Mulching Practices Improve Soil Moisture and Enzyme Activity in Drylands, Increasing Potato Yield
Wenhuan Song,
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Fanxiang Han,
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Zhengyu Bao
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Agronomy,
Journal Year:
2024,
Volume and Issue:
14(5), P. 1077 - 1077
Published: May 19, 2024
Mulch
is
an
important
measure
for
improving
agricultural
productivity
in
many
semiarid
regions
of
the
world.
However,
impacts
various
mulching
materials
on
soil
hydrothermal
characteristics,
enzyme
activity,
and
potato
yield
fields
have
not
been
comprehensively
explored.
Thus,
a
two-growing-season
field
experiment
(2020–2021)
with
four
treatments
(SSM,
straw
strip
mulching;
PMP,
plastic
film
large
ridge;
PMF,
double
ridge-furrow
full
CK,
no
conventional
planting
as
control)
was
conducted
to
analyze
activities
Loess
Plateau
Northwest
China.
The
results
indicated
that
practices
had
positive
effect
moisture,
SSM,
PMF
increasing
by
7.3%,
9.2%,
respectively,
compared
CK.
Plastic
significantly
increased
temperature
1.3
°C,
reduced
0.7
°C
0–30
cm
layers
whole
growth
period.
On
average,
urease
activity
0–40
14.2%,
2.8%,
2.7%,
enhanced
sucrase
19.2%,
8.6%,
5.7%,
catalase
9.6%,
while
SSM
decreased
10.1%.
Mulching
tuber
water
use
efficiency
based
dry
(WUE),
18.6%,
31.9%,
29.7%,
WUE
50%,
57.0%
over
correlation
analysis
revealed
moisture
main
factor
influencing
(r
=
0.95**).
could
improve
environment,
regulate
activities,
promote
increase.
As
sustainable
protective
measure,
conducive
ecological
environment
farmland
development
regional
organic
agriculture.
Language: Английский
Evapotranspiration Partitioning for Croplands Based on Eddy Covariance Measurements and Machine Learning Models
Agronomy,
Journal Year:
2025,
Volume and Issue:
15(3), P. 512 - 512
Published: Feb. 20, 2025
Accurately
partitioning
evapotranspiration
(ET)
of
cropland
into
productive
plant
transpiration
(T)
and
non-productive
soil
evaporation
(E)
is
important
for
improving
crop
water
use
efficiency.
Many
methods,
including
machine
learning
have
been
developed
ET
partitioning.
However,
the
applicability
models
in
with
diverse
rotations
not
clear.
In
this
study,
are
used
to
predict
E,
T
obtained
by
calculating
difference
between
leading
derivation
ratio
(T/ET).
We
evaluated
six
(i.e.,
artificial
neural
networks
(ANN),
extremely
randomized
trees
(ExtraTrees),
gradient
boosting
decision
tree
(GBDT),
light
(LightGBM),
random
forest
(RF),
extreme
(XGBoost))
on
at
16
flux
sites
during
period
from
2000
2020.
The
evaluation
results
showed
that
XGBoost
model
had
best
performance
(R
=
0.88,
RMSE
6.87
W/m2,
NSE
0.77,
MAE
3.41
W/m2)
when
considering
meteorological
data,
ecosystem
sensible
heat
flux,
respiration,
content,
remote
sensing
vegetation
indices
as
input
variables.
Due
unavailability
observed
E
or
data
sites,
we
three
other
widely
methods
indirectly
validate
accuracy
our
based
XGBoost.
estimation
were
highly
consistent
their
0.83–0.91).
Moreover,
estimated
(T/ET)
different
crops.
On
average,
maize
highest
T/ET
0.619
±
0.119,
followed
soybean
(0.618
0.085),
winter
wheat
(0.614
0.08),
sugar
beet
(0.611
0.065).
Lower
was
found
paddy
rice
(0.505
0.055),
barley
(0.590
0.058),
potato
(0.540
0.088),
rapeseed
(0.522
0.107).
