Impacts of land use change on the vegetation carbon storage in the region around Taihu Lake, China

2009 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xingyu Zhang ◽  
Xianjin Huang ◽  
Xiaofeng Zhao ◽  
Rucheng Lu
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Land Use Change ◽  
Carbon Storage ◽  
Taihu Lake ◽  
Vegetation Carbon ◽  
Vegetation Carbon Storage

Re-assessing Vegetation Carbon Storage and Emissions from Land Use Change in China Using Surface Area

2019 ◽  
Vol 29 (4) ◽  
pp. 601-613
Author(s):  
Qingsong He ◽  
Shukui Tan ◽  
Peng Xie ◽  
Yaolin Liu ◽  
Jing Li
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Land Use Change ◽  
Surface Area ◽  
Carbon Storage ◽  
Vegetation Carbon ◽  
Vegetation Carbon Storage

scholarly journals Dynamic response of the vegetation carbon storage in the sanjiang plain to changes in land use/cover and climate

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Haiyan Li ◽  
Yi Qu ◽  
Xingyu Zeng ◽  
Hongqiang Zhang ◽  
Ling Cui ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Land Use ◽  
Carbon Storage ◽  
Sanjiang Plain ◽  
Forest Land ◽  
Carbon Density ◽  
The Sanjiang Plain ◽  
Unused Land ◽  
Vegetation Carbon ◽  
Vegetation Carbon Storage

AbstractLarge-scale human activities especially the destruction of forest land, grassland, and unused land result in a large amount of carbon release into the atmosphere and cause drastic changes in land use/cover in the Sanjiang Plain. As a climate change-sensitive and ecologically vulnerable area, the Sanjiang Plain ecosystem’s carbon cycle is affected by significant climate change. Therefore, it is important that studying the impact of the changes in land use/cover and climate on vegetation carbon storage in the Sanjiang Plain. Remote sensing, temperature, and precipitation data in four periods from 2001 to 2015 are used as bases in conducting an analysis of land use/cove types and spatio-temporal variation of vegetation carbon density and carbon storage in growing season using model and related analysis methods. Moreover, the impact of land use/cover change and climate change on vegetation carbon density and carbon storage is discussed. The findings are as follows. (1) Cultivated land in the Sanjiang Plain increased, while forest land, grassland and unused land generally decreased. (2) Vegetation carbon density increased, in which the average carbon density of cultivated land, grassland, and unused land varied insignificantly, while that of forest land increased continuously from 4.18 kg C/m2 in 2001 to 7.65 kg C/m2 in 2015. Vegetation carbon storage increased from 159.18 Tg C in 2001 to 256.83 Tg C in 2015, of which vegetation carbon storage of forest land contributed 94% and 97%, respectively. (3) Conversion of land use/cover types resulted in a 22.76-TgC loss of vegetation carbon storage. Although the forest land area decreased by 3389.5 km2, vegetation carbon storage in the research area increased by 97.65 Tg C owing to the increase of forest carbon density. (4) Pixel-by-pixel analysis showed that vegetation carbon storage in the majority of the areas of the Sanjiang Plain are negatively correlated with temperature and positively correlated with precipitation. The results showed that changes of land use/cover types and vegetation carbon density directly lead to a change in vegetation carbon storage, with the change of forest vegetation carbon density being the main driver affecting vegetation carbon storage variation. The increase of temperature mainly suppresses the vegetation carbon density, and the increase of precipitation mainly promotes it.

scholarly journals Carbon storage and its changes in Chinese terrestrial ecosystem in recent decades

2018 ◽  
Vol 53 ◽  
pp. 04027
Author(s):  
Lixia Wang ◽  
Changxin Zou ◽  
Yan Wang ◽  
Naifeng Lin
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Soil Carbon ◽  
Carbon Storage ◽  
Terrestrial Ecosystem ◽  
Fertilizer Application ◽  
Soil Carbon Storage ◽  
Terrestrial Carbon ◽  
Vegetation Carbon ◽  
Vegetation Carbon Storage ◽  
Intensive Land Use

This paper made a comprehensive assessment on carbon storage in terrestrial ecosystem in China by reviewing published literatures. Much more detailed carbon storages in vegetation, soil and ecosystem were summarized for forest, grassland, shrub, cropland and wetland in recent decades. It was discovered that total terrestrial carbon storage in China was 67.9 ~191.8 Pg C in recent decades, 6.1 ~ 57.57 Pg C was stored in vegetation, and 161.7 ~ 185.7 Pg C was stored in topsoil at a depth of 100 cm. Vegetation carbon storage has increased obviously in recent years; soil carbon storage declined in some areas owing to intensive land use, while it increased in other areas because of fertilizer application and reforestation. Total terrestrial carbon storage over China has increased in recent decades, and it is expected to continue to increase.

