Late Pleistocene and Holocene Afromontane vegetation and headwater wetland dynamics within the Eastern Mau Forest,Kenya     

Esther N. Githumbi  Colin J. Courtney Mustaphi  Rob Marchant 《第四纪科学杂志》2021,36(2):239-254

The Mau Forest Complex is Kenya's largest fragment of Afromontane forest, providing critical ecosystem services, and has been subject to intense land use changes since colonial times. It forms the upper catchment of rivers that drain into major drainage networks, thus supporting the livelihoods of millions of Kenyans and providing important wildlife areas. We present the results of a sedimentological and palynological analysis of a Late Pleistocene–Holocene sediment record of Afromontane forest change from Nyabuiyabui wetland in the Eastern Mau Forest, a highland region that has received limited geological characterization and palaeoecological study. Sedimentology, pollen, charcoal, X-ray fluorescence and radiocarbon data record environmental and ecosystem change over the last ~16 000 cal a bp. The pollen record suggests Afromontane forests characterized the end of the Late Pleistocene to the Holocene with dominant taxa changing from Apodytes, Celtis, Dracaena, Hagenia and Podocarpus to Cordia, Croton, Ficus, Juniperus and Olea. The Late Holocene is characterized by a more open Afromontane forest with increased grass and herbaceous cover. Continuous Poaceae, Cyperaceae and Juncaceae vegetation currently cover the wetland and the water level has been decreasing over the recent past. Intensive agroforestry since the 1920s has reduced Afromontane forest cover as introduced taxa have increased (Pinus, Cupressus and Eucalyptus).  相似文献   

1996—2015年黄河源区植被覆盖度提取和时空变化分析   总被引：2，自引：2，他引：0  

王俊奇  王广军  梁四海  杜海波  彭红明 《冰川冻土》2021,43(2):662-674

研究黄河源区植被覆盖度时空变化对于深入理解青藏高原多年冻土区在气候变化和人类活动双重作用下的植被响应,以及为黄河源区生态环境保护和治理提供决策具有重要的意义。以陆地卫星（Landsat）影像为主要数据源,利用多端元混合像元分解模型（Multiple Endmember Spectral Mixture Analysis,MESMA）,完成了1996—2015年黄河源区4.4万km²、7个时相的植被覆盖度提取,并基于转移矩阵和一元线性回归趋势法分析了植被覆盖度变化情况。结果表明：黄河源区东南部植被覆盖度较高,西北部植被覆盖度较低,且植被覆盖度在空间上由东南向西北呈递减趋势。1996—2004年植被覆盖度整体呈下降趋势,2004—2015年植被覆盖度呈增加趋势。1996—2015年植被覆盖度呈增加趋势的区域占57.25%,基本不变的区域占16.02%,植被覆盖度呈下降趋势的区域占26.73%。植被覆盖度下降的主要原因是黄河源头及一些河谷地带、环湖地区受人类影响较大,且东南部海拔较低地区受到过度放牧的影响。尽管黄河源区1996—2015年植被覆盖度总体呈改善趋势,但毒杂草的面积也由1996年的16 060 km²增加到2015年的22 942 km²,20年间增加了6 882 km²,毒杂草面积的增加对黄河源区局部地区畜牧业的发展有不利影响。  相似文献   

The relationship between groundwater and natural vegetation in Qaidam Basin          下载免费PDF全文

Dang Xue-ya  Lu Na  Gu Xiao-fan  Jin Xiao-mei 《地下水科学与工程》2021,9(4):341-349

To accurately evaluate ecological risks trigged by groundwater exploitation, it must be clarified the relationship between vegetation and groundwater. Based on remote sensing data sets MOD13Q1, groundwater table depth (WTD) and total dissolved solids (TDS), the relationship between groundwater and natural vegetation was analyzed statistically in the main plain areas of Qaidam Basin. The results indicate that natural vegetation is groundwater-dependent in areas where WTD is less than 5.5 m and TDS is less than 7.5 g/L. Aquatic vegetation, hygrophytic vegetation and hygrophytic saline-alkali tolerant vegetation are mainly distributed in areas with WTD <1.1 m. Salt-tolerant and mesophytic vegetation mainly occur in areas with WTD of 1.4-3.5 m, while the xerophytic vegetation isprimarily present in areas where WTD ranges from 1.4 m to 5.5 m. Natural vegetation does not necessarily depend on groundwater in areas with WTD >5.5 m. For natural vegetation, the most suitable water TDS is less than 1.5 g/L, the moderately suitable TDS is 1.5-5.0 g/L, the basically suitable TDS is 5.0-7.5 g/L, and the unsuitable TDS is more than 7.5 g/L.  相似文献   

Vegetation and peat accumulation steer Holocene tidal–fluvial basin filling and overbank sedimentation along the Old Rhine River,The Netherlands     

Harm Jan Pierik  Jelle I. M. Moree  Karianne M. van der Werf  Lonneke Roelofs  Marcio Boechat Albernaz  Antoine Wilbers  Bert van der Valk  Marieke van Dinter  Wim Z. Hoek  Tjalling de Haas  Maarten G. Kleinhans 《Sedimentology》2023,70(1):179-213

