last 30 years

Mengdi Gao,
Shilong Piao,
Anping Chen,
Hui Yang,
Qiang Liu,
Yongshuo H. Fu,
Ivan A. Janssens

Affiliations

Mengdi Gao: Sino- French Institute for Earth System Science, College of Urban and Environmental Sciences, Peking University
Shilong Piao: Sino- French Institute for Earth System Science, College of Urban and Environmental Sciences, Peking University
Anping Chen: Department of Biology, Colorado State University
Hui Yang: Sino- French Institute for Earth System Science, College of Urban and Environmental Sciences, Peking University
Qiang Liu: Sino- French Institute for Earth System Science, College of Urban and Environmental Sciences, Peking University
Yongshuo H. Fu: College of Water Sciences, Beijing Normal University
Ivan A. Janssens: Department of Biology, University of Antwerp

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-11035-w
Journal volume & issue: Vol. 10, no. 1
pp. 1 – 10

Abstract

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Climate change may lead to changes in elevational patterns of vegetation activitities. Here, the authors analyze global remotely sensing data collected during 1982–2015 to investigate the spatio-temporal dynamics of the elevational gradient in vegetation activities.

Published in Nature Communications

ISSN: 2041-1723 (Online)
Publisher: Nature Portfolio
Country of publisher: United Kingdom
LCC subjects: Science
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