title: [Spatiotemporal variations of vegetation cover in Zhejiang Province and their relations to eco-climatic indices].
abstract: This paper studied the spatiotemporal variations of normalized difference vegetation index (NDVI) in Zhejiang Province in 1982-2006, and their relations to the dominant eco-climatic factors in the Province. In the study period, the vegetation cover in the Province had a slowly decreasing trend, and the area with a significant decrease of NDVI occupied 30.71% of the total. There were significant relationships between the eco-climatic indices and the NDVI of the following year. The NDVI was significantly positively correlated with biological aridity/humidity index, and significantly negatively correlated with biological warmth index, suggesting that the increase of humidity could promote vegetation growth, while excessive heat could inhibit the vegetation growth in the study area.
authors.affiliation: Zhejiang Climate Center, Hangzhou 310017, China. davidgao82@163.com
authors.forename: Da-Wei
authors.initials: DW
authors.lastname: Gao
authors.forename: Xiao-Wei
authors.initials: XW
authors.lastname: Zhang
authors.forename: Ju-Zhen
authors.initials: JZ
authors.lastname: Cai
authors.forename: Yue
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: He
authors.forename: Jian-Zhong
authors.initials: JZ
authors.lastname: Lin
mesh_terms: D002681:China; D057231:Climate Change / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D018556:Crops, Agricultural / Q000254:growth & development*; D017753:Ecosystem; D004734:Energy Metabolism; D004784:Environmental Monitoring / Q000379:methods; D006813:Humidity; D017215:Satellite Communications; D014197:Trees / Q000254:growth & development*