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DOI	10.1002/ldr.3314
	Vegetation restoration in Northern China: A contrasted picture
	Wang, Feng 1; Pan, Xubin 2; Gerlein-Safdi, Cynthia 3,4; Cao, Xiaoming 1; Wang, Sen 5; Gu, Lianhong 6,7; Wang, Dongfang 1; Lu, Qi1
通讯作者	Wang, Feng ; Lu, Qi
来源期刊	LAND DEGRADATION & DEVELOPMENT
ISSN	1085-3278
EISSN	1099-145X
出版年	2020
卷号	31 期号:6 页码:669-676
英文摘要	China started a long-term effort to mitigate desertification and ensure the sustainability of its environment by implementing multiple large-scale national ecological restoration projects since 1978, but their success has been highly debated for a long time. Here, we estimated the change of vegetation fraction cover (VFC) in the Three-North Shelterbelt Programme (TNSP) region over the past three decades on the basis of the Normalized Difference Vegetation Index dataset from the Global Inventory Monitoring and Modeling System. We evaluate the national strategy of vegetation restoration in North China by comparing rainfall patterns, vegetation change, and national ecological restoration programs on the basis of the Global Meteorological Forcing Dataset and the China Forestry Statistical Yearbooks. We find that the western, central, and eastern parts of the TNSP region exhibited a distinct increase in vegetation coverage. The western region had the highest increase of annual precipitation, but this did not result in the highest VFC increase. We infer that ecological restoration activities are the factor leading to the observed increase in VFC in the eastern and central region compared with the western region. The low survival rate of planted trees in the forest of the TNSP region indicates that it is necessary to improve the mode of vegetation restoration to obtain optimal returns and avoid excessive investment. The success of new strategies, for example, natural restoration and quasinatural afforestation are promising as an alternative method. China's experiences in reforestation will be very beneficial for other countries to promote land degradation mitigation and vegetation improvement in the arid and semiarid areas.
英文关键词	desertification land degradation precipitation pattern reforestation Three-North Shelterbelt Programme
类型	Article
语种	英语
国家	Peoples R China ; USA ; Canada
开放获取类型	Green Published
收录类别	SCI-E
WOS记录号	WOS:000524216400001
WOS关键词	HORQIN SANDY LAND ; AFFORESTATION PROJECTS ; DESERTIFICATION ; GREEN ; PROGRAM ; NDVI
WOS类目	Environmental Sciences ; Soil Science
WOS研究方向	Environmental Sciences & Ecology ; Agriculture
资源类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://119.78.100.177/qdio/handle/2XILL650/315125
作者单位	1.Chinese Acad Forestry, Inst Desertificat Studies, Beijing 100091, Peoples R China; 2.Chinese Acad Inspect & Quarantine, Inst Plant Quarantine, Beijing 100029, Peoples R China; 3.Princeton Univ, Dept Civil & Environm, Princeton, NJ 08544 USA; 4.Univ Michigan, Dept Climate & Space Sci & Engn, Ann Arbor, MI 48109 USA; 5.Nat Resources Canada, Canadian Forest Serv, 580 Booth St, Ottawa, ON K1A 0E4, Canada; 6.Oak Ridge Natl Lab, Environm Sci Div, POB 2009, Oak Ridge, TN 37831 USA; 7.Oak Ridge Natl Lab, Climate Change Sci Inst, POB 2009, Oak Ridge, TN 37831 USA
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Wang, Feng,Pan, Xubin,Gerlein-Safdi, Cynthia,et al. Vegetation restoration in Northern China: A contrasted picture[J],2020,31(6):669-676.
APA	Wang, Feng.,Pan, Xubin.,Gerlein-Safdi, Cynthia.,Cao, Xiaoming.,Wang, Sen.,...&Lu, Qi.(2020).Vegetation restoration in Northern China: A contrasted picture.LAND DEGRADATION & DEVELOPMENT,31(6),669-676.
MLA	Wang, Feng,et al."Vegetation restoration in Northern China: A contrasted picture".LAND DEGRADATION & DEVELOPMENT 31.6(2020):669-676.