Impacts of climate extremes on ecosystem metrics in southwest China

The Ongoing Greening in Southwest China despite Severe Droughts and Drying Trends

Remote Sensing ◽

10.3390/rs13173374 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 13 (17) ◽

pp. 3374

Author(s):

Xin Chen ◽

Tiexi Chen ◽

Qingyun Yan ◽

Jiangtao Cai ◽

Renjie Guo ◽

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Keyword(s):

Vegetation Change ◽

Vegetation Index ◽

Southwest China ◽

Vegetation Indices ◽

Climate Extremes ◽

Global Scale ◽

Area Index ◽

Huge Impact ◽

Increasing Trends

Vegetation greening, which refers to the interannual increasing trends of vegetation greenness, has been widely found on the regional to global scale. Meanwhile, climate extremes, especially several drought, significantly damage vegetation. The Southwest China (SWC) region experienced massive drought from 2009 to 2012, which severely damaged vegetation and had a huge impact on agricultural systems and life. However, whether these extremes have significantly influenced long-term (multiple decades) vegetation change is unclear. Using the latest remote sensing-based records, including leaf area index (LAI) and gross primary productivity (GPP) for 1982–2016 and enhanced vegetation index (EVI) for 2001–2019, drought events of 2009–2012 only leveled off the greening (increasing in vegetation indices and GPP) temporally and long-term greening was maintained. Meanwhile, drying trends were found to unexpectedly coexist with greening.

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Risks to water resources and development of a management strategy in the river basins of the Hengduan Mountains, Southwest China

Environmental Science Water Research & Technology ◽

10.1039/c9ew00883g ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 6 (3) ◽

pp. 656-678 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Ali Mokhtar ◽

Hongming He ◽

Hongfei Zhao ◽

Soksamnang Keo ◽

Chunyu Bai ◽

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Keyword(s):

Water Resources ◽

Water Resource ◽

Human Activities ◽

Management Strategy ◽

Southwest China ◽

Climate Extremes ◽

River Basins ◽

Hengduan Mountains

The purpose of this study is to disclose the water resource risks influenced by climate extremes and human activities and therefore to propose a management strategy for river basins in the Hengduan Mountains, Southwest China.

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Using species distribution modeling to improve conservation of medicinal plants in Southwest China

Planta Medica ◽

10.1055/s-0036-1596158 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 81 (S 01) ◽

pp. S1-S381

Author(s):

B Liu ◽

F Li ◽

Z Guo ◽

L Hong ◽

W Huang ◽

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Keyword(s):

Medicinal Plants ◽

Species Distribution ◽

Southwest China ◽

Species Distribution Modeling ◽

Distribution Modeling

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A Permeable Asphalt Pavement Decision Strategy Based on the Rainfall Characteristics in Guizhou, Southwest China

CICTP 2020 ◽

10.1061/9780784483053.153 ◽

2020 ◽

Author(s):

ShiHai Zhao ◽

Zhe Huang ◽

Zhe Li ◽

YiMeng Liu ◽

JiuPeng Zhang ◽

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Keyword(s):

Southwest China ◽

Asphalt Pavement ◽

Decision Strategy ◽

Rainfall Characteristics

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Prince Henri d'Orleans (1867–1901): geographical and botanical exploration between inner Asia and southwest China

Journal of the Society for the Bibliography of Natural History ◽

10.3366/jsbnh.1978.8.4.399 ◽

1978 ◽

Vol 8 (4) ◽

pp. 399-399

Author(s):

WILLIAM GARDENER

Keyword(s):

Southwest China ◽

Western China ◽

Left Bank ◽

Inner Asia ◽

Botanical Exploration ◽

Western Yunnan ◽

Westerly Direction ◽

Chinese Province ◽

The Right ◽

North Western

Prince Henri d'Orleans, precluded by French law from serving his country in the profession of arms, had his attention turned early towards exploration. In 1889, accompanied by the experienced traveller Gabriel Bonvalet, he set out from Paris to reach Indo-China overland by way of Central Asia, Tibet and western and south western China. The journey made contributions in the problems of the whereabouts of Lap Nor and the configuration of the then unexplored northern plateau of Tibet; and in botany it produced some species new to science. The party reached Indo-China in 1890. In 1895, having organised an expedition better equipped for topographical survey and for investigations in the fields of natural history and ethnography, Prince Henri set out from Hanoi with the intention of exploring the Mekong through the Chinese province of Yunnan. After proceeding up the left bank of the Salween for a brief part of its course and then alternating between the right and left banks of the Mekong as far up as Tzeku, the party found it advisable to enter Tibet in a north westerly direction through the province of Chamdo and instead crossed the south eastern extremity of the country, the Zayul, by a difficult track which led them to the country of the Hkamti Shans in present day Upper Burma, and thence to India completing a journey of 2000 miles, "1500 of which had been previously untrodden" (Prince Henri). West of the Mekong, the journey established that the Salween, which some geographers had claimed took its rise in or near north western Yunnan, in fact rose well north in Tibet, and that, contrary to previous opinions, the principal headwater of the Irrawaddy rose no further north than latitude 28°30'. Botanical collections were confined to Yunnan, where the tracks permitted mule transport, and they produced a number of species new to science and extended the range of distribution of species already known.

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