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Divergent changes of the elevational synchronicity in vegetation spring phenology in North China from 2001 to 2017 in connection with variations in chilling by Junhu Dai; Mengyao Zhu; Wei Mao; Ronggao Liu; Huanjiong Wang; Juha Mikael Alatalo; Zexing Tao; Quansheng Ge is a Environmental Science article available to read on EtoBox.
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## Abstract Mountain ecosystems are sensitive to climate change, and vegetation phenology provides one of the best signals to exemplify ecosystem responses to climate change. Vegetation phenology of mountain ecosystems is usually characterized with an elevational pattern, with the growing season starts earlier and ends later in lower versus higher elevations. With climate change, this elevational gradient of vegetation phenology is likely to shift as well. However, both the patterns and the underlying driving forces for potential changes in this elevational gradient of vegetation phenology are still unclear. Here, we used 500‐m resolutioned normalized difference vegetation index (NDVI) data from Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) for the period of 2001 to 2017 to investigate changes in the start of growing season (SOS) along the elevational gradient for six mountains in northern China dominated by broadleaf deciduous forests. We found that while SOS consistently advanced for most of the pixels, the elevational lapse rate of SOS (S~E~) showed various trends for different mountains. Specifically, S~E~ showed a significant (p‐value < .05) decreasing trend for the tw
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- Author
- Junhu Dai; Mengyao Zhu; Wei Mao; Ronggao Liu; Huanjiong Wang; Juha Mikael Alatalo; Zexing Tao; Quansheng Ge
- Publisher
- Wiley
- Published
- 2021
- Language
- EN
- Field
- Environmental Science (Physical Sciences)