Responses of net primary productivity to phenological dynamics in the Tibetan Plateau, China

S Wang; B Zhang; Q Yang; G Chen; B Yang; L Lu; M Shen; Y Peng

Journal article

Responses of net primary productivity to phenological dynamics in the Tibetan Plateau, China

S Wang, B Zhang, Q Yang, G Chen, B Yang, L Lu, M Shen, Y Peng

Agricultural and Forest Meteorology | ELSEVIER | Published : 2017

DOI: 10.1016/j.agrformet.2016.08.020

Abstract

Quantifying the response of vegetation Net Primary Productivity (NPP) to phenological dynamics is critical to study climate change effects on ecosystem dynamics in the high-latitude, so investigating responses of NPP to phenological dynamics is becoming an increasing important way to identify and predict global ecosystem dynamics. In this study, we intend to quantifying the temporal trends and spatial variations of vegetation phenology and NPP across the Tibetan Plateau by calibrating and analyzing time series of the MODIS-derived normalized difference vegetation index (NDVI) during 2002–2012, and examining the mechanisms of vegetation NPP response to phenological dynamics over the plateau. ..

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University of Melbourne Researchers

Qichun Yang Author

Grants

Awarded by National Natural Science Foundation of China

Funding Acknowledgements

This study was supported by the Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 41271426, No. 41428103 and No. 91547107), National Basic Research Program of China (No. 2011CB707100), and "1-3-5 Project" of Chinese Academy of Sciences. The authors are very grateful to Prof. Hanqin Tian and the anonymous reviewers for their constructive and critical comments on this manuscript.