These
suggest
easy
applicable
reveal
obvious
differences
among
crops,
which
crucial
sustainability
resources
improvements
Language: Английский
Dynamic response of vegetation to meteorological drought and driving mechanisms in Mongolian Plateau
Shuhui Gao,
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Shengzhi Huang,
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Vijay P. Singh
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et al.
Journal of Hydrology,
Journal Year:
2024,
Volume and Issue:
unknown, P. 132541 - 132541
Published: Dec. 1, 2024
Language: Английский
Trends in the phenology of the Hyrcanian Forests: Elevation and Climate Change Impacts
Remote Sensing Applications Society and Environment,
Journal Year:
2025,
Volume and Issue:
unknown, P. 101588 - 101588
Published: May 1, 2025
Language: Английский
Impacts of climate change and human activities on vegetation dynamics on the Mongolian Plateau, East Asia from 2000 to 2023
Journal of Arid Land,
Journal Year:
2024,
Volume and Issue:
16(8), P. 1062 - 1079
Published: Aug. 1, 2024
Language: Английский
Linking Vegetation Phenology to Net Ecosystem Productivity: Climate Change Impacts in the Northern Hemisphere Using Satellite Data
Hanmin Yin,
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Xiaofei Ma,
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Xiaohan Liao
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et al.
Remote Sensing,
Journal Year:
2024,
Volume and Issue:
16(21), P. 4101 - 4101
Published: Nov. 2, 2024
With
global
climate
change,
linking
vegetation
phenology
with
net
ecosystem
productivity
(NEP)
is
crucial
for
assessing
carbon
storage
capacity
and
predicting
terrestrial
changes.
However,
there
have
been
few
studies
investigating
the
relationship
between
NEP
in
middle
high
latitudes
of
Northern
Hemisphere.
This
study
comprehensively
analyzed
phenological
changes
their
drivers
using
satellite
data.
It
also
investigated
spatial
distribution
further
sensitivity
to
phenology.
The
results
indicated
that
average
land
surface
(LSP)
was
dominated
by
a
monotonic
trend
area.
LSP
derived
from
different
products
retrieval
methods
exhibited
relatively
consistent
responses
climate.
SOS
POS
showed
higher
negative
correlation
nighttime
temperatures
compared
daytime
temperatures.
EOS
than
positive
correlation.
correlations
VPD
SOS,
POS,
proportion
correlations.
annual
ranged
0
1000
gC·m−2.
cumulative
trends
were
mainly
monotonically
increasing,
accounting
61.04%,
followed
decreasing
trends,
which
accounted
17.95%.
In
high-latitude
regions,
predominant,
while
predominant
middle-latitude
regions.
soil
moisture
(48.08%
vs.
51.92%)
basically
predominantly
negative.
overall
characterized
greater
LOS
most
areas.
parameters
(SOS,
EOS)
negative,
(0.75
gC·m−2/d
EVI
0.63
LAI
0.30
SIF).
provides
new
insights
theoretical
basis
exploring
under
change.
Language: Английский
Monitoring and Prediction of Land Surface Phenology Using Satellite Earth Observations—A Brief Review
Applied Sciences,
Journal Year:
2024,
Volume and Issue:
14(24), P. 12020 - 12020
Published: Dec. 22, 2024
Monitoring
and
predicting
land
surface
phenology
(LSP)
are
essential
for
understanding
ecosystem
dynamics,
climate
change
impacts,
forest
agricultural
productivity.
Satellite
Earth
observation
(EO)
missions
have
played
a
crucial
role
in
the
advancement
of
LSP
research,
enabling
global
continuous
monitoring
vegetation
cycles.
This
review
provides
brief
overview
key
EO
satellite
missions,
including
advanced
very-high
resolution
radiometer
(AVHRR),
moderate
imaging
spectroradiometer
(MODIS),
Landsat
program,
which
an
important
capturing
dynamics
at
various
spatial
temporal
scales.
