In the riparian wet meadow ecosystem, field observations showed a trend of degradation, whereas the NDVI results showed an increasing trend.
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Vegetation Dynamic Assessment by NDVI and Field Observations for Sustainability of China's Wulagai River Basin.
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Our results reveal that the normalized difference vegetation index (NDVI) of each examined ecosystem type showed an increasing trend, in which anthropogenic impact was the primary driving force of vegetation change.
The percentage of pixels in this area that showed a decreasing trend (D) reached its highest (36.3%) in the sub-period 1997–2003 and lowest in the sub-period 2003–2007 (1.8%).