中国灌木生态系统的干旱化趋势及其对植被生长的影响

大量研究表明,21世纪全球气温将持续升高,干旱将不断加剧,具有超强抗旱能力的灌木在未来的区域乃至全球生态系统过程中将会发挥越来越重要的作用。灌木在我国有着广泛的分布,其总面积超过了我国陆地面积的20%。本研究旨在通过计算中国灌木生态系统的标准化降水蒸散指数(Standardized Precipitation Evapotranspiration Index, SPEI)来分析其干旱变化趋势及其对灌木生态系统植被生长的影响。结果显示,中国灌木生态系统的SPEI在1961—2013年间总体上呈显著地下降趋势,但其趋势在1992年发生了显著变化,这表明中国灌木生态系统正在持续地干旱化,并且在最近二十几年干旱化加剧。我们还分析了不同灌木生态系统EVI(Enhanced Vegetation Index, EVI)对SPEI变化的响应,结果显示不同的灌木生态系统类型对SPEI变化的响应不同。夏季,高寒荒漠灌木半灌木、温带荒漠灌木半灌木和温带落叶灌木EVI与SPEI变化显著正相关,而亚高山常绿灌木和亚热带常绿灌木EVI则与SPEI的变化显著负相关。温带落叶灌木EVI与春季SPEI变化显著正相关,但却与秋季和冬季的SPEI显著负相关。此外,亚热带常绿灌木EVI还与春季SPEI变化显著正相关。从空间上来看,北方的灌木生态系统比南方的灌木生态系统对干旱的变化更加敏感,同时,南方湿润地区的灌木在生态系统尺度也体现了较强的抗旱能力。在全球持续干旱化的大背景下,研究灌木生态系统EVI对干旱变化的响应将有助于对区域生态系统过程变化的理解。     

祁连山中部祁连圆柏年内径向生长对气候因子的响应

通过对祁连山中部葫芦沟流域的祁连圆柏连续采集微树芯,对其形成层活动和径向生长动态进行了连续两年的监测研究。结果表明,2012年细胞壁加厚和细胞成熟阶段开始时间分别发生在6月26日和7月24日,比2013年细胞壁加厚(6月22日)和细胞成熟阶段(6月26日)开始时间分别晚5 d和28 d。2012年细胞扩大、细胞壁加厚和细胞成熟阶段结束时间分别为7月16日、8月9日和9月8日,比2013年各阶段结束时间分别晚7、28 d和24 d。2012年最大细胞分裂速率为0.33细胞/d,共形成20.9个细胞,细胞分裂速率和木质部细胞总数均高于2013年。通过与附近气象站记录的气象数据进行对比,发现祁连圆柏生长开始时间在温暖年份显著早于寒冷年份,说明祁连圆柏的径向生长开始时间与温度有关。但2013年春季和夏初的高温导致区域干旱程度加剧,使祁连圆柏生长结束时间显著早于2012年,并导致2013年的木质部细胞总量和生长速率都小于2012年。研究表明,在寒冷干旱地区,尽管升温会使生长季提前,但升温导致的干旱胁迫可能对树木的生长速率和木质部细胞总量产生重要影响。     

落叶阔叶林冠层光合有效辐射分量的遥感模拟与分析

冠层绿色叶片(光合组分)的光合有效辐射分量(绿色FPAR)真实地反映了植被与外界进行物质和能量交换的能力,获取冠层光合组分吸收的太阳光合有效辐射,对生态系统生产力的遥感估算精度的提高具有重要的意义。研究以落叶阔叶林为例,基于SAIL模型模拟森林冠层光合组分和非光合组分吸收的光合有效辐射,研究冠层FPAR变化规律以及与植被指数的相关关系。结果表明,冠层结构的改变会影响冠层对PAR的吸收能力,冠层绿色FPAR的大小与植被面积指数及光合组分面积比相关;在高覆盖度植被区,冠层绿色FPAR占冠层总FPAR的80%以上,非光合组分的贡献较小,但在低植被覆盖区,当光合组分和非光合组分面积相同时,绿色FPAR不及冠层总FPAR的50%;相比于NDVI,北方落叶阔叶林冠层EVI与绿色FPAR存在更为显著的线性相关关系(R~20.99)。     

中国区域1960~2000年活动积温年代变化和地表植被的适应性调整

一年多季农业耕作区域的布局和植被物候变化是长期气候适应的结果.随着20世纪80年代中期之后全球气候的持续变暖,以活动积温和天数为综合指标的各种级别的气候区域边界发生变化,中国北方地区一年两季农业耕作区域和植被物候也发生了适应性调整.其中20世纪60～80年代,活动积温和天数空间分布相对比较平稳,边界没有发生明显的拓展和收缩,但随着气温升高,20世纪90年代活动积温边界发生改变,各量级的活动积温和天数综合指标边界明显向北推进.对应于气候的持续变暖,来自遥感数据的谐波分析和物候监测结果显示,90年代北方地区一年两季耕作面积增加,范围向北扩展;同时植被物候也发生明显改变,80年代和90年代的物候变化比较显示,1995年之后植被生长期比1985年之前普遍提前约10d左右,在一年两季耕作区域,植被生长期提前将近20d左右.     

