Ecological Indicators,
Journal Year:
2023,
Volume and Issue:
154, P. 110566 - 110566
Published: July 1, 2023
After
extensive
ecological
restoration
in
the
karst
region
of
Southwestern
China,
a
potential
zone
for
achieving
"carbon
neutrality"
has
emerged,
despite
facing
water
scarcity.
We
analyzed
dynamics
use
efficiency
(WUE)
and
its
correlations
with
soil
moisture
(SM)
leaf
area
index
(LAI)
from
2003
to
2017
using
PML-V2
data
multiple
datasets
SM
LAI.
Advantageous
areas
artificial
carbon
sequestration
(CS)
were
also
identified.
Key
findings
are
as
follows:
(1)
Temporally,
WUE
exhibited
fluctuating
growth
at
an
annual
rate
0.01
gCmm−1H2O
(P
<
0.05).
The
advantage
CS
accounted
15.96%,
over
31.74%
regions
needing
management
intervention.
(2)
Monthly
was
highest
peak
forest
plain
(PFP)
landform
(2.88
gCmm−1H2O),
while
PFP
experiencing
decrease
−0.0021
gCmm−1H2O.
(3)
forests
followed
by
shrubs
(2.49
farmland
(2.32
gCmm−1H2O)
grassland
(1.93
showing
increase
(0.02).
(4)
both
positive
(14.26%∼26.02%)
negative
(14.19%∼30.98%)
correlations.
In
areas,
decreased
drought
stress
(DSI)
increased
all
vegetation
types.
Clear
DSI
threshold
observed
(0.29
0.42)
(0.19
0.30).
However,
values
less
pronounced.
There
transitional
point
impact
on
WUE,
which
faster
types
when
exceeded
0.53.
(5)
LAI
(27.09%∼30.25%)
(23.37%∼34.57%)
1.85
based
MODIS
data,
2.71
GLASS
2.59
GEOV2
had
1.69,
2.66,
2.23,
respectively.
While
displayed
0.79,
0.70,
0.72,
minimum
3.14
4.05
grassland,
it
1.04,
1.97,
1.76
This
study
helps
us
identify
enhancing
CS.
It
assists
making
informed
decisions
regarding
implementation
initiatives
considering
limiting
factor
adjustment
measures
utilizing
reference
standard.
Earth system science data,
Journal Year:
2022,
Volume and Issue:
14(12), P. 5267 - 5286
Published: Nov. 30, 2022
Abstract.
High-quality
gridded
soil
moisture
products
are
essential
for
many
Earth
system
science
applications,
while
the
recent
reanalysis
and
remote
sensing
data
often
available
at
coarse
resolution
only
surface
soil.
Here,
we
present
a
1
km
long-term
dataset
of
derived
through
machine
learning
trained
by
in
situ
measurements
1789
stations
over
China,
named
SMCI1.0
(Soil
Moisture
China
data,
version
1.0).
Random
forest
is
used
as
robust
approach
to
predict
using
ERA5-Land
time
series,
leaf
area
index,
land
cover
type,
topography
properties
predictors.
provides
10-layer
with
10
cm
intervals
up
100
deep
daily
period
2000–2020.
Using
benchmark,
two
independent
experiments
were
conducted
evaluate
estimation
accuracy
SMCI1.0:
year-to-year
(ubRMSE
ranges
from
0.041
0.052
R
0.883
0.919)
station-to-station
0.045
0.051
0.866
0.893).
generally
has
advantages
other
products,
including
ERA5-Land,
SMAP-L4,
SoMo.ml.
However,
high
errors
located
North
Monsoon
Region.
Overall,
highly
accurate
estimations
both
ensure
applicability
study
spatial–temporal
patterns.
As
based
on
it
can
be
useful
complement
existing
model-based
satellite-based
datasets
various
hydrological,
meteorological,
ecological
analyses
models.
The
DOI
link
http://dx.doi.org/10.11888/Terre.tpdc.272415
(Shangguan
et
al.,
2022).
Science Advances,
Journal Year:
2023,
Volume and Issue:
9(20)
Published: May 17, 2023
The
carbon
sequestration
capacity
of
alpine
grasslands,
composed
meadows
and
steppes,
in
the
Tibetan
Plateau
has
an
essential
role
regulating
regional
cycle.
