Rare and endangered soils in the Taihang Mountain region, North China

2019 ◽  
Vol 30 (14) ◽  
pp. 1739-1750
Author(s):  
Tonggang Fu ◽  
Lipu Han ◽  
Hui Gao ◽  
Hongzhu Liang ◽  
Jintong Liu
2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 856
Author(s):  
Tonggang Fu ◽  
Hongzhu Liang ◽  
Hui Gao ◽  
Jintong Liu

The Earth’s climate has warmed by approximately 0.6 °C over the last century, but temperature change in the Taihang Mountain region—an important transition zone in North China which functions as an ecological barrier for Beijing, Tianjin, and other big cities—is still unknown. In this study, we analyze the spatial and temporal trends in the average annual and seasonal surface air temperature in the Taihang Mountain region from 1968 to 2017. The effect of elevation, longitude, latitude, percent forestland, percent farmland, and gross domestic product (GDP) on temperature was also determined. Our results show that the Taihang Mountain has warmed by 0.3 °C/decade over the past five decades. Partitioned seasonally, average warming was 0.38, 0.14, 0.21, and 0.47 °C/decade in spring, summer, fall, and winter, respectively. Elevation and latitude were significantly negatively correlated with temperature but had no correlation with the temporal warming trend (i.e., the Z value from a Mann–Kendall test). The Z value was significantly negatively correlated with percent forestland and positively correlated with GDP, indicating that economic development has induced warming, but afforestation may reduce the rate of warming increase. Together, our results provide important insights into the rates and drivers of climate change within mountainous regions.


Geoderma ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 328 ◽  
pp. 91-99 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tonggang Fu ◽  
Lipu Han ◽  
Hui Gao ◽  
Hongzhu Liang ◽  
Jintong Liu

2011 ◽  
Vol 26 (9) ◽  
pp. 1332-1341 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shumin Han ◽  
Yonghui Yang ◽  
Tong Fan ◽  
Dengpan Xiao ◽  
Juana Paul Moiwo
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PLoS ONE ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. e91589 ◽  
Author(s):  
Huitao Shen ◽  
Jiansheng Cao ◽  
Wanjun Zhang ◽  
Xinhua Zeng ◽  
Huaru Wang

2012 ◽  
Vol 49 ◽  
pp. 193-200 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xiuping Liu ◽  
Wanjun Zhang ◽  
Fan Yang ◽  
Xia Zhou ◽  
Zhijun Liu ◽  
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2011 ◽  
Vol 356-360 ◽  
pp. 2320-2324
Author(s):  
Rui Gang Zhang

The groundwater table depths from 1982 to 1986 of 58 unconfined wells in North China Plain(NCP) were analyzed using principal component analysis method. Results showed there were mainly three hydrograph patterns over the area: increasing trend with steady moderate seasonal fluctuations in Taihang Mountain piedmont area; decreasing trend with large seasonal fluctuation magnitudes in central plain of NCP; increasing-decreasing trend with large variance of fluctuation magnitude in piedmont of Yan Mountain piedmont.The distribution of precipitation, irrigating abstraction, and water table depths were the main factors determining the hydrograph patterns and their distribution.


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