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Long-term shifts in vegetation distribution and production and reaction to environmental perturbations (such as wildfire) is of current concern in the context of global climate change. This research focused on multi-annual differences in the normalized difference vegetation index (NDVI) in research Soum Pair 15 in the Suhkbaatar Aimag of Southeastern Mongolia, compared NDVI changes between community managed and non-community managed Soums as well as attempted to correlate wild fire occurrence with shifts in NDVI. We found a decrease in NDVI over a seven year period over both Soums. The decrease was more pronounced in the managed Soum and no changes in NDVI correlated with wild fire occurrence.

By N.Nyam-Ochir