Planted Forests in China Have Higher Drought Risk Than Natural Forests
Institute of Soil and Water Conservation · Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs · +11 more institutions
Abstract
To improve the environment and mitigate climate change, China has implemented ambitious projects for natural forest protection and expanded planted forests. However, increased climate variability has led to more frequent and severe droughts, exacerbating the decline of these forests. The drought risk of planted forests is rarely assessed by considering both resistance and resilience, and comparative analyses between natural and planted forests are lacking. Here, we compared drought resistance and resilience in natural and planted forests across China using satellite observations from 2001 to 2020 to understand which forests were at higher risk of drought. The results showed that planted forests exhibited lower…
Citation impact
- FWCI
- 51.48
- Percentile
- 100%
- References
- 73
Authors
8- LMLonglong Ma
Institute of Soil and Water Conservation, Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, Northwest A&F University
- JMJun Ma
Fudan University
- PYPu Yan
Georgia Institute of Technology
- FTFeng Tian
Wuhan University, State Key Laboratory of Information Engineering in Surveying Mapping and Remote Sensing
- JPJosep Peñuelas
Centre for Research on Ecology and Forestry Applications, Global Ecology Unit CREAF-CSIC-UAB
Topics & keywords
- Climate change
- Agroforestry
- Evergreen
- Temperate rainforest
- Resistance (ecology)
- Environmental science
- Canopy
- Subtropics