Impacts of climate change and anthropogenic activities on vegetation change: Evidence from typical areas in China

Understanding the interactions of climate-vegetation and human-vegetation has been a critical issue and increasingly attracting attention from scientific community in the field of global change research. This study investigated the heterogeneous impacts of climate change and anthropogenic activities...

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Autores principales:	Kaiyuan Zheng, Linshan Tan, Yanwei Sun, Yanjuan Wu, Zheng Duan, Yu Xu, Chao Gao
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Publicado:	Elsevier 2021
Materias:	Climate change Anthropogenic activities Vegetation change Greening Geodetector China Ecology QH540-549.5
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:5ed7fe08f70d4600b17166d9ec5298ab2021-12-01T04:50:28ZImpacts of climate change and anthropogenic activities on vegetation change: Evidence from typical areas in China1470-160X10.1016/j.ecolind.2021.107648https://doaj.org/article/5ed7fe08f70d4600b17166d9ec5298ab2021-07-01T00:00:00Zhttp://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1470160X21003137https://doaj.org/toc/1470-160XUnderstanding the interactions of climate-vegetation and human-vegetation has been a critical issue and increasingly attracting attention from scientific community in the field of global change research. This study investigated the heterogeneous impacts of climate change and anthropogenic activities on vegetation change by applying the trend analysis and Geodetector approach. The spatial and temporal patterns of MODIS NDVI and LAI during 2003–2017 were firstly examined in China. We then quantified the contribution and interactions effects of climatic factors (temperature and precipitation) and anthropogenic factors (population, gross domestic product and other four categories of forestry investment) on vegetation change in five typical areas of China. Both NDVI and LAI across China demonstrated a significant increasing trend over the past two decades. However, the eastern developmental regions such as Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei Region and Yangtze River Delta exhibited a decreasing trend due to fast urbanization. Socio-economical inputs (the explanatory power of forestry investment > 40%, the range of explanatory power is 0 to 100%) were identified as the dominant driving forces of vegetation change for the most of study areas. Precipitation was the most important natural influencing factor of vegetation change. We also found that the interactions between forestry investment and other factors presented much greater explanatory power on vegetation change than a single factor. Our research highlights that the afforestation program in China during the past several decades plays an important role in contributing to vegetation greening across the country. Greening and degradation, however, are largely related to landscape context, which could be due to natural change and anthropogenic impact. To maintain high levels of forests, conserving the vegetation is more important than increasing the economic development.Kaiyuan ZhengLinshan TanYanwei SunYanjuan WuZheng DuanYu XuChao GaoElsevierarticleClimate changeAnthropogenic activitiesVegetation changeGreeningGeodetectorChinaEcologyQH540-549.5ENEcological Indicators, Vol 126, Iss , Pp 107648- (2021)
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topic	Climate change Anthropogenic activities Vegetation change Greening Geodetector China Ecology QH540-549.5
spellingShingle	Climate change Anthropogenic activities Vegetation change Greening Geodetector China Ecology QH540-549.5 Kaiyuan Zheng Linshan Tan Yanwei Sun Yanjuan Wu Zheng Duan Yu Xu Chao Gao Impacts of climate change and anthropogenic activities on vegetation change: Evidence from typical areas in China
description	Understanding the interactions of climate-vegetation and human-vegetation has been a critical issue and increasingly attracting attention from scientific community in the field of global change research. This study investigated the heterogeneous impacts of climate change and anthropogenic activities on vegetation change by applying the trend analysis and Geodetector approach. The spatial and temporal patterns of MODIS NDVI and LAI during 2003–2017 were firstly examined in China. We then quantified the contribution and interactions effects of climatic factors (temperature and precipitation) and anthropogenic factors (population, gross domestic product and other four categories of forestry investment) on vegetation change in five typical areas of China. Both NDVI and LAI across China demonstrated a significant increasing trend over the past two decades. However, the eastern developmental regions such as Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei Region and Yangtze River Delta exhibited a decreasing trend due to fast urbanization. Socio-economical inputs (the explanatory power of forestry investment > 40%, the range of explanatory power is 0 to 100%) were identified as the dominant driving forces of vegetation change for the most of study areas. Precipitation was the most important natural influencing factor of vegetation change. We also found that the interactions between forestry investment and other factors presented much greater explanatory power on vegetation change than a single factor. Our research highlights that the afforestation program in China during the past several decades plays an important role in contributing to vegetation greening across the country. Greening and degradation, however, are largely related to landscape context, which could be due to natural change and anthropogenic impact. To maintain high levels of forests, conserving the vegetation is more important than increasing the economic development.
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author	Kaiyuan Zheng Linshan Tan Yanwei Sun Yanjuan Wu Zheng Duan Yu Xu Chao Gao
author_facet	Kaiyuan Zheng Linshan Tan Yanwei Sun Yanjuan Wu Zheng Duan Yu Xu Chao Gao
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title	Impacts of climate change and anthropogenic activities on vegetation change: Evidence from typical areas in China
title_short	Impacts of climate change and anthropogenic activities on vegetation change: Evidence from typical areas in China
title_full	Impacts of climate change and anthropogenic activities on vegetation change: Evidence from typical areas in China
title_fullStr	Impacts of climate change and anthropogenic activities on vegetation change: Evidence from typical areas in China
title_full_unstemmed	Impacts of climate change and anthropogenic activities on vegetation change: Evidence from typical areas in China
title_sort	impacts of climate change and anthropogenic activities on vegetation change: evidence from typical areas in china
publisher	Elsevier
publishDate	2021
url	https://doaj.org/article/5ed7fe08f70d4600b17166d9ec5298ab
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Impacts of climate change and anthropogenic activities on vegetation change: Evidence from typical areas in China

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