Vegetation dynamics and their response to hydroclimatic factors in the Tarim River Basin, China

Ecohydrology

Volumn 6, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 927-936

  Wang, Yanfang ^a,b   Shen, Yanjun ^a   Chen, Yaning ^c   Guo, Ying ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^c XINJIANG INSTITUTE OF ECOLOGY AND GEOGRAPHY   (China)

Author keywords

Anthropogenic activities; Climate change; Dryland; Gray relation analysis; Mann Kendall trend test; NDVI; Oasis; Riparian vegetation

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC ACTIVITY; DRYLAND; GRAY RELATION ANALYSIS; MANN-KENDALL TRENDS; NDVI; OASIS; RIPARIAN VEGETATION;

ARID REGIONS; CLIMATE CHANGE; CORRELATION METHODS; DYNAMICS; ECOLOGY; FLOOD CONTROL; LANDFORMS; WATER SUPPLY; WATERSHEDS;

VEGETATION;

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; ARID REGION; CLIMATE CHANGE; HUMAN ACTIVITY; HYDROMETEOROLOGY; NDVI; OASIS; SEMIARID REGION; VEGETATION COVER; VEGETATION DYNAMICS;

CHINA; TARIM RIVER; XINJIANG UYGUR;

EID: 84890240218     PISSN: 19360584     EISSN: 19360592     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/eco.1255     Document Type: Article

References (49)

