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

Articles | Volume 12, issue 23

Biogeosciences, 12, 6985–6997, 2015

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

© Author(s) 2015. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.

Biogeosciences, 12, 6985–6997, 2015

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

© Author(s) 2015. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.

Articles | Volume 12, issue 23

Research article 07 Dec 2015

Research article | 07 Dec 2015

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

G. Tang et al.

Supplement

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

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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

Short summary

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.