The relationships between vegetation dynamics and environmental factors on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau: A review of research progress and prospect

doi:10.13745/j.esf.sf.2020.10.20

Abstract

Abstract:

The Qinghai-Tibet plateau is one of the regions most sensitive to climate change both in China and in the world at large. In recent years, local vegetation has been under the dual pressure from climate change and human activities. Its physiological and ecological characteristics, in response to climate change and human interference, were analyzed in this paper based on literature research, and the impact of change in vegetation coverage on soil physical and chemical properties were quantitatively summerized based on meta-analysis. On this basis, this paper reviewed the research scales and methods in studying the relationship between vegetation and environmental factors on the Qinghai-Tibet plateau and summerized the results as the follows: 1) Natural factors such as temperature, precipitation and radiation, and human activities such as grazing, farming and road construction, significantly affected the carbon exchange, water use efficiency, elemental content and distribution pattern, phenological period and diversity of vegetation. The change of vegetation also affected the water heat exchange, hydrological process and physical and chemical properties of soil. 2) In the process of vegetation degradation, the changes in vegetation coverage from high to medium had a stronger negative effect on the physical and chemical properties of soil than changes from medium to low; therefore, more attention should be paid to vegetation protection in the high coverage area. 3) Previous researches mainly focused on the impact of a single factor and a single scale. In future, more attention should be paid to multi-factor coupling by considering the intra- and out-of-domain effects on the ecosystem. Besides, multi-scale comparison and scale-effect research should be conducted to explore the ecological restoration strategies and climate change coping mechanisms at different scales based on data compiled through cooperation and data sharing. To implement further research, it is also necessary to integrate multi-source, multi-point, long-term series monitoring data to establish an observational network covering the whole Qinghai-Tibet plateau. In addition, data sharing should be strengthened to save research resources while reducing damage caused by unnecessary repeated sampling to the fragile plateau ecosystem. The systematic review of the relationships between vegetation and environmental factors could be applied to the planning, design and monitoring of ecological protection and restoration projects, so as to develop the ecological protection and restoration technology and management system suitable for the Qinghai-Tibet plateau region, and also provide support for policy-making in this region.

Key words: vegetation dynamics, climate change, soil properties, Qinghai-Tibet Plateau

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WANG Jun, ZHANG Xiao, GAO Yan. The relationships between vegetation dynamics and environmental factors on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau: A review of research progress and prospect[J]. Earth Science Frontiers, 2021, 28(4): 70-82.

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	全域	GIMMS NDVI MODIS NDVI SPOT-VEG LANDSAT TM/ETM+	植被光谱模型反演植被生物物理参量,获取分布格局长时间序列NDVI重建(最大值合成法、阈值法、均值迭代滤波法等) 监测序列变化可以用到线性回归法、影像差异法等应用相关分析法、收敛交叉映射法等方法应用残差分析法量化人类活动的影响等
中小尺度	样点	样方调查室内分析	生物量获取多采用标准收获法土壤理化性质均采用土壤学常规实验方法测定
		控制实验	人工增温增水试验多采用被动式增温方法(开顶式气室法)
	流域	放牧试验	对照实验、群落调查、标准收获法,随机区组设计等

研究尺度		数据来源	主要分析方法
大尺度	样带	样方调查	按退化梯度设置样地,分析地带性变化
	样带	遥感数据	结合样方调查、统计原理和跨区域生态样带实际测定相结合的方法分析生物量变化
	全域	GIMMS NDVI MODIS NDVI SPOT-VEG LANDSAT TM/ETM+	植被光谱模型反演植被生物物理参量,获取分布格局长时间序列NDVI重建(最大值合成法、阈值法、均值迭代滤波法等) 监测序列变化可以用到线性回归法、影像差异法等应用相关分析法、收敛交叉映射法等方法应用残差分析法量化人类活动的影响等
中小尺度	样点	样方调查室内分析	生物量获取多采用标准收获法土壤理化性质均采用土壤学常规实验方法测定
		控制实验	人工增温增水试验多采用被动式增温方法(开顶式气室法)
	流域	放牧试验	对照实验、群落调查、标准收获法,随机区组设计等