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Here, we investigated the pattern of vegetation greening at different elevations in this river basin using SPOT normalized difference vegetation index (NDVI) data during 1999\u20132013, and examined its relationship with elevation-dependent changes in temperature and precipitation. The annual NDVI has increased by 8.83% from 1999 to 2013. In particular, the NDVI increased more apparently at lower elevations, but remained relatively stable or even decreased at high elevations. It seems that rising temperature has driven the basin-wide vegetation greening, but the greening rate is in contrast to the pattern of elevation-dependent warming (EDW) with more significant temperature increase at higher elevations. It appears that decreasing precipitation does not reverse the overall increasing trend in NDVI, but relatively limited precipitation (&lt;500 mm) may constrain the NDVI increases, causing apparently stable or even decreased NDVI at higher elevations (&gt;4000 m).<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/rs71215844","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2015,12,9]],"date-time":"2015-12-09T15:21:41Z","timestamp":1449674501000},"page":"16672-16687","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":55,"title":["Elevation-Dependent Vegetation Greening of the Yarlung Zangbo River Basin in the Southern Tibetan Plateau, 1999\u20132013"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"7","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-6634-9593","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Haidong","family":"Li","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Nanjing Institute of Environmental Sciences, Ministry of Environmental Protection, Nanjing 210042, China"},{"name":"Department of Geography, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN 37996, USA"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-3722-8960","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Yingkui","family":"Li","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Geography, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN 37996, USA"}]},{"given":"Weishou","family":"Shen","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Nanjing Institute of Environmental Sciences, Ministry of Environmental Protection, Nanjing 210042, China"}]},{"given":"Yanan","family":"Li","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Geography, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN 37996, USA"}]},{"given":"Jie","family":"Lin","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Collaborative Innovation Center of Sustainable Forestry in Southern China of Jiangsu Province, Nanjing Forestry University, Nanjing 210037, China"}]},{"given":"Xiaoyu","family":"Lu","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Geography, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN 37996, USA"}]},{"given":"Xia","family":"Xu","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Ecology, Evolution and Organismal Biology, Iowa State University, Ames, IA 50011, USA"},{"name":"College of Biology and the Environment, Nanjing Forestry University, Nanjing 210037, China"}]},{"given":"Jiang","family":"Jiang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Collaborative Innovation Center of Sustainable Forestry in Southern China of Jiangsu Province, Nanjing Forestry University, Nanjing 210037, China"},{"name":"Department of Microbiology &amp; Plant Biology, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK 73019, USA"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2015,12,8]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"4197","DOI":"10.1073\/pnas.0708921105","article-title":"A rapid upward shift of a forest ecotone during 40 years of warming in the Green Mountains of Vermont","volume":"102","author":"Beckage","year":"2008","journal-title":"Proc. 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