NDVI-Based Vegetation Change in Inner Mongolia from 1982 to 2006 and Its Relationship to Climate at the Biome Scale

Table 1

Correlation between growing season NDVI and corresponding climate variables for different biomes: growing season 𝑃, growing season PET, and growing season 𝑇_mean, 𝑇_max, and 𝑇_min.

Climate variables	Correlation coefficient
	Forest	Meadow steppe	Typical steppe	Desert steppe	Desert	Crop
𝑃	−0.30	0.38*	0.58***	0.84***	0.35*	0.18
PET	0.53***	−0.27	−0.63***	−0.71***	−0.22	−0.58***
𝑇mean	0.29	0.20	−0.04	−0.29	0.02	0.12
𝑇max	0.39*	0.073	−0.13	−0.33	0.09	0.03
𝑇min	0.01	0.36*	0.16	−0.10	−0.02	0.26

∗∗∗, **, and * indicate 𝑃<0.01, 𝑃<0.05, and 𝑃<0.1, respectively.