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However, little is known about how grassland resilience has changed, driven by climate change and human activities, on the Mongolian Plateau. We calculated grassland resilience on the Mongolian Plateau from 2000 to 2021 using the kernel normalized difference vegetation index (kNDVI), quantified the trends of grassland resilience using a newly proposed \u201ccritical slowing down\u201d indicator with a machine learning algorithm, and compared the driving forces for these changes between Inner Mongolia and Mongolia. The findings of this study demonstrate that heightened levels of precipitation and reduced temperature contribute to the enhanced resilience of grassland ecosystems on the Mongolian Plateau. Conversely, the presence of grazing activities exhibits a detrimental effect on such resilience. In semi-arid regions, approximately 43% of grassland areas are undergoing a discernible decline in resilience. This decline is particularly pronounced in regions characterized by heightened levels of grazing intensity. In addition, resilience declined in 54% of areas with population growth compared with 32% in areas with population decline. Inner Mongolia, with its higher intensity of human activities, has a more serious decline in ecological resilience than Mongolia, indicating that further ecological restoration measures are needed.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/rs15122984","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2023,6,8]],"date-time":"2023-06-08T02:02:28Z","timestamp":1686189748000},"page":"2984","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":17,"title":["Trends of Grassland Resilience under Climate Change and Human Activities on the Mongolian Plateau"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"15","author":[{"given":"Jincheng","family":"Wu","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"State Key Laboratory of Earth Surface Processes and Resource Ecology, Faculty of Geographical Science, Beijing Normal University, Xinjiekouwai Street No. 19, Beijing 100875, China"}]},{"given":"Ziyun","family":"Sun","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"State Key Laboratory of Earth Surface Processes and Resource Ecology, Faculty of Geographical Science, Beijing Normal University, Xinjiekouwai Street No. 19, Beijing 100875, China"}]},{"given":"Ying","family":"Yao","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"State Key Laboratory of Earth Surface Processes and Resource Ecology, Faculty of Geographical Science, Beijing Normal University, Xinjiekouwai Street No. 19, Beijing 100875, China"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-3571-1932","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Yanxu","family":"Liu","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"State Key Laboratory of Earth Surface Processes and Resource Ecology, Faculty of Geographical Science, Beijing Normal University, Xinjiekouwai Street No. 19, Beijing 100875, China"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2023,6,8]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"557","DOI":"10.1146\/annurev.ecolsys.35.021103.105711","article-title":"Regime Shifts, Resilience, and Biodiversity in Ecosystem Management","volume":"35","author":"Folke","year":"2004","journal-title":"Annu. 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