Recent
advancements
machine
learning
techniques
further
enhanced
prediction
capabilities,
offering
promising
approaches
short-term
cropland
suitability
assessment.
Data
cubes,
organize
multidimensional
data,
provide
innovative
framework
enhancing
analyses
by
integrating
diverse
data
sources
simplifying
access
processing.
highlights
potential
satellite-based
monitoring,
models,
cube
infrastructure
advancing
research
insights
into
current
trends,
challenges,
future
directions.
Language: Английский
Analysis of Changes in Forest Vegetation Peak Growth Metrics and Driving Factors in a Typical Climatic Transition Zone: A Case Study of the Funiu Mountain, China
Jiao Tang,
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Huimin Wang,
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Nan Cong
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et al.
Remote Sensing,
Journal Year:
2024,
Volume and Issue:
16(16), P. 2921 - 2921
Published: Aug. 9, 2024
Phenology
and
photosynthetic
capacity
both
regulate
carbon
uptake
by
vegetation.
Previous
research
investigating
the
impact
of
phenology
on
vegetation
productivity
has
focused
predominantly
start
end
growing
seasons
(SOS
EOS),
leaving
influence
peak
metrics—particularly
in
typical
climatic
transition
zones—relatively
unexplored.
Using
a
24-year
(2000–2023)
enhanced
index
(EVI)
dataset
from
Moderate
Resolution
Imaging
Spectroradiometer
(MODIS),
we
extracted
examined
spatiotemporal
variation
for
season
(POS)
growth
(defined
as
EVImax)
forest
Funiu
Mountain
region,
China.
In
addition
to
quantifying
factors
influencing
metrics,
relationship
between
phenological
metrics
(POS
was
investigated.
Our
findings
reveal
that
POS
EVImax
showed
advancement
increase,
respectively,
negatively
positively
correlated
with
productivity.
This
suggested
variations
increase
analysis
also
heavily
impacted
precipitation,
whereas
SOS
had
greatest
effect
variation.
highlighted
significance
considering
climate
variables
well
biological
rhythms
when
examining
global
cycle
shifts
response
change.
Language: Английский
The impact of drought on forest spring phenology in northern China
Haowen Hu,
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Pengcheng Xue,
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Shaodong Huang
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et al.
Ecological Indicators,
Journal Year:
2024,
Volume and Issue:
170, P. 113022 - 113022
Published: Dec. 25, 2024
Language: Английский
Climate warming advances plant reproductive phenology in China’s northern grasslands
Lu Bai,
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Lei Tian,
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Zhiguo Ren
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et al.
Journal of Plant Ecology,
Journal Year:
2024,
Volume and Issue:
17(6)
Published: Aug. 26, 2024
Abstract
Despite
much
recent
progress,
our
understanding
of
plant
phenology
response
to
climate
change
remains
incomplete.
In
particular,
how
and
what
extent
warming
affects
the
vegetative
reproductive
different
functional
groups
in
northern
grassland
ecosystems
largely
unexplored.
Here,
we
compiled
data
1758
observations
from
25
individual
studies
carried
out
a
meta-analysis
relation
temperature
changes
across
range
species
China.
We
show
that
tended
extend
duration
while
having
no
effect
on
phenology.
also
identified
specific
sensitivities
for
phenological
stages:
1.73
days
°C−1
budding,
−3.38
leaf
spreading
0.56
yellow
withered
stage,
respectively.
Notably,
resulted
earlier
shrubs
semi-shrubs,
but
caused
delay
budding
time
sedges.
terms
phenology,
sensitivity
was
−1.73
flowering
time,
−2.53
fruit
ripening
−0.11
shedding,
Warming
advanced
repining
all
except
legumes.
Our
results
indicate
elevated
temperatures
extended
its
grasslands,
showing
impact
findings
demonstrate
differential
responses
warming,
highlighting
diverse
growth
strategies
adaptation
plants
world.
Language: Английский