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Changes of vegetation carbon sequestration in the tableland of Loess Plateau and its influencing factors

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The variations of vegetation carbon sequestration have become a gauge for evaluating the ecological effect of vegetation restoration. In this study, the spatiotemporal patterns of the net ecosystem production (NEP) were simulated using an improved CASA model and GSMSR model. It showed that the NEP markedly increased in the tableland of Loess Plateau during 2003–2012, with an annual average growth of 3.65 g C·m−2 a−1. The mixed broadleaf-conifer forest ranked first (127.23 g C·m−2 a−1) while the bare land and sparse vegetation presented the lowest carbon sequestration (14.64 g C·m−2 a−1). The NEP manifested a significantly uneven overall spatial distribution: high in the southwest and low in the northeast. The spatial variations of NEP resulted from the combined effects of geographic position, terrain, meteorology, and soil and vegetation, respectively. Quantitative isolation revealed that the most dominant factor of vegetation carbon sequestration was soil and vegetation, while terrain exerted insignificant impacts on the NEP.

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This work was supported by the National Program on Key Research Project (2016YFC0501703), Basic Research program of Natural Science in Shaanxi (2017JZ008), and Open Foundation of Key Laboratory for Agricultural Environment, Ministry of Agriculture, P.R. China.

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    Jie Zhang, Mengyun Liu, Mengmeng Zhang, Jinghan Yang & Runshan Cao

  2. Department of Renewable Resources, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

    Sukhdev S. Malhi

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Zhang, J., Liu, M., Zhang, M. et al. Changes of vegetation carbon sequestration in the tableland of Loess Plateau and its influencing factors. Environ Sci Pollut Res 26, 22160–22172 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11356-019-05561-9

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