Vulnerability of forest vegetation to anthropogenic climate change in China

Wan, Ji-Zhong; Wang, Chun-Jing; QingBiao, Hong; Liu, Ran; Zhang, Zhixiang

doi:10.1016/j.scitotenv.2017.10.065

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“…Though each plant species could have had different levels of vulnerability to climatic factors, in the overall trend among vegetation types, coniferous forests had higher vulnerability than others. In line with that, Wan et al [50] reported the high vulnerability of temperate needleleaf forests among a wide variety of forest types in China. Moreover, several authors expect deciduous trees to be less vulnerable to climate change than conifer species [51][52][53].…”

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Understanding the Critical Impact Path on Vegetation Growth under Climate Extremes and Human Influence

Kim

Song

Lee

2019

Forests

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Reduced vegetation growth ultimately induces degradation of the ecosystem and CO 2 sequestration. Multiple risks can affect vegetation, but climate change and human influence have been particularly known to be major risks for deteriorating the ecosystem. However, there is limited information illustrating comprehensive impact pathways that consider both climatic and human impacts on vegetation. To promote optimum decision-making, information is required to elucidate complex cause-and-effect pathways in order to determine how various impacts are related and which ones are more important. Hence, we identified impact pathways affecting enhanced vegetation index (EVI) regarding climate and human factors by revealing a causal network using the Bayesian network approach. Vulnerable vegetation types and the spatial range of impact were evaluated based on the identified network by analyzing temporal changes in annual average EVI, human-induced land conversion, and multiple climate extremes from 2002 to 2014 on Jeju Island, South Korea. The results indicated the high vulnerability of coniferous forests compared with mixed and deciduous forests were able to elucidate the major impact paths, including human-induced land conversion at lower elevation, length of frost, degree of heat, and general intensity of wetness (Pearson's r = 0.58). Existing policies in the study site have been insufficient to avoid the major paths influencing vegetation state. This study offers insights into comprehensive impact paths in order to support effective decision-making for nature conservation.

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Understanding the Critical Impact Path on Vegetation Growth under Climate Extremes and Human Influence

Kim

Song

Lee

2019

Forests

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“…As shown in Fig. 3, PCAs often included areas outside the network of established nature reserves, indicating that ex-situ conservation or the establishment of new protected areas with less vulnerability to predicted climate change may be appropriate for species currently reliant on nature reserves (Wang et al 2016;Wan et al 2018). For instance, Cuiyunlanggubai and Jinyunshan appear to be suitable experimental areas for future research on M. pasquieri and Baishuijiang and Cuiyunlanggubai are likely to be key nature reserves for ex-situ conservation for A. sinensis.…”

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“…The delineation of PCAs may be used for providing in-situ and ex-situ conservation measures for PSESP populations and habitats. Monitoring of environmental variation is essential for successful in-situ and ex-situ conservation management of PSESP (Wade et al 2016, Volis 2016Wan et al 2018). However, limits to this study include a need for more detailed empirical data collection.…”

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Planning priority conservation areas under climate change for six plant species with extremely small populations in China

QingBiao¹,

Wang²,

Zhang³

2018

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The concept of Plant Species with Extremely Small Populations (PSESP) has been employed to guide conservation of threatened plant species in China. Climate change has a high potential to threaten PSESP. As a result, it is necessary to integrate climate change effects on PSESP into conservation planning in China. Here, ecological niche modelling is used to project current and future habitat distributions of six PSESP in China under climate change scenarios and conservation planning software is applied to identify priority conservation areas (PCAs) for these PSESP based on habitat distributions. These results were used to provide proposals for in-situ and ex-situ conservation measures directed at PSESP. It was found that annual precipitation was important for habitat distributions for all six PSESP (with the percentage contribution to habitat distributions ranging from 18.1 % to 74.9 %) and non-climatic variables including soil and altitude have a large effect on habitat suitability of PSESP. Large quantities of PCAs occurred within some provincial regions for these six PSESP (e.g. Sichuan and Jilin for the PSESP Cathaya argyrophylla, Taxus cuspidata, Annamocarya sinensis and Madhuca pasquieri), indicating that these are likely to be appropriate areas for in-situ and ex-situ conservation measures directed at these PSESP. Those nature reserves with large quantities of PCAs were identified as promising sites for in-situ conservation measures of PSESP; such reserves include Yangzie and Dongdongtinghu for C. argyrophylla, Songhuajiangsanhu and Changbaishan for T. cuspidata and Shiwandashanshuiyuanlian for Tsoongiodendron odorum. These results suggest RESEARCH ARTICLE Launched to accelerate biodiversity conservation A peer-reviewed open-access journalHong Qu et al. / Nature Conservation 25: 89-106 (2018) 1 that existing seed banks and botanical gardens occurring within identified PCAs should allocate more resources and space to ex-situ conservation of PSESP. In addition, there should be additional botanical gardens established for ex-situ conservation of PSESP in PCAs outside existing nature reserves. To address the risk of negative effects of climate change on PSESP, it is necessary to integrate in-situ and ex-situ conservation as well as climate change monitoring in PSESP conservation planning.

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“…(Li et al, 2016;Duveiller et al, 2018;He et al, 2018). Climate resources such as light, heat, and water are the basis of vegetation growth, and a vegetation variation is a key indicator to measure a regional environment and a climate change (Li et al, 2017;Zewdie et al, 2017;Wan et al, 2018). The interaction between the climate change and the vegetation has aroused widespread interest of scholars and become a research hotspot in recent years (Huete, 2016;Seidl et al, 2017).…”

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Influence of Variations of Hydrothermal Conditions on Normalized Difference Vegetation Index in Typical Temperature Zones Along the East Coast of China

He¹,

Zhen

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Front. Earth Sci.

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Vulnerability of forest vegetation to anthropogenic climate change in China

Cited by 73 publications

References 69 publications

Understanding the Critical Impact Path on Vegetation Growth under Climate Extremes and Human Influence

Understanding the Critical Impact Path on Vegetation Growth under Climate Extremes and Human Influence

Planning priority conservation areas under climate change for six plant species with extremely small populations in China

Influence of Variations of Hydrothermal Conditions on Normalized Difference Vegetation Index in Typical Temperature Zones Along the East Coast of China

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