the different natural vegetation communities exist
which the dominant species are also different.Here on the basis of land use types from two phrases of TM satellite image
the dynamic changes of natural vegetation in the northeastern Ulanbuh Desert were analyzed.The main results are that the area for fixed sand land and semifixed sand land decrease
and the mobile sand land increase
and the salinate fields also shrunk.Subsequently
the ecological water uses for natural vegetation were calculated with indirect method.The following results are presented.The ecological water use for Caragana community is about 50.01 percent of the total water use
Artemisia Nitraria Ammopiptanthus community is 41.03%
Haloxylon community 7.38%
and Tamarix community in salinate fields is about 1.58%.