The greening and browning of Alaska based on 1982–2003 satellite data

Aim To examine the trends of 1982–2003 satellite‐derived normalized difference vegetation index (NDVI) values at several spatial scales within tundra and boreal forest areas of Alaska. Location Arctic and subarctic Alaska. Methods Annual maximum NDVI data from the twice monthly Global Inventory Modelling and Mapping Studies (GIMMS) NDVI 1982–2003 data set with 64‐km² pixels were extracted from a spatial hierarchy including three large regions: ecoregion polygons within regions, ecozone polygons within boreal ecoregions and 100‐km climate station buffers. The 1982–2003 trends of mean annual maximum NDVI values within each area, and within individual pixels, were computed using simple linear regression. The relationship between NDVI and temperature and precipitation was investigated within climate station buffers. Results At the largest spatial scale of polar, boreal and maritime regions, the strongest trend was a negative trend in NDVI within the boreal region. At a finer scale of ecoregion polygons, there was a strong positive NDVI trend in cold arctic tundra areas, and a strong negative trend in interior boreal forest areas. Within boreal ecozone polygons, the weakest negative trends were from areas with a maritime climate or colder mountainous ecozones, while the strongest negative trends were from warmer basin ecozones. The trends from climate station buffers were similar to ecoregion trends, with no significant trends from Bering tundra buffers, significant increasing trends among arctic tundra buffers and significant decreasing trends among interior boreal forest buffers. The interannual variability of NDVI among the arctic tundra buffers was related to the previous summer warmth index. The spatial pattern of increasing tundra NDVI at the pixel level was related to the west‐to‐east spatial pattern in changing climate across arctic Alaska. There was no significant relationship between interannual NDVI and precipitation or temperature among the boreal forest buffers. The decreasing NDVI trend in interior boreal forests may be due to several factors including increased insect/disease infestations, reduced photosynthesis and a change in root/leaf carbon allocation in response to warmer and drier growing season climate. Main conclusions There was a contrast in trends of 1982–2003 annual maximum NDVI, with cold arctic tundra significantly increasing in NDVI and relatively warm and dry interior boreal forest areas consistently decreasing in NDVI. The annual maximum NDVI from arctic tundra areas was strongly related to a summer warmth index, while there were no significant relationships in boreal areas between annual maximum NDVI and precipitation or temperature. Annual maximum NDVI was not related to spring NDVI in either arctic tundra or boreal buffers.     

When is breeding for drought tolerance optimal if drought is random?

* Increasing climatic unpredictability associated with characteristics of some species makes plant drought-tolerance an important drought-adaptation strategy. Using norm-of-reaction functions, or empirically determined functions that enable us to predict the state of a trait given the state of an environmental variable, allows modelling of plant performance when water availability varies randomly. * A mathematical model is proposed to evaluate drought-tolerance and growth strategies given a set of environmental parameters: the frequency of rainy days, the soil water-storage capacity, plant water use and plant growth rates. This model compares the performance of genotypes that differ in drought tolerance expressed as the ability to grow in drier soils, and assumes a general trade-off function between drought tolerance and maximum plant growth rate. * It is worth selecting plants with a greater degree of drought tolerance, expressed by the ability to grow in drier soils whenever the frequency of rains is smaller than the rate of soil water depletion. Otherwise, maximizing growth rate at the expense of drought tolerance is the best strategy. The nature of the trade-off between drought tolerance and plant growth rate also constrains the selection for optimal drought-adapted genotypes. * Breeders will have to consider these aspects of plant-environment interactions before establishing selection programs for drought adaptation.     

