Response of altitudinal vegetation belts of the Tianshan Mountains in northwestern China to climate change during 1989-2015.

ABSTRACT: Within the mountain altitudinal vegetation belts, the shift of forest tree lines and subalpine steppe belts to high altitudes constitutes an obvious response to global climate change. However, whether or not similar changes occur in steppe belts (low altitude) and nival belts in different areas within mountain systems remain undetermined. It is also unknown if these, responses to climate change are consistent. Here, using Landsat remote sensing images from 1989 to 2015, we obtained the spatial distribution of altitudinal vegetation belts in different periods of the Tianshan Mountains in Northwestern China. We suggest that the responses from different altitudinal vegetation belts to global climate change are different. The changes in the vegetation belts at low altitudes are spatially diffe

SUBMITTER: Zhang Y 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7921417 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature