Geographic Features of Severly Affected Vegetated Areas in the Nanling Mountains Due to the 2008 Ice Storms in Southern China

Bibliographic Data

ID12337077
AuthorsJi Chen (0000-0002-9476-1737, a Department of Civil Engineering , The University of Hong Kong, corresponding author), Liqun Sun (0000-0002-2637-7151, a Department of Civil Engineering , The University of Hong Kong)
Year2010
Volume27
Issue1-2
Pages145-160
Publication date2010-01-01
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueAsian Geographer (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1022-5706 • E-ISSN: 2158-1762
PublisherRoutledge (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/10225706.2010.9684158
OpenAlexW2005593645
LanguageEN
References cited9

The ice/snow storms which occurred from 10 January to 2 February 2008 in southern China were catastrophic to the forest ecosystem. In the study of Chen and Sun (2010), the severely affected vegetated areas due to the storms are identified by using the MODIS enhanced vegetation index (EVI). This study focuses on one of these areas, the Nanling Mountains, to investigate their geographic features. During the storm period, it is found that the Nanling Mountains suffered from only the ice storms. The severely affected vegetated areas generally have a high EVI, indicting a high density of vegetated lands, which are mostly covered by mixed forest. The slopes and drainage contributing areas of the impacted areas are normally larger and smaller, respectively, than those locations at which the vegetation was not severely impacted by the ice storms. The dominant slope aspects are southeast and south for the impacted areas below elevations of 650 m

Archaeology · China · Climatology · Geography · Meteorology · Physical geography · Snow · Storm · Vegetation (pathology · Cryospheric studies and observations · Environmental Science · Remote Sensing in Agriculture · Tree Root and Stability Studies · Geology · Oceanography

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