Accelerated Decline in Vegetation Resilience on the Tibetan Plateau DOI

Yantao Liu,

Pengfeng Xiao, Xueliang Zhang

et al.

Land Degradation and Development, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: unknown

Published: Oct. 28, 2024

ABSTRACT The ability of ecosystems to resist and recover from external disturbances is declining due climate change, increased frequency disasters, intensified human activities. Global vegetation resilience considered be at risk being lost. sensitive fragile Tibetan Plateau (TP) has experienced changes in management patterns over the past five decades, but complexity defining resilience, there still no unified understanding spatial long time‐series trends on TP. In this study, we introduce method based critical slowing down, making it possible clarify distribution temporal dynamics results show low northeastern southwestern edges TP Three River Source region. area experiencing loss approximately 1.16–1.44 times larger than gain. Vegetation exhibited a trend, with rate decline after 2014 more double that preceding period. Factors such as elevation, type, hydrothermal condition significantly influence resilience. These findings improve our its ecosystem vulnerability. We also recommend ecological restoration efforts maintained regularly assessed.

Language: Английский

Accelerated Decline in Vegetation Resilience on the Tibetan Plateau DOI

Yantao Liu,

Pengfeng Xiao, Xueliang Zhang

et al.

Land Degradation and Development, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: unknown

Published: Oct. 28, 2024

ABSTRACT The ability of ecosystems to resist and recover from external disturbances is declining due climate change, increased frequency disasters, intensified human activities. Global vegetation resilience considered be at risk being lost. sensitive fragile Tibetan Plateau (TP) has experienced changes in management patterns over the past five decades, but complexity defining resilience, there still no unified understanding spatial long time‐series trends on TP. In this study, we introduce method based critical slowing down, making it possible clarify distribution temporal dynamics results show low northeastern southwestern edges TP Three River Source region. area experiencing loss approximately 1.16–1.44 times larger than gain. Vegetation exhibited a trend, with rate decline after 2014 more double that preceding period. Factors such as elevation, type, hydrothermal condition significantly influence resilience. These findings improve our its ecosystem vulnerability. We also recommend ecological restoration efforts maintained regularly assessed.

Language: Английский

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