Impact of Climate Change on Temperate and Alpine Grasslands in China during 1982–2006

Table 3

Correlation coefficients () and two-tailed significance test values () between seasonal mean NDVI and precipitation or temperature in the previous season for different grassland types.

	Temperate meadow		Temperate steppe		Temperate desert steppe		Alpine meadow		Alpine steppe
Nongrowing season
Precipitation	0.190	0.364	0.413	0.046	0.416	0.039	0.076	0.182	0.232	0.263
	0.372	0.067	0.556	0.004	0.348	0.089	−0.135	0.521	−0.231	0.267
	0.369	0.070	0.504	0.010	0.264	0.203	−0.153	0.466	−0.200	0.337
	0.370	0.068	0.588	0.002	0.403	0.046	−0.057	0.787	−0.306	0.137
Spring
Precipitation	0.137	0.514	0.502	0.011	0.412	0.041	0.155	0.458	0.565	0.003
	−0.422	0.036	0.019	0.927	−0.033	0.877	0.124	0.555	−0.144	0.491
	−0.538	0.006	0.049	0.476	−0.147	0.484	0.090	0.670	−0.216	0.299
	−0.219	0.294	0.283	0.171	0.143	0.497	0.191	0.361	−0.145	0.488
Summer
Precipitation	−0.125	0.552	0.529	0.007	0.657	0.001	0.371	0.068	0.128	0.333
	0.114	0.586	−0.123	0.915	−0.033	0.874	0.279	0.392	0.099	0.638
	0.128	0.543	−0.077	0.712	−0.053	0.802	0.115	0.586	0.235	0.737
	0.107	0.611	0.240	0.247	0.198	0.344	0.456	0.022	0.171	0.258

Significant at and levels.