Functional traits play a vital role in mediating the responses of ecosystem services to environmental changes and in predicting the functioning of the ecosystem.However,the connection between functional traits and eco...Functional traits play a vital role in mediating the responses of ecosystem services to environmental changes and in predicting the functioning of the ecosystem.However,the connection between functional traits and ecosystem services has become increasingly intricate due to climate change and human activities for degraded ecosystems.To investigate this relationship,we selected 27 sampling sites in the Yanhe River Basin of the Chinese Loess Plateau,each containing two types of vegetation ecosystems:natural vegetation and artificial vegetation ecosystems.At each sampling site,we measured ecosystem services and calculated the composition index of community traits.We established a response–effect trait framework that included environmental factors such as climate,elevation and human activities.Our results showed that leaf tissue density(LTD)was the overlapping response and effect trait when responding to climate change.LTD is positively correlated with mean annual temperature and negatively correlated with supporting services.Under the influence of human activities,leaf nitrogen content and leaf dry matter content were carriers of environmental change.Comparing the two vegetation ecosystems,the relationship between functional traits and ecosystem services showed divergent patterns,indicating that human activities increased the uncertainty of the relationship between functional traits and ecosystem services.Trait-based ecology holds promise for enhancing predictions of ecosystem services responses to environmental changes.However,the predictive ability is influenced by the complexity of environmental changes.In conclusion,our study highlights the importance of understanding the complex connection between functional traits and ecosystem services in response to climate changes and human activities.展开更多
This paper introduces a generalized multivariate Gumbel(GMG) distribution using a survival copula.Various dependence properties of the GMG distribution and some analytical properties of the generators of the GMG distr...This paper introduces a generalized multivariate Gumbel(GMG) distribution using a survival copula.Various dependence properties of the GMG distribution and some analytical properties of the generators of the GMG distribution are studied.Furthermore,the authors also investigate the dependence behavior of the residual lifetime vector of the GMG distribution.As an illustration,the GMG distribution is applied to fit a real data set.展开更多
基金supported by the CAS‘light of West China’program(XAB2020YN04)and the Natural Science Foundation of China(41977077 and 41671289).
文摘Functional traits play a vital role in mediating the responses of ecosystem services to environmental changes and in predicting the functioning of the ecosystem.However,the connection between functional traits and ecosystem services has become increasingly intricate due to climate change and human activities for degraded ecosystems.To investigate this relationship,we selected 27 sampling sites in the Yanhe River Basin of the Chinese Loess Plateau,each containing two types of vegetation ecosystems:natural vegetation and artificial vegetation ecosystems.At each sampling site,we measured ecosystem services and calculated the composition index of community traits.We established a response–effect trait framework that included environmental factors such as climate,elevation and human activities.Our results showed that leaf tissue density(LTD)was the overlapping response and effect trait when responding to climate change.LTD is positively correlated with mean annual temperature and negatively correlated with supporting services.Under the influence of human activities,leaf nitrogen content and leaf dry matter content were carriers of environmental change.Comparing the two vegetation ecosystems,the relationship between functional traits and ecosystem services showed divergent patterns,indicating that human activities increased the uncertainty of the relationship between functional traits and ecosystem services.Trait-based ecology holds promise for enhancing predictions of ecosystem services responses to environmental changes.However,the predictive ability is influenced by the complexity of environmental changes.In conclusion,our study highlights the importance of understanding the complex connection between functional traits and ecosystem services in response to climate changes and human activities.
基金supported by STU Scientific Research Foundation for Talents under Grant No.NTF15002STU Natural Science Foundation for Young Scientists under Grant No.YR15002+1 种基金Guangdong Natural Science Foundation under Grant No.2016A030310076Scientific Research Funds of Department of Education of Guangdong Province under Grant No.2015KQNCX043
文摘This paper introduces a generalized multivariate Gumbel(GMG) distribution using a survival copula.Various dependence properties of the GMG distribution and some analytical properties of the generators of the GMG distribution are studied.Furthermore,the authors also investigate the dependence behavior of the residual lifetime vector of the GMG distribution.As an illustration,the GMG distribution is applied to fit a real data set.
