Significant changes to the world’s climate over the past few decades have had an impact on the development of plants.Vegetation in high latitude regions,where the ecosystems are fragile,is susceptible to climate chan...Significant changes to the world’s climate over the past few decades have had an impact on the development of plants.Vegetation in high latitude regions,where the ecosystems are fragile,is susceptible to climate change.It is possible to better understand vegetation’s phenological response to climate change by examining these areas.Traditional studies have mainly investigated how a single meteorological factor affects changes in vegetation phenology through linear correlation analysis,which is insufficient for quantitatively revealing the effects of various climate factor interactions on changes in vegetation phenology.We used the asymmetric Gaussian method to fit the normalized difference vegetation index(NDVI)curve and then used the dynamic threshold method to extract the phenological parameters,including the start of the season(SOS),end of the season(EOS),and length of the season(LOS),of the vegetation in this study area in the Tundra-Tagar transitional zone in eastern and western Siberia from 2000 to 2017.The monthly temperature and precipitation data used in this study were obtained from the climate research unit(CRU)meteorological dataset.The degrees to which the changes in temperature and precipitation in the various months and their interactions affected the changes in the three phenological parameters were determined using the GeoDetector,and the results were explicable.The findings demonstrate that the EOS was more susceptible to climate change than the SOS.The vegetation phenology shift was best explained by the climate in March,April,and September,and the combined effect of the temperature and precipitation had a greater impact on the change in the vegetation phenology compared with the effects of the individual climate conditions.The results quantitatively show the degree of interaction between the variations in temperature and precipitation and their effects on the changes in the different phenological parameters in the various months.Understanding how various climatic variations effect phenology changes in plants at different times may be more intuitive.This research provides as a foundation for research on how global climate change affects ecosystems and the global carbon cycle.展开更多
Phenology is an important indicator of climate change.Studying spatiotemporal variations in remote sensing phenology of vegetation can provide a basis for further analysis of global climate change.Based on time series...Phenology is an important indicator of climate change.Studying spatiotemporal variations in remote sensing phenology of vegetation can provide a basis for further analysis of global climate change.Based on time series data of MODIS-NDVI from 2000 to 2017,we extracted and analyzed four remote sensing phenological parameters of vegetation,including the Start of Season(SOS),the End of Season(EOS),the Middle of Season(MOS)and the Length of Season(LOS),in tundra-taiga transitional zone in the East Siberia,using asymmetric Gaussian function and dynamic threshold methods.Meanwhile,we analyzed the responses of the four phenological parameters to the temperature change based on the temperature change data from Climate Research Unit(CRU).The results show that:in regions south of 64°N,with the rise of temperature in April and May,the SOS in the corresponding area was 5-15 days ahead of schedule;in the area between 64°N and 72°N,with the rise of temperature in May and June,the SOS in the corresponding area was 10-25 days ahead of schedule;in the northernmost of the study area on the coast of the Arctic Ocean,with the drop of temperature in May and June,the SOS in the corresponding area was 15-25 days behind schedule;in the northwest of the study area in August and the southwest in September,with the drop of temperature,the EOS in the corresponding areas was 15-30 days ahead of schedule;in regions south of 67°N,with the rise of temperature in September and October,the EOS in the corresponding area was 5-30 days behind schedule;the change of the EOS in autumn was more sensitive to the change of the SOS in spring,because the smaller temperature fluctuation can cause the larger change of the EOS;the growth season of vegetation in the study area was generally moving forward,and the LOS in the northwest was shortened,while the LOS in the middle and south of the study area was prolonged.展开更多
基金International Cooperation and Exchange of the National Natural Science Foundation of China,No.42061134019Major Special Project-The China High-Resolution Earth Observation System,No.30-Y30F06-9003-20/22。
文摘Significant changes to the world’s climate over the past few decades have had an impact on the development of plants.Vegetation in high latitude regions,where the ecosystems are fragile,is susceptible to climate change.It is possible to better understand vegetation’s phenological response to climate change by examining these areas.Traditional studies have mainly investigated how a single meteorological factor affects changes in vegetation phenology through linear correlation analysis,which is insufficient for quantitatively revealing the effects of various climate factor interactions on changes in vegetation phenology.We used the asymmetric Gaussian method to fit the normalized difference vegetation index(NDVI)curve and then used the dynamic threshold method to extract the phenological parameters,including the start of the season(SOS),end of the season(EOS),and length of the season(LOS),of the vegetation in this study area in the Tundra-Tagar transitional zone in eastern and western Siberia from 2000 to 2017.The monthly temperature and precipitation data used in this study were obtained from the climate research unit(CRU)meteorological dataset.The degrees to which the changes in temperature and precipitation in the various months and their interactions affected the changes in the three phenological parameters were determined using the GeoDetector,and the results were explicable.The findings demonstrate that the EOS was more susceptible to climate change than the SOS.The vegetation phenology shift was best explained by the climate in March,April,and September,and the combined effect of the temperature and precipitation had a greater impact on the change in the vegetation phenology compared with the effects of the individual climate conditions.The results quantitatively show the degree of interaction between the variations in temperature and precipitation and their effects on the changes in the different phenological parameters in the various months.Understanding how various climatic variations effect phenology changes in plants at different times may be more intuitive.This research provides as a foundation for research on how global climate change affects ecosystems and the global carbon cycle.
基金Major Special Project-The China High-Resolution Earth Observation System,No.30-Y20A07-9003-17/18。
文摘Phenology is an important indicator of climate change.Studying spatiotemporal variations in remote sensing phenology of vegetation can provide a basis for further analysis of global climate change.Based on time series data of MODIS-NDVI from 2000 to 2017,we extracted and analyzed four remote sensing phenological parameters of vegetation,including the Start of Season(SOS),the End of Season(EOS),the Middle of Season(MOS)and the Length of Season(LOS),in tundra-taiga transitional zone in the East Siberia,using asymmetric Gaussian function and dynamic threshold methods.Meanwhile,we analyzed the responses of the four phenological parameters to the temperature change based on the temperature change data from Climate Research Unit(CRU).The results show that:in regions south of 64°N,with the rise of temperature in April and May,the SOS in the corresponding area was 5-15 days ahead of schedule;in the area between 64°N and 72°N,with the rise of temperature in May and June,the SOS in the corresponding area was 10-25 days ahead of schedule;in the northernmost of the study area on the coast of the Arctic Ocean,with the drop of temperature in May and June,the SOS in the corresponding area was 15-25 days behind schedule;in the northwest of the study area in August and the southwest in September,with the drop of temperature,the EOS in the corresponding areas was 15-30 days ahead of schedule;in regions south of 67°N,with the rise of temperature in September and October,the EOS in the corresponding area was 5-30 days behind schedule;the change of the EOS in autumn was more sensitive to the change of the SOS in spring,because the smaller temperature fluctuation can cause the larger change of the EOS;the growth season of vegetation in the study area was generally moving forward,and the LOS in the northwest was shortened,while the LOS in the middle and south of the study area was prolonged.