张广才岭北部三大硬阔树木生长-气候关系的时空变异

树木年轮在时空尺度上的比较可以更好地反映环境变化对树木生长的影响,在认识气候变化对森林生态系统的影响上具有重要意义。采用树木年代学方法分析了张广才岭北部地区阔叶红松林中主要阔叶树种-水曲柳(Fraxinus mandshurica)、黄菠萝(Phellodendron amurense)和胡桃楸(Juglans mandshurica)径向生长与气候关系的时空变异。结果表明,在同一地点树种间气候响应差异明显,胡桃楸受降水和最低温度共同作用,而黄菠萝和水曲柳则主要受最低温度限制,这表明树木生长与气候因子的关系具有一定的物种特异性。随着温度和降水格局的改变,三大硬阔年轮与气候关系在空间水平上存在差异,方正和西大圈样点的胡桃楸与6—8月最低温度呈显著正相关(P0.05),而凤凰山样点与5、6月最低温度和降水呈正相关(P0.05);黄菠萝和水曲柳径向生长随着降水空间格局的变化,其生长季末期相关性程度逐渐减弱。1980年后张广才岭北部出现气温显著升高,在升温前三大硬阔的生长趋势相对一致,而在升温后黄菠萝和水曲柳树轮宽度随温度升高呈上升趋势,但胡桃楸却出现随温度升高而生长下降的\"分异现象\"。如果未来增温趋势持续发生或者加重,可以推断在张广才岭北部胡桃楸可能受干旱胁迫加剧,其可能出现生长衰退,但增温可能更有利于黄菠萝和水曲柳的生长。     

中国北方草原对气候干旱的响应

草原生长动态受气候条件的影响和制约,在很大程度上取决于水分条件.为了较好阐明草原生长与干旱气候关系,利用表征草原生长变化的NDVI(Normalized Difference Vegetation Index)指数和表征干旱的SPI(Standardized Precipitation Index)指数研究了荒漠草原、典型草原、草甸草原与干旱气候的线性关系,表明荒漠草原的生长动态受季节性干旱影响很大,短期、中长期和长期干旱对荒漠草原影响较小.典型草原对季节性干旱响应较强,而对短期、中长期和长期的干旱响应较弱.草甸草原对季节性和长期干旱响应较强.并且草原对降雨量的响应具有时滞效应,水分盈亏对草原的影响是累积效应.利用基于虚拟变量的回归模型和简单回归模型模拟了草原NDVI对SPI指数的响应关系,基于虚拟变量的回归模型显示出对草原NDVI与SPI关系的较优拟合度.表明了草原生长动态对干旱气候响应具有季节性效应.     

The Bumblebees Scarcity Syndrome: Are heat waves leading to local extinctions of bumblebees (Hymenoptera: Apidae: Bombus)?

It is now well known that many bumblebee species are threatened in Europe and in N. America. Various hypotheses have been proposed to explain this regression. Some of the hypothetical factors act at a continental level, as the general restructuration of the agriculture toward the use of synthetic nitrogen fertilisation, in place of leguminous crops. The landscape fragmentation is typically a local factor the fusion of which also leads to large-scale effects. Since 2002, we observed a great number of situations where local droughts and heat waves occurred in France, UK, Scandinavia, Turkey, leading to very strong local reductions of the bumblebee’s fauna. We observed so many local cases in 2007–2009 that we could hypothesise that a merger of these local effects could lead to a new general threat. As they are the most exposed to heat waves, the species with a late (summer) phenology should be the most sensitive to this risk.     

Contrasting growth changes in two dominant species of a Mediterranean shrubland submitted to experimental drought and warming

BACKGROUND AND AIMS: Climate projections predict drier and warmer conditions in the Mediterranean basin in the next decades. The possibility of such climatic changes modifying the growth of two Mediterranean species, Erica multiflora and Globularia alypum, which are common components of Mediterranean shrublands, was assessed. METHODS: A field experiment was performed from March 1999 to March 2002 to prolong the drought period and to increase the night-time temperature in a Mediterranean shrubland, where E. multiflora and G. alypum are the dominant species. Annual growth in stem diameter and length of both species was measured and annual stem biomass production was estimated for 1999, 2000 and 2001. Plant seasonal growth was also assessed. KEY RESULTS: On average, drought treatment reduced soil moisture 22 %, and warming increased temperature by 0.7-1.6 degrees C. Erica multiflora plants in the drought treatment showed a 46 % lower annual stem elongation than controls. The decrease in water availability also reduced by 31 % the annual stem diameter increment and by 43 % the annual stem elongation of G. alypum plants. New shoot growth of G. alypum was also strongly reduced. Allometrically estimated biomass production was decreased by drought in both species. Warming treatment produced contrasting effects on the growth patterns of these species. Warmer conditions increased, on average, the stem basal diameter growth of E. multiflora plants by 35 %, raising also their estimated stem biomass production. On the contrary, plants of G. alypum in the warming treatment showed a 14 % lower annual stem growth in basal diameter and shorter new shoots in spring compared with controls. CONCLUSIONS: The results indicate changes in the annual productivity of these Mediterranean shrubs under near future drier and warmer conditions. They also point to alterations in their competitive abilities, which could lead to changes in the species composition of these ecosystems in the long term.     