1. Acreman MC, Blake JR, Booker DJ, Harding RJ, Reynard N, Mountford JO, Stratford CJ. 2009. A simple framework for evaluating regional wetland ecohydrological response to climate change with case studies from Great Britain. Ecohydrology 2: 1-17. DOI: 10.1002/Eco.37.
2. Apaydin H, Sonmez FK, Yildirim YE. 2004. Spatial interpolation techniques for climate data in the GAP region in Turkey. Climate Research 28: 31-40. DOI: 10.3354/cr028031.
3. Beck HE, McVicar TR, van Dijk AIJM, Schellekens J, de Jeu RAM, Bruijnzeel LA. 2011. Global evaluation of four AVHRR-NDVI data sets: intercomparison and assessment against Landsat imagery. Remote Sensing of Environment 115: 2547-2563. DOI 10.1016/j.rse.2011.05.012.
4. Büntgen U, Frank D, Liebhold A, Johnson D, Carrer M, Urbinati C, Grabner M, Nicolussi K, Levanic T, Esper J. 2009. Three centuries of insect outbreaks across the European Alps. New Phytologist 182: 929-941. DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-8137.2009.02825.x.
5. Chen YN, Xu ZX. 2005. Plausible impact of global climate change on water resources in the Tarim River Basin. Science in China Series D-Earth Sciences 48: 65-73. DOI: 10.1360/04yd0539.
6. Chen YN, Pang ZH, Chen YP, Li WH, Xu CC, Hao XM, Huang X, Huang TM, Ye ZX. 2008. Response of riparian vegetation to water-table changes in the lower reaches of Tarim River, Xinjiang Uygur, China. Hydrogeology Journal 16: 1371-1379. DOI: 10.1007/s10040-008-0306-1.
7. DeFries R, Bounoua L. 2004. Consequences of land use change for ecosystem services: a future unlike the past. GeoJournal 61: 345-351. DOI: 10.1007/s10708-004-5051-y.
8. Deng JL. 1982. The control problems of Grey system. System and Control Letters 5: 288-294. DOI: 10.1016/S0167-6911(82)80025-X.
9. D'Odorico P, Porporato A, 2006. Dryland Ecohydrology. Springer-Verlag: New York.
10. Domrös M, Peng G. 1988. The Climate of China. Springer-Verlag: New York.
11. Fang JY, Piao SL, He JS, Ma WH. 2003. Vegetation activity is boosting in the past 20years in China. Science in China: Series C 33: 554-565.(in Chinese).
12. Fu CY, Zheng JS, Zhao JM, Xu WD. 2001. Application of grey relational analysis for corrosion failure of oil tubes. Corrosion Science 43: 881-889. DOI: 10.1016/S0010-938X(00)00089-5.
13. Gitelson AA, Kogan F, Zakarin E, Spivak L, Lebed L. 1998. Using AVHRR data for quantitative estimation of vegetation conditions: calibration and validation. Synergistic Use of Multisensor Data for Land Processes 22: 673-676. DOI: 10.1016/S0273-1177(97)01129-0.
14. Gomez-Mendoza L, Galicia L, Cuevas-Fernandez ML, Magana V, Gomez G, Palacio-Prieto JL. 2008. Assessing onset and length of greening period in six vegetation types in Oaxaca, Mexico, using NDVI-precipitation relationships. International Journal of Biometeorology 52: 511-520. DOI: 10.1007/s00484-008-0147-6.
15. Hamed KH. 2008. Trend detection in hydrologic data: the Mann-Kendall trend test under the scaling hypothesis. Journal of Hydrology 349: 350-363. DOI: 10.1016/j.jhydrol.2007.11.009.
16. Hao XM, Chen YN, Li WH, Guo B, Zhao RF. 2010. Hydraulic lift in Populus euphratica Oliv. from the desert riparian vegetation of the Tarim River Basin. Journal of Arid Environments 74: 905-911. DOI 10.1016/j.jaridenv.2010.01.005.
17. Hill MJ, Donald GE. 2003. Estimating spatio-temporal patterns of agricultural productivity in fragmented landscapes using AVHRR NDVI time series. Remote Sensing of Environment 84: 367-384. DOI: 10.1016/S0034-4257(02)00128-1.
18. Ivanov VY, Bras RL, Vivoni ER. 2008. Vegetation-hydrology dynamics in complex terrain of semiarid areas: 2. Energy-water controls of vegetation spatiotemporal dynamics and topographic niches of favorability. Water Resources Research 44: W03430. DOI: 10.1029/2006WR005595.
19. Iwsaki H. 2006. Impact of interannual variability of meteorological parameters on vegetation activity over Mongolia. Journal of the Meteorological Society of Japan 84: 745-762. DOI: 10.2151/jmsj.84.745.
20. Li ZT, Kafatos M. 2000. Interannual variability of vegetation in the United States and its relation to El Nino/Southern Oscillation. Remote Sensing of Environment 71: 239-247. DOI: 10.1016/S0034-4257(99)00034-6.
21. Lioubimtseva E. 2004. Climate change in arid environments: revisiting the past to understand the future. Progress in Physical Geography 28: 502-530. DOI: 10.1191/0309133304pp422oa.
22. Liu QQ, Singh VP, Xiang H. 2005. Plot erosion model using gray relational analysis method. Journal of Hydrologic Engineering 10: 288-294. DOI: 10.1061/(Asce)1084-0699(2005)10:4(288).
23. Ma MG, Dong LX, Wang XM. 2003. Study on the dynamically monitoring and simulating the vegetation cover in northwest China in the past 21 years. Journal of Glaciology and Geocryology 25: 232-236. DOI: 100020240 (2003) 0220232205. (in Chinese).
24. Myneni RB, Keeling CD, Tucker CJ, Asrar G, Nemani RR. 1997. Increased plant growth in the northern high latitudes from 1981 to 1991. Nature 386: 698-702. DOI: 10.1038/386698a0.
25. Noy-Meir I. 1973. Desert ecosystems. I. Environment and producers. Annual Review of Ecology and Systematics 4: 25-52. DOI: 10.1146/annurev.es.04.110173.000325.
26. Roerink GJ, Menenti M, Soepboer W, Su Z. 2003. Assessment of climate impact on vegetation dynamics by using remote sensing. Physics and Chemistry of the Earth 28: 103-109. DOI: 10.1016/S1474-7065(03)00011-1.