However,
inadequate
understanding
its
spatiotemporal
dynamics
regulatory
mechanisms
restricts
our
ability
to
determine
potential
climate
change
impacts.
We
assessed
spatial
temporal
patterns
net
ecosystem
exchange
(NEE)
dioxide
Plateau.
grasslands
ranged
from
26.39
79.19
Tg
C
year-1
had
increasing
rate
1.14
between
1982
2018.
While
were
relatively
strong
sinks,
semiarid
arid
steppes
nearly
neutral.
Alpine
meadow
areas
experienced
increases
mainly
because
temperatures,
while
steppe
weak
due
precipitation.
Carbon
on
plateau
undergone
persistent
enhancement
under
a
warmer
wetter
climate.
Scientific Data,
Journal Year:
2023,
Volume and Issue:
10(1)
Published: March 15, 2023
Abstract
Global
soil
moisture
estimates
from
current
satellite
missions
are
suffering
inherent
discontinuous
observations
and
coarse
spatial
resolution,
which
limit
applications
especially
at
the
fine
scale.
This
study
developed
a
dataset
of
global
gap-free
surface
(SSM)
daily
1-km
resolution
2000
to
2020.
is
achieved
based
on
European
Space
Agency
-
Climate
Change
Initiative
(ESA-CCI)
SSM
combined
product
0.25°
resolution.
Firstly,
an
operational
gap-filling
method
was
fill
missing
data
in
ESA-CCI
using
ERA5
reanalysis
dataset.
Random
Forest
algorithm
then
adopted
disaggregate
coarse-resolution
1-km,
with
help
International
Soil
Moisture
Network
in-situ
other
optical
remote
sensing
datasets.
The
generated
had
good
accuracy,
high
correlation
coefficent
(0.89)
low
unbiased
Root
Mean
Square
Error
(0.045
m
3
/m
)
by
cross-validation.
To
best
our
knowledge,
this
currently
only
long-term
far.
Earth system science data,
Journal Year:
2021,
Volume and Issue:
13(7), P. 3239 - 3261
Published: July 7, 2021
Abstract.
Soil
moisture
is
an
important
parameter
required
for
agricultural
drought
monitoring
and
climate
change
models.
Passive
microwave
remote
sensing
technology
has
become
means
to
quickly
obtain
soil
across
large
areas,
but
the
coarse
spatial
resolution
of
data
imposes
great
limitations
on
application
these
data.
We
provide
a
unique
dataset
(0.05∘,
monthly)
China
from
2002
2018
based
reconstruction
model-based
downscaling
techniques
using
different
passive
products
–
including
AMSR-E
AMSR2
(Advanced
Microwave
Scanning
Radiometer
Earth
Observing
System)
JAXA
(Japan
Aerospace
Exploration
Agency)
Level
3
SMOS-IC
(Soil
Moisture
Ocean
Salinity
designed
by
Institut
National
de
la
Recherche
Agronomique,
INRA,
Centre
d’Etudes
Spatiales
BIOsphère,
CESBIO)
calibrated
with
consistent
model
in
combination
ground
observation
This
new
fine-resolution
high
overcomes
multisource
time
matching
problem
between
optical
sources
eliminates
difference
sensor
errors.
The
validation
analysis
indicates
that
accuracy
satisfactory
(bias:
−0.057,
−0.063
−0.027
m3
m−3;
unbiased
root
mean
square
error
(ubRMSE):
0.056,
0.036
0.048;
correlation
coefficient
(R):
0.84,
0.85
0.89
monthly,
seasonal
annual
scales,
respectively).
was
used
analyze
spatiotemporal
patterns
water
content
2018.
In
past
17
years,
China's
shown
cyclical
fluctuations
slight
downward
trend
can
be
summarized
as
wet
south
dry
north,
increases
west
decreases
east.
reconstructed
widely
significantly
improve
hydrologic
serve
input
ecological
other
geophysical
are
published
Zenodo
at
https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4738556
(Meng
et
al.,
2021a).