植被对不同时间尺度干旱事件的响应特征及成因分析

利用标准化降雨蒸散发指数(SPEI)与归一化植被指数(NDVI)系统研究了中国不同区域、不同土地利用类型的植被对不同时间尺度干旱事件的响应特征,并对成因做出探讨。研究表明:(1)全国大部分区域NDVI与SPEI呈显著正相关,表明中国大部分区域植被生物量变化受干旱时空特征的影响。而沿北纬30度附近的长江流域区域,尤其是长江流域东南部、珠江流域下游等降水相对丰沛区域;黑龙江东北部及长白山地区、四川西部等高寒区域,NDVI与SPEI表现出弱相关性,受干旱影响较小;(2)多年平均水平衡是影响植被对干旱响应的关键因素,土壤水分变化是植被活力与生物量变化的关键影响因子。多年平均日照时数较长的区域,植被变化受干旱影响较大。从对干旱影响敏感性程度来讲,越是水量丰沛的区域,植被受干旱的影响越小,其中,草地对干旱的影响最为敏感,其次为灌木与森林。     

基于Ts|EVI特征空间的土壤水分估算

温度-植被指数特征空间耦合了地表温度和植被信息,是当前实现土壤水分遥感估算和农业旱情监测的重要方法.采用EOS-MODIS地表温度Ts和增强型植被指数EVI数据,研究Ts-EVI三角形特征空间中干边、湿边方程参数的确定方法,分析比较了温度植被干旱指数TVDI对不同土壤深度水分状况的估算能力,为利用特征空间法实现土壤水分监测提供理论依据.研究表明:特征空间中干边和湿边的确定以最大拐点处为始点进行线性拟合的常规方法并不完善,根据像元的分布频率,以采用能同时保留最大量有效信息和较高拟合精度的端点逼近法获取参数的效果较好;基于Ts-EVI特征空间构建的TVDI可以较好地估算土壤表层10、20cm和50cm土壤深度处土壤水分状况,其相关性均通过了α=0.001水平的t检验,但TVDI对表层土壤(20cm和10cm)水分的估算精度相对较高.     

基于MODIS数据的神农架大九湖泥炭藓沼泽植被指数变化研究

泥炭藓是陆地生态系统中最重要的固碳植物之一,固碳量约占全球土壤碳的15%。近几十年来,由全球气候变暖导致的泥炭藓沼泽水热状况变化对泥炭藓的固碳量和速率产生影响。选取我国最重要的亚高山泥炭沼泽——神农架大九湖泥炭藓沼泽为试验区,以分析中纬度地区泥炭藓沼泽植被生长状况受气候变化的影响。研究以2000—2017年MODIS植被指数NDVI和EVI为数据源,通过对比Logistic模型订正后的NDVI和EVI时间序列在泥炭藓沼泽植被生长状况监测中的优劣,选出最佳指标以获得18年来泥炭藓沼泽植被生长状况的变化趋势。研究结果表明:1)Logistic模型能够很好的消除泥炭藓沼泽植被指数时间序列的噪声;2)在季节和年际两个时间尺度上,EVI对泥炭藓沼泽植被生长状况的监测效果均优于NDVI。在季节周期上,虽然EVI和NDVI均得到泥炭藓沼泽植被生长周期规律,但EVI更灵敏。在年际分析中,EVI有更大的值域响应空间,以准确反映泥炭藓沼泽植被的年际变化规律;3)由EVI获得18年来泥炭藓沼泽植被变化趋势指出,泥炭藓沼泽植被呈显著微弱增长,年均EVI增长率为3.8‰(R~2=0.45,P0.01)。相比于EVI年均值,EVI年内最大值(R~2=0.47,P0.01)更敏锐的反映泥炭藓沼泽植被生长状况的动态变化。     

Climate sensitivity of conifer growth doesn’t reveal distinct low–high dipole along the elevation gradient in the Wolong National Natural Reserve,SW China

Recent climate warming is usually hypothesized to cause tree growth decline in the semi-arid regions where forests are particularly vulnerable to warming induced increases of water deficit. But there is still a large knowledge gap of climate warming effects on tree growth of cold temperate forest in the sub-humid region. Here we assess how climate warming has affected tree growth in the Wolong National Natural Reserve, Southwestern China, where recent warming might not cause tree growth decline because of the cold-humid climatic conditions. Tree-ring data from four co-dominant coniferous species (Larix potaninii var. macrocarpa, Tsuga chinensis, Abies faxoniana and Juniperus saltuaria) along an elevation gradient (from 2700 m to 3700 m) all imprinted temperature signals, and were both positively and significantly correlated with instrumental record of temperature data during the analyzed period of 1954–2010. Furthermore, the rising temperature since 1980 induced pervasive tree growth increases and stronger temperature signals for the coniferous species along the elevation gradient. The tree-ring chronology recorded a strong coherence with instrumental temperature since 1980 and was successful to keep up with the pace of climate warming rate. If climate warming continues, further increases in forest growth could be expected, and the terrestrial carbon sink will be strengthened for the local forest ecosystem in the future.