Temporal and Spatial Variation in Vegetation Coverage and Its Response to Climatic Change in Marshes of Sanjiang Plain, China
Open Access
- 9 December 2022
- journal article
- research article
- Published by MDPI AG in Atmosphere
- Vol. 13 (12), 2077
- https://doi.org/10.3390/atmos13122077
Abstract
Sanjiang Plain is the most extensive marsh distribution region in China. Marshes in this region can protect biodiversity, regulate climate, and provide habitats for wild animals and plants. The normalized difference vegetation index (NDVI) is a crucial indicator of vegetation coverage, which may reflect ecosystem structure and functional features. Clarifying the spatiotemporal change of marsh coverage and its climatic drivers is vital for observing and predicting vegetation change in Sanjiang Plain. Using meteorological dataand MODIS NDVI data from 2000 to 2020, we analyzed the spatiotemporal variation in marsh vegetation coverage and climatic change effects in Sanjiang Plain. We found that the growing season vegetation NDVI of marsh increased significantly at a rate of 0.011/decade, indicating that the marsh vegetation growth has obviously improved during the past 21 years. Furthermore, we found that the increase of minimum (Tmin) and maximum (Tmax) temperature in July can significantly promote the marsh plant growth, and increasing nighttime Tmin has a stronger impact on promoting the growth than increasing daytime Tmax in this month. In addition, the increase of daytime Tmax in August can promote the marsh vegetation growth, whereas the increasing precipitation in August was unfavorable for the growth in Sanjiang Plain.Funding Information
- National Natural Science Foundation of China (41971065)
- Natural Science Foundation of Jilin Province (20210101104JC)
- Key Research Program of Frontier Sciences, CAS (ZDBS-LY-7019)
- Youth Innovation Promotion Association, CAS (2019235)
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