The Effects of Long‐Term Land‐Use Change on Soil Properties in Perth, Ontario Canada

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Trina Stephens
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Organic Matter ◽  
North America ◽  
Land Use Change ◽  
Soil Properties ◽  
Carbon Storage ◽  
Organic Matter Content ◽  
Matter Content ◽  
Topographic Gradients

Land‐use change can have a major impact on soil properties, leading to long‐term changes in soilnutrient cycling rates and carbon storage. While a substantial amount of research has been conducted onland‐use change in tropical regions, empirical evidence of long‐term conversion of forested land toagricultural land in North America is lacking. Pervasive deforestation for the sake of agriculturethroughout much of North America is likely to have modified soil properties, with implications for theglobal climate. Here, we examined the response of physical, chemical and biological soil properties toconversion of forest to agricultural land (100 years ago) on Roebuck Farm near Perth, Ontario, Canada.Soil samples were collected at three sites from under forest and agricultural vegetative cover on bothhigh‐ and low‐lying topographic positions (12 locations in total; soil profile sampled to a depth of 40cm).Our results revealed that bulk density, pH, and nitrate concentrations were all higher in soils collectedfrom cultivate sites. In contrast, samples from forested sites exhibited greater water‐holding capacity,porosity, organic matter content, ammonia concentrations and cation exchange capacity. Many of these characteristics are linked to greater organic matter abundance and diversity in soils under forestvegetation as compared with agricultural soils. Microbial activity and Q10 values were also higher in theforest soils. While soil properties in the forest were fairly similar across topographic gradients, low‐lyingpositions under agricultural regions had higher bulk density and organic matter content than upslopepositions, suggesting significant movement of material along topographic gradients. Differences in soilproperties are attributed largely to increased compaction and loss of organic matter inputs in theagricultural system. Our results suggest that the conversion of forested land cover to agriculture landcover reduces soil quality and carbon storage, alters long‐term site productivity, and contributes toincreased atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations.

scholarly journals Future Impacts of Land Use Change on Ecosystem Services under Different Scenarios in the Ecological Conservation Area, Beijing, China

Forests ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (5) ◽  
pp. 584 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zuzheng Li ◽  
Xiaoqin Cheng ◽  
Hairong Han
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Ecosystem Services ◽  
Land Use Change ◽  
Carbon Storage ◽  
Soil Conservation ◽  
Land Use Changes ◽  
Conservation Area ◽  
Trade Offs ◽  
Ecological Conservation ◽  
Flood Regulation

Ecosystem services (ES), defined as benefits provided by the ecosystem to society, are essential to human well-being. However, it remains unclear how they will be affected by land-use changes due to lack of knowledge and data gaps. Therefore, understanding the response mechanism of ecosystem services to land-use change is critical for developing systematic and sound land planning. In this study, we aimed to explore the impacts of land-use change on the three ecosystem services, carbon storage (CS), flood regulation (FR), and soil conservation (SC), in the ecological conservation area of Beijing, China. We first projected land-use changes from 2015 to 2030, under three scenarios, i.e., Business as Usual (BAU), Ecological Land Protection (ELP), and Rapid Economic Development (RED), by interactively integrating the Markov model (Quantitative simulation) with the GeoSOS-FLUS model (Spatial arrangement), and then quantified the three ecosystem services by using a spatially explicit InVEST model. The results showed that built-up land would have the most remarkable growth during 2015–2030 under the RED scenario (2.52% increase) at the expense of cultivated and water body, while forest land is predicted to increase by 152.38 km2 (1.36% increase) under the ELP scenario. The ELP scenario would have the highest amount of carbon storage, flood regulation, and soil conservation, due to the strict protection policy on ecological land. The RED scenario, in which a certain amount of cultivated land, water body, and forest land is converted to built-up land, promotes soil conservation but triggers greater loss of carbon storage and flood regulation capacity. The conversion between land-use types will affect trade-offs and synergies among ecosystem services, in which carbon storage would show significant positive correlation with soil conservation through the period of 2015 to 2030, under all scenarios. Together, our results provide a quantitative scientific report that policymakers and land managers can use to identify and prioritize the best practices to sustain ecosystem services, by balancing the trade-offs among services.

scholarly journals Ecosystem carbon storage under different scenarios of land use change in Qihe catchment, China

2020 ◽  
Vol 30 (9) ◽  
pp. 1507-1522
Author(s):  
Wenbo Zhu ◽  
Jingjing Zhang ◽  
Yaoping Cui ◽  
Lianqi Zhu
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Land Use Change ◽  
Carbon Storage ◽  
Ecosystem Carbon

Vegetation carbon storage in the main forest types in Guangxi and the related influencing factors

2019 ◽  
Vol 39 (6) ◽  
Author(s):  
兰秀 LAN Xiu ◽  
杜虎 DU Hu ◽  
宋同清 SONG Tongqing ◽  
曾馥平 ZENG Fuping ◽  
彭晚霞 PENG Wanxia ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Influencing Factors ◽  
Carbon Storage ◽  
Forest Types ◽  
Vegetation Carbon ◽  
Vegetation Carbon Storage
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