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https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-19-1189-2019
© Author(s) 2019. This work is distributed under
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the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
A high-resolution spatial assessment of the impacts of drought variability on vegetation activity in Spain from 1981 to 2015
Sergio M. Vicente-Serrano
CORRESPONDING AUTHOR
Instituto Pirenaico de Ecología, Spanish National Research
Council (IPE-CSIC), Campus de Aula Dei, P.O. Box 13034, 50059 Saragossa,
Spain
Cesar Azorin-Molina
Department of Earth Sciences, Regional Climate Group,
University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden
Marina Peña-Gallardo
Instituto Pirenaico de Ecología, Spanish National Research
Council (IPE-CSIC), Campus de Aula Dei, P.O. Box 13034, 50059 Saragossa,
Spain
Miquel Tomas-Burguera
Estación
Experimental de Aula Dei, Spanish National Research Council (EEAD-CSIC),
Saragossa, Spain
Fernando Domínguez-Castro
Instituto Pirenaico de Ecología, Spanish National Research
Council (IPE-CSIC), Campus de Aula Dei, P.O. Box 13034, 50059 Saragossa,
Spain
Natalia Martín-Hernández
Instituto Pirenaico de Ecología, Spanish National Research
Council (IPE-CSIC), Campus de Aula Dei, P.O. Box 13034, 50059 Saragossa,
Spain
Santiago Beguería
Estación
Experimental de Aula Dei, Spanish National Research Council (EEAD-CSIC),
Saragossa, Spain
Ahmed El Kenawy
Department of Geography, Mansoura University, 35516,
Mansoura, Egypt
Iván Noguera
Instituto Pirenaico de Ecología, Spanish National Research
Council (IPE-CSIC), Campus de Aula Dei, P.O. Box 13034, 50059 Saragossa,
Spain
Mónica García
Department of Environmental Engineering, Technical
University of Denmark, Lyngby, Denmark
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Drought is a major driver of vegetation activity in Spain. Here we used a high-resolution remote-sensing dataset spanning the period from 1981 to 2015 to assess the sensitivity of 23 vegetation types to drought across Spain. Results demonstrate that vegetation activity is controlled largely by the interannual variability of drought. Nevertheless, there are some considerable spatio-temporal variations, which can be linked to differences in land cover and aridity conditions.
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