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https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-12-2907-2015
https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-12-2907-2015
Research article
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21 May 2015
Research article |  | 21 May 2015

Assessing vegetation structure and ANPP dynamics in a grassland–shrubland Chihuahuan ecotone using NDVI–rainfall relationships

M. Moreno-de las Heras, R. Díaz-Sierra, L. Turnbull, and J. Wainwright

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Exploration of NDVI-rainfall relationships provided ready biophysically based criteria to study the spatial distribution and dynamics of ANPP for herbaceous and shrub vegetation across a grassland-shrubland Chihuahuan ecotone (Sevilleta NWR, New Mexico). Overall our results suggest that shrub encroachment has not been particularly active for 2000-2013 in the area, although future reductions in summer precipitation and/or increases in winter rainfall may intensify the shrub-encroachment process.
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