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Arid Land Geography ›› 2022, Vol. 45 ›› Issue (5): 1523-1533.doi: 10.12118/j.issn.1000-6060.2021.017

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Temporal and spatial variation of vegetation NDVI and its response to climatic factors in the southeastern margin of Mu Us Sandy Land

HE Junqi(),WEI Yan,GAO Wande,CHEN Yunfei,MA Yandong,LIU Xiuhua()   

  1. School of Water and Environment, Chang’an University, Key Laboratory of Subsurface Hydrology and Ecological Effect in Arid Region, Ministry of Education, Key Laboratory of Soil and Water Conservation and Ecological Restoration on the Loess Plateau of National Forestry and Grassland Administration, Xi’an 710054, Shaanxi, China
  • Received:2022-01-10 Revised:2022-03-12 Online:2022-09-25 Published:2022-10-20
  • Contact: Xiuhua LIU E-mail:516588675@qq.com;liuxh68@chd.edu.cn

Abstract:

A central element in understanding the dynamic relationship between ecosystems is achieved by understanding the response of vegetation growth to climate change. Based on the meteorological data and normalized difference vegetation index (NDVI) from 1990 to 2018, the variation in the NDVI of different types of vegetation in the southeast margin of Mu Us Sandy Land of Shaanxi, China during the growing season was analyzed via use of a partial correlation analysis and geographic detector data, and the effects of temperature and precipitation on various types of vegetation are discussed. The results show that: (1) In the growing seasons from 1990 to 2018, the annual NDVI for vegetation across the whole region increased significantly by 97.9%, and the overall eco-environmental quality was significantly improved. The growth rate of the annual NDVI of vegetation was slow prior to 2005, and then it increased sharply with a rate of increase of 0.011·a-1; across the observed increases, the annual NDVI related to shrub vegetation increased the most. (2) The year 2000 represented a transition year; a significant change in the behavior of the total precipitation and annual air temperature was observed in the year 2000. The total precipitation was seen to decrease at a rate of -5.510 mm·a-1 before this transition year and increase with a rate of 5.541 mm·a-1 after this transition year; these values were dominated by heavy rainfall events. Prior to this abrupt change in the year 2000, the annual rate of increase of annual extreme daily mean temperature and annual minimum daily mean temperature were 0.122 ℃·a-1 and 0.230 ℃·a-1, respectively. After the year 2000, the average annual decreasing rate of annual extreme daily mean temperature was -0.014 ℃·a-1, and the average annual rising rate of annual minimum daily mean temperature was 0.022 ℃·a-1. (3) In the slow growth stage of the NDVI (1990—2005), the annual minimum daily mean temperature was positively correlated with the annual NDVI of different types of vegetation, and had the greatest influence; in the rapid growth stage of annual NDVI (2006—2018), the total precipitation was positively correlated with the annual NDVI of different types of vegetation, and the frequent occurrence of heavy rainfall events meant that the total precipitation had a dominant effect on the growth of vegetation. This work finds that the interaction between total precipitation and annual air temperature, especially the annual minimum daily mean temperature, is the key factor in the promotion of the growth of vegetation.

Key words: Mu Us Sandy Land, climatic factor, normalized difference vegetation index (NDVI), geographic detector, extreme-point symmetric mode decomposition (ESMD)