Earth system science data,
Journal Year:
2022,
Volume and Issue:
14(6), P. 2613 - 2637
Published: June 8, 2022
Abstract.
Surface
soil
moisture
(SSM)
is
crucial
for
understanding
the
hydrological
process
of
our
earth
surface.
The
passive
microwave
(PM)
technique
has
long
been
primary
tool
estimating
global
SSM
from
view
satellites,
while
coarse
resolution
(usually
>∼10
km)
PM
observations
hampers
its
applications
at
finer
scales.
Although
quantitative
studies
have
proposed
downscaling
satellite
PM-based
SSM,
very
few
products
available
to
public
that
meet
qualification
1
km
and
daily
revisit
cycles
under
all-weather
conditions.
In
this
study,
we
developed
one
such
product
in
China
with
all
these
characteristics.
was
generated
through
AMSR-E/AMSR-2-based
(Advance
Microwave
Scanning
Radiometer
Earth
Observing
System
successor)
36
km,
covering
on-orbit
times
two
radiometers
during
2003–2019.
MODIS
optical
reflectance
data
thermal-infrared
land
surface
temperature
(LST)
had
gap-filled
cloudy
conditions
were
inputs
model
so
“all-weather”
quality
achieved
SSM.
Daily
images
quasi-complete
coverage
over
country
April–September.
For
other
months,
national
percentage
also
greatly
improved
against
original
a
specifically
sub-model
filling
gap
between
seams
neighboring
swaths
procedure.
compares
well
situ
measurements
2000+
meteorological
stations,
indicated
by
station
averages
unbiased
root
mean
square
difference
(RMSD)
ranging
0.052
0.059
vol
vol−1.
Moreover,
evaluation
results
show
outperforms
SMAP
(Soil
Moisture
Active
Passive)
Sentinel
(active–passive
microwave)
combined
correlation
coefficient
0.55
0.40
latter
product.
This
indicates
new
great
potential
be
used
community,
agricultural
industry,
water
resource
environment
management.
download
https://doi.org/10.11888/Hydro.tpdc.271762
(Song
Zhang,
2021b).
Ecological Indicators,
Journal Year:
2023,
Volume and Issue:
146, P. 109881 - 109881
Published: Jan. 9, 2023
Can
green
vegetation
absorb
air
pollutants
and
control
regional
pollution?
The
existing
research
has
not
reached
a
consistent
conclusion
on
this
issue.
Using
the
multi-level
data
in
China,
paper
provides
empirical
evidence
of
causal
impact
greenspace
PM2.5
through
abundant
fixed
effect
controls.
Besides,
applied
soil
humidity,
Normalized
Difference
Vegetation
Index
(NDVI)
last
month,
NDVI
same
month
year,
prefecture-level
city
average
as
instrumental
variables,
respectively,
to
test
robustness
estimation.
results
show
that
increased
significantly
decreases
concentration
other
pollutants.
In
further
analysis,
we
found
decreasing
turns
significant
when
exceeds
0.3.
addition,
there
are
heterogeneities
pollution.
Greenspaces
more
pronounced
pollution
reduction
southern
or
higher
administrative-level
cities.
This
suggests
increasing
is
an
economical
effective
way
achieve
co-management
multiple
Nature Communications,
Journal Year:
2023,
Volume and Issue:
14(1)
Published: Oct. 19, 2023
Abstract
The
relationship
between
stomatal
traits
and
environmental
drivers
across
plant
communities
has
important
implications
for
ecosystem
carbon
water
fluxes,
but
it
remained
unclear.
Here,
we
measure
the
morphology
of
4492
species-site
combinations
in
340
vegetation
plots
China
calculate
their
community-weighted
values
mean,
variance,
skewness,
kurtosis.
We
demonstrate
a
trade-off
density
size
at
community
level.
mean
variance
are
mainly
associated
with
precipitation,
while
that
is
temperature,
skewness
kurtosis
less
related
to
climatic
soil
variables.
Beyond
climate
variables,
trait
moments
also
vary
seasonality
extreme
conditions.
Our
findings
extend
knowledge
trait–environment
relationships
scale,
applications
predicting
future
cycles.