Temporal Patterns of Shrub Vegetation and Variation with Precipitation in Gurbantunggut Desert, Central Asia

Table 2

Within-season correlation coefficients between precipitation and NDVI of the shrubland within Gurbantunggut Desert. The numbers in the first column indicated the time interval for which precipitation is accumulated (0 indicated the current 16-day period, 1 indicated the first previous period, 0-1 indicated from current period to first previous period, etc.).

Periods	2004	2005	2006	2007	2008	2009	2010	2011	2012
0	0.08	−0.36	0.18	0.00	−0.14	0.01	0.35	0.10	−0.20
1	0.22	−0.34	0.37	0.10	−0.02	0.34	0.27	0.21	0.13
2	0.28	−0.07	0.22	0.36	0.19	0.35	0.35	0.31	−0.17
3	0.47	0.33	0.24	0.79^**	0.34	0.53^*	0.23	0.37	−0.57^*
4	0.24	−0.04	0.38	0.40	0.27	0.46	0.14	0.47	−0.54^*
5	−0.08	−0.16	0.36	−0.17	0.60^*	0.51	−0.12	0.21	0.07
0-1	0.22	−0.52	0.38	0.06	−0.12	0.24	0.45	0.22	−0.05
1-2	0.36	−0.31	0.41	0.30	0.13	0.49	0.47	0.36	−0.03
2-3	0.56^*	0.20	0.33	0.77^**	0.42	0.65^**	0.46	0.49	−0.56^*
3-4	0.53^*	0.23	0.45	0.82^**	0.51	0.76^**	0.29	0.62^*	−0.77^*
4-5	0.12	−0.16	0.52^*	0.16	0.70^**	0.69^**	0.01	0.51	−0.33
5-6	−0.14	−0.33	0.25	−0.34	0.59^*	0.53^*	−0.28	0.25	0.15
0–2	0.36	−0.50	0.49	0.24	0.01	0.35	0.64^*	0.38	−0.16
1–3	0.64^*	−0.06	0.55^*	0.69^**	0.33	0.64^*	0.59^*	0.56^*	−0.46
2–4	0.66^**	0.15	0.57^*	0.92^**	0.55^*	0.75^**	0.53^*	0.77^**	−0.81^*
3–5	0.42	0.10	0.67^**	0.64^*	0.80^**	0.78^**	0.18	0.75^**	−0.66^*
4–6	0.04	−0.33	0.49	−0.06	0.66^**	0.62^*	−0.15	0.59^*	−0.20
5–7	−0.20	−0.23	0.28	−0.32	0.57^*	0.51	−0.43	0.35	0.26
0–3	0.66^**	−0.25	0.62^*	0.58^*	0.20	0.50	0.67^**	0.48	−0.52^*
1–4	0.80^**	−0.07	0.76^**	0.83^**	0.45	0.74^**	0.59^*	0.70^**	−0.73^*
2–5	0.61^*	0.04	0.76^**	0.78^**	0.78^**	0.79^**	0.38	0.75^**	−0.73^*
3–6	0.35	−0.08	0.62^*	0.42	0.74^**	0.73^**	0.02	0.69^**	−0.54^*
4–7	−0.05	−0.22	0.49	−0.08	0.62^*	0.59^*	−0.29	0.57^*	−0.07
5–8	−0.06	−0.16	0.29	−0.18	0.59^*	0.54^*	−0.26	0.38	0.33
0–4	0.73^**	−0.26	0.77^**	0.74^**	0.35	0.64^*	0.69^**	0.62^*	−0.70^*
1–5	0.68^**	−0.16	0.88^**	0.76^**	0.73^**	0.82^**	0.47	0.71^**	−0.59^*
2–6	0.48	−0.11	0.67^**	0.64^*	0.81^**	0.79^**	0.24	0.71^**	−0.56^*
3–7	0.23	−0.02	0.58^*	0.36	0.73^**	0.70^**	−0.10	0.67^**	−0.39
4–8	0.08	−0.17	0.45	0.01	0.66^**	0.60^*	−0.15	0.57^*	0.03
5–9	−0.04	−0.13	0.11	−0.23	0.67^**	0.40	−0.17	0.15	0.35

and .