Evidence of vegetation greening benefitting from the afforestation initiatives in China

L Zheng, J Lu, H Liu, X Chen… - Geo-Spatial Information …, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
Recent research shows that China is experiencing significant greening, with afforestation
initiatives being the main cause. Quantitative calculation of vegetation change influencing …

Dynamic variations of terrestrial ecological drought and propagation analysis with meteorological drought across the mainland China

F Wang, H Lai, Y Li, K Feng, Q Tian, W Guo… - Science of the Total …, 2023 - Elsevier
Ecological drought is a complex comprehensive process in which the water conditions for
normal growth and development of vegetation are changed due to insufficient water supply …

[HTML][HTML] Sustaining the Pearl River: A Critical Review of Changes in Fluvial Geomorphological Processes and the Driving Forces in the Pearl River Basin

H Ou, S Cai, W Fan, J Qiu, X Mu, T Zhou, X Yang… - Water, 2024 - mdpi.com
The Pearl River is one of China's large rivers, the second-largest river and the fourth-longest
river in China. Its unique geography, landform, and climate conditions create unique fluvial …

Quantifying the direct effects of long-term dynamic land use intensity on vegetation change and its interacted effects with economic development and climate change …

F Shen, L Yang, L Zhang, M Guo, H Huang… - Journal of environmental …, 2023 - Elsevier
Vegetation change reflects sensitive responses of ecosystem environment to global climate
change as well as land use. It is well known that land use type and its transformation affect …

Long-term vegetation phenology changes and response to multi-scale meteorological drought on the Loess Plateau, China

C Ge, S Sun, R Yao, P Sun, M Li, Y Bian - Journal of Hydrology, 2022 - Elsevier
Investigating the response of vegetation phenology to meteorological drought can provide
insight into the feedback mechanisms of ecosystems to environmental and climate change …

Integrated effects of meteorological factors, edaphic moisture, evapotranspiration, and leaf area index on the net primary productivity of Winter wheat− Summer maize …

Y Han, H Lu, D Qiao - Field Crops Research, 2023 - Elsevier
Net primary productivity (NPP) assumes a pivotal role in the realm of plant growth, organic
matter production, and carbon cycling. Nevertheless, the mechanism underlying the …

Terrestrial ecological drought dynamics and its response to atmospheric circulation factors in the North China Plain

F Wang, H Lai, Y Li, K Feng, Q Tian, Z Zhang, D Di… - Atmospheric …, 2023 - Elsevier
Ecological drought is a natural disaster caused by the shortage of water supply, which can
lead to many problems such as the reduction of vegetation greenness, shrinkage of water …

An evaluation framework for quantifying vegetation loss and recovery in response to meteorological drought based on SPEI and NDVI

C Wu, L Zhong, PJF Yeh, Z Gong, W Lv, B Chen… - Science of the Total …, 2024 - Elsevier
Drought affects vegetation growth to a large extent. Understanding the dynamic changes of
vegetation during drought is of great significance for agricultural and ecological …

Biophysical controls on water use efficiency of six plantations under different sky conditions

P Liu, X Tong, P Meng, J Zhang, J Li, J Zhang… - Agricultural and Forest …, 2022 - Elsevier
Ecosystem water use efficiency (WUE) is an indicator characterizing carbon-water coupling
of the terrestrial ecosystems. The increasing diffuse radiation enhances carbon assimilation …

Capturing information about the nonlinear impact between droughts and vegetation dynamics based on nonlinear dynamical system theory

Y Zhao, Z Zhou, Z Cao, Y Zou, Y Wang - Journal of Hydrology, 2024 - Elsevier
Understanding the response of vegetation dynamics to droughts at regional scales is of
great importance to reveal the behavior mechanism of terrestrial ecosystems. Under the …