Prominent vegetation greening in spring and autumn across China during the 1981–2018 period
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 15550693 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Mingxing Li (0000-0003-3441-5004, Chinese Academy of Sciences, corresponding author), Peili Wu (0000-0001-7908-7062, Met Office), Zhuguo Ma (0000-0002-3968-7837, Chinese Academy of Sciences), Jiandong Liu (0000-0003-0035-3570, Chinese Academy of Meteorological Sciences) |
| Year | 2022 |
| Volume | 17 |
| Issue | 12 |
| Pages | 124043-124043 |
| Publication date | 2022-12-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Environmental Research Letters (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1748-9326 • E-ISSN: 1748-9326 |
| Publisher | IOP Publishing (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1088/1748-9326/aca8be |
| OpenAlex | W4312099124 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 53 |
Vegetation greening in China has been extensively examined, but little is known about its seasonal characteristics and its association with soil moisture (SM) and temperature changes. Using high-resolution (0.1°, 8 d) datasets of leaf area index (LAI), together with SM, soil temperature (ST) datasets, and the dominance analysis method, this study is designed to detect seasonal vegetation changes across China during 1981–2018 and its links to climate change. The results show that 56.8% of land area across China experienced a greening trend while 6.6% browning trend through 1981–2018. LAI increasing area expanded to a maximum of 59.3% in spring and the decreasing area reached a maximum of 10.6% in autumn. Spring increases in LAI in main vegetation regions were significantly correlated with positive ST anomalies, while autumn decreases in LAI except sparsely vegetated regions were correlated with negative SM anomalies. Combined SM and temperature anomalies explain 10.9% of the observed LAI changes, which is 4 times larger than that directly explained by precipitation and surface air temperature (2.7%). The warming of soil under climate change was driving the LAI increases, while drying was largely responsible for LAI decreases. These findings provide further evidence of climate change impacts on regional ecosystems and highlight the importance of soil heat and water conditions in translating global warming signals
Agronomy · Atmospheric sciences · Climate change · Climatology · Dominance (genetics · Ecosystem · Geography · Global warming · Greening · Leaf area index · Meteorology · Physical geography · Precipitation · Vegetation (pathology · Water content · Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies · Environmental Science · Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics · Remote Sensing in Agriculture · Ecology · Geology
Land-use/land-cover change and ecosystem service provision in China
Characteristics, drivers and feedbacks of global greening
Nonparametric Tests Against Trend
ERA5-Land
The ERA5 global reanalysis
Human Domination of Earth's Ecosystems
Natural and anthropogenic drivers of the lost groundwater from the Ganga River basin
China and India lead in greening of the world through land-use management
Dominance analysis
| Citation velocity | historical |
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| Highly cited | No |