Trends and climatic sensitivities of vegetation phenology in semiarid and arid ecosystems in the US Great Basin during 1982–2011

Tang, G.; Arnone III, J. A.; Verburg, P. S. J.; Jasoni, R. L.; Sun, L.

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-12-6985-2015

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https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-12-6985-2015

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https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-12-6985-2015

© Author(s) 2015. This work is distributed under
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Trends and climatic sensitivities of vegetation phenology in semiarid and arid ecosystems in the US Great Basin during 1982–2011

G. Tang, J. A. Arnone III, P. S. J. Verburg, R. L. Jasoni, and L. Sun

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Trends and climatic sensitivities of vegetation phenology in semiarid and arid ecosystems in the U.S. Great Basin during 1982-2011 G. Tang, J. A. Arnone III, P. S. J. Verburg, R. L. Jasoni，and L. Sun https://doi.org/10.5194/bgd-12-11387-2015

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We found that changes in wintertime and springtime precipitation played a more important role in the interannual variability of mean vegetation greenness while climate warming was mainly responsible for the 30-year positive trend in the magnitudes of mean vegetation greenness in the dryland ecosystems in the US Great Basin during 1982–2011.