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- Title
Increased snow cover enhances gross primary productivity in cold and dry regions of the Tibetan Plateau.
- Authors
Liu, Hao; Xiao, Pengfeng; Zhang, Xueliang; Wu, Youlv
- Abstract
Snow cover is an important control element in the Tibetan Plateau (TP) ecosystem; however, the impact of snow cover changes on gross primary productivity (GPP) is largely unknown, particularly under complex geographical conditions. In this study, we investigated the impacts of snow cover changes on different seasonal GPP and their mechanisms in different geographical zones using multisource remote sensing data from 1982 to 2018. Snow cover significantly affected GPP by nearly 15% of the TP region, and snow cover days (SCDs) were the dominant snow cover indicators affecting GPP variations compared with snow water equivalent (SWE) and snow cover end date (SCED). In general, an increase in snow cover leads to a significant increase in GPP in regions with low precipitation and temperature, but limits the accumulation of GPP in humid and warm regions. Furthermore, from the humid to the arid zone, the "moisture effect" of snow cover (by altering soil moisture) plays an increasingly important role in regulating GPP variations with increasing drought levels. This study elucidates the importance of snow cover in regulating different seasonal GPP variations and significantly improves our insight into the response of vegetation carbon uptake to snow cover changes in the TP.
- Subjects
TIBETAN Plateau; SNOW cover; COLD regions; ARID regions; SNOW accumulation; REMOTE sensing; SOIL moisture; LOW temperatures
- Publication
Ecosphere, 2023, Vol 14, Issue 9, p1
- ISSN
2150-8925
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1002/ecs2.4656