27. Shafroth PB, Stromberg JC, Patten DT. 2002. Riparian vegetation response to altered disturbance and stress regimes. Ecological Applications 12: 107-123. DOI: 10.1890/1051-0761(2002)012[0107: RVRTAD]2.0.CO;2.
28. Shen YJ, Chen, YN. 2010. Global perspective on hydrology, water balance, and water resources management in arid basins. Hydrological Processes 24: 129-135. DOI:10.1002/hyp.7428.
29. Shen YJ, Liu CM, Liu M, Zeng Y, Tian CY. 2010. Change in pan evaporation over the past 50years in the arid region of China. Hydrological Processes 24: 225-231. DOI: 10.1002/hyp.7435.
30. Shi YF, Shen YP, Kang E, Li DL, Ding YJ, Zhang GW, Hu RJ. 2007. Recent and future climate change in northwest China. Climatic Change 80: 379-393. DOI: 10.1007/s10584-006-9121-7.
31. Sitch S, Smith B, Prentice IC, Arneth A, Bondeau A, Cramer W, Kaplan JO, Levis S, Lucht W, Sykes MT, Thonicke K, Venevsky S. 2003. Evaluation of ecosystem dynamics, plant geography and terrestrial carbon cycling in the LPJ dynamic global vegetation model. Global Change Biology 9: 161-185. DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2486.2003.00569.x.
32. Tang QC, Chen, HY. 1992. Water resources and oasis construction in Tarim Basin. Chinese Geographical Science 2: 173-182. DOI: CNKI:SUN:ZDKX.0.1992-02-007.
33. Theurillat J-P, Guisan A. 2001. Potential impacts of climate change on vegetation in the European Alps: a review. Climatic Change 50: 77-109. DOI: 10.1023/A:1010632015572.
34. Tietjen B, Jeltsch F, Zehe E, Classen N, Groengroeft A, Schiffers K, Oldeland J. 2010. Effects of climate change on the coupled dynamics of water and vegetation in drylands. Ecohydrology 3: 226-237. DOI: 10.1002/eco.70.
35. Toreti A, Desiato F, Fioravanti G, Perconti W. 2010. Seasonal temperatures over Italy and their relationship with low-frequency atmospheric circulation patterns. Climatic Change 99: 211-227. DOI: 10.1007/s10584-009-9640-0.
36. Tucker CJ, Pinzon JE, Brown ME. 2004. Global inventory modeling and mapping studies, NA94apr15b.n11-VIg, 2.0, Global Land Cover Facility, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, 04/15/1994.
37. Upchurch GR, Otto-Bliesner BL, Scotese C. 1998. Vegetation-atmosphere interactions and their role in global warming during the latest Cretaceous. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological Sciences 353: 97-111. DOI: 10.1098/rstb.1998.0194.
38. Walther GR, Post E, Convey P, Menzel A, Parmesan C, Beebee TJC, Fromentin JM, Hoegh-Guldberg O, Bairlein F. 2002. Ecological responses to recent climate change. Nature 416: 389-395. DOI: 10.1038/416389a.
39. Wang XH, Piao SL, Ciais P, Li JS, Friedlingstein P, Koven C, Chen AP. 2011. Spring temperature change and its implication in the change of vegetation growth in North America from 1982 to 2006. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 108: 1240-1245. DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1014425108.
40. Weiss JL, Gutzler DS, Coonrod JEA, Dahm CN. 2004. Long-term vegetation monitoring with NDVI in a diverse semi-arid setting, central New Mexico, USA. Journal of Arid Environments 58: 249-272. DOI: 10.1016/j.jaridenv.2003.07.001.
41. Williams CA, Albertson JD. 2006. Dynamical effects of the statistical structure of annual rainfall on dryland vegetation. Global Change Biology 12: 777-792. DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2486.2006.01111.x.
42. Wu J, Tang DH. 2010. The influence of water conveyances on restoration of vegetation to the lower reaches of Tarim River. Environmental Earth Sciences 59: 967-975. DOI 10.1007/s12665-009-0090-9.
43. Xu JH, Chen YN, Lu F, Li WH, Zhang LJ, Hong YL. 2011. The nonlinear trend of runoff and its response to climate change in the Aksu River, western China. International Journal of Climatology 31: 687-695. DOI: 10.1002/Joc.2110.
44. Xu ZX, Liu ZF, Fu GB, Chen YN. 2010. Trends of major hydroclimatic variables in the Tarim River basin during the past 50 years. Journal of Arid Environments 74: 256-267. DOI: 10.1016/j.jaridenv.2009.08.014.
45. Yang X, Liu Z, Mang F, White PD, Wang X. 2006. Hydrological changes and land degradation in the southern and eastern Tarim Basin, Xinjiang, China. Land Degradation & Development 17: 381-392. DOI: 10.1002/Ldr.744.
46. Zeng B, Yang TB. 2008. Impacts of climate warming on vegetation in Qaidam Area from 1990 to 2003. Environmental Monitoring and Assessment 144: 403-417. DOI: 10.1007/s10661-007-0003-x.
47. Zhang XY, Goldberg M, Tarpley D, Friedl MA, Morisette J, Kogan F, Yu YY. 2010. Drought-induced vegetation stress in southwestern North America. Environmental Research Letters 5: 024008. DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/5/2/024008.
48. Zhang YC, Yu JJ, Wang P, Fu GB. 2011. Vegetation responses to integrated water management in the Ejina basin, northwest China. Hydrological Processes 25. DOI: 10.1002/hyp.8073.
49. Zhou LM, Tucker CJ, Kaufmann RK, Slayback D, Shabanov NV, Myneni RB. 2001. Variations in northern vegetation activity inferred from satellite data of vegetation index during 1981 to 1999. Journal of Geophysical Research-Atmospheres 106: 20069-20083. DOI: 10.1029/2000JD000115.