Environmental Science
5 years ago

Declining precipitation threatens vegetation in arid Chinese river basin.

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Spatiotemporal variation of correlation between vegetation cover and precipitation in an arid mountain-oasis river basin in northwest China
Kangle Mo, Qiuwen Chen, Cheng Chen, Jianyun Zhang, Li Wang, Zhenxin Bao

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