Effects of climate change on vegetation patterns in Hulun Buir Grassland

Zheng Chen, Jieyu Liu, Li Li, Yongping Wu, Guolin Feng, Zhonghua Qian and Gui-Quan Sun

Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, 2022, vol. 597, issue C

Abstract: Climate change has resulted in instability of semi-arid ecosystems under global warming, especially during the last decades. Hulun Buir Grassland is suffering from prominent warming and drying. Therefore, it is vital to research the change of climate factors such as precipitation, temperature and carbon dioxide concentrations [CO2] on vegetation dynamics. A vegetation–climate dynamic model is applied in a typical semi-arid area of Hulun Buir Grassland in China to research the effects on vegetation distribution due to climate change. Various climate scenarios with representative concentration pathways (Current, RCP2.6, RCP4.5, RCP8.5) are compared. Temperature, precipitation and CO2 fertilization effects play critical roles on vegetation growth. The vegetation pattern shows the synergies of temperature, precipitation and [CO2]. From our research, the vegetation pattern here may change from dense spot state to bare state. The ecosystem shows the fastest degradation under Current scenario, suggesting that Current scenario is the worst climate condition for vegetation growth there. However, the RCP2.6 scenario is an ideal climate state for vegetation growth in which the radiative forcing is low, precipitation increases slightly, and vegetation can grow well.

Keywords: Climate change; Global warming; Dynamic model; Vegetation pattern; Hulun Buir Grassland (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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DOI: 10.1016/j.physa.2022.127275

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