In the transformation from tidal systems to freshwater coastal landscapes, plants act as eco-engineering species that reduce hydrodynamics and trap sediment, but nature and timing of the mechanisms of land creation along estuaries remains unclear. This article focuses on the Old Rhine estuary (The Netherlands) to show the importance of vegetation in coastal landscape evolution, predominantly regarding tidal basin filling and overbank morphology. This estuary hosted the main outflow channel of the river Rhine between ca 6500 to 2000 cal bp , and was constrained by peat during most of its existence. This study reconstructs its geological evolution, by correlating newly integrated geological data and new field records to varying conditions. Numerical modelling was performed to test the inferred mechanisms. It was found that floodbasin vegetation and resulting organic accumulation strongly accelerated back-barrier infill, by minimizing tidal influence. After tidal and wave transport had already sufficiently filled the back-barrier basin, reed rapidly expanded from its edges under brackish conditions, as shown by diatom analysis and datings. Reed growth provided a positive infilling feedback by reducing tidal flow and tidal prism, accelerating basin infilling. New radiocarbon dates show that large-scale crevassing along the Old Rhine River – driven by tidal backwater effect – only started as nutrient-rich river water transformed the floodbasin into an Alder carr in a next phase of estuary evolution. Such less dense vegetation promotes crevassing as sediments are more easily transported into the floodbasin. As river discharge increased and estuary mouth infilling progressed, crevasse activity diminished around 3800 to 3000 cal bp , likely due to a reduced tidal backwater effect. The insights from this data-rich Holocene study showcase the dominant role that vegetation may have in the long-term evolution of coastal wetlands. It provides clues for effective use of vegetation in vulnerable wetland landscapes to steer sedimentation patterns to strategically adapt to rising water levels.  相似文献   

长江上游安宁河流域植被生长变化对气候条件的响应   总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1  

仙巍  邵怀勇 《国土资源遥感》2015,(3)

为探讨安宁河流域植被演变趋势及其与气候的相互作用,基于2001—2008年MODIS图像、降水量和气温数据,采用回归分析和相关分析等方法计算了安宁河流域降水、气温和归一化差值植被指数(normalized difference vegetation index,NDVI)在时间和空间上的变化情况,并对安宁河流域植被生长变化对气候条件的响应机制进行了探讨。结果表明:NDVI变化和气温、降水呈正相关;降水量和气温等气候因子的变动会直接反映在植被长势上,其中降水对安宁河流域植被生长的影响更为显著;植被长势与气温和降水存在一定的时间滞后性。  相似文献   

Modelling the Gross Primary Productivity of West Africa with the Regional Biomass Model RBM+, using optimized 250 m MODIS FPAR and fractional vegetation cover information     

《International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation》2015

Global warming associated with climate change is one of the greatest challenges of today’s world. Increasing emissions of the greenhouse gas CO₂ are considered as a major contributing factor to global warming. One regulating factor of CO₂ exchange between atmosphere and land surface is vegetation. Measurements of land cover changes in combination with modelling the Gross Primary Productivity (GPP) can contribute to determine important sources and sinks of CO₂.The aim of this study is to accurately model the GPP for a region in West Africa with a spatial resolution of 250 m, and the differentiation of GPP based on woody and herbaceous vegetation. For this purpose, the Regional Biomass Model (RBM) was applied, which is based on a Light Use Efficiency (LUE) approach. The focus was on the spatial enhancement of the RBM from the original 1000–250 m spatial resolution (RBM+). The adaptation to the 250 m scale included the modification of two main input parameters: (1) the fraction of absorbed Photosynthetically Active Radiation (FPAR) based on the 1000 m MODIS MOD15A2 FPAR product which was downscaled to 250 m using MODIS NDVI time series; (2) the fractional cover of woody and herbaceous vegetation, which was improved by using a multi-scale approach. For validation and regional adjustments of GPP and the input parameters, in situ data from a climate station and eddy covariance measurements were integrated.The results of this approach show that the input parameters could be improved significantly: downscaling considerably reduces data gaps of the original FPAR product and the improved dataset differed less than 5.0% from the original data for cloud free regions. The RMSE of the fractional vegetation cover varied between 5.1 and 12.7%. Modelled GPP showed a slight overestimation in comparison to eddy covariance measurements. The in situ data was exceeded by 8.8% for 2005 and by 2.0% for 2006. The model results were converted to NPP and also agreed well with previous NPP measurements reported from different studies. Altogether a high accuracy and suitability of the regionally adjusted and downscaled model RBM+ can be concluded. The differentiation between vegetation growth forms allows a separation of long-term and short-term carbon storage based on woody and herbaceous vegetation, respectively.  相似文献   

对地观测高光谱激光雷达发展及展望     

龚威  史硕  陈必武  宋沙磊  牛铮  王成  管海燕  李伟  高帅  林沂  孙嘉  杨健  杜霖 《遥感学报》2021,25(1):501-513

对目标空间三维—光谱信息的高分辨一体化获取与应用,是对地观测技术发展的前沿科学问题。结合高光谱成像与激光雷达测距的技术优势,对地观测多光谱/高光谱激光雷达遥感技术手段应运而生,并成为遥感技术未来发展的重要方向。本文分3个阶段详细回顾了对地观测高光谱激光雷达系统的发展历程,并针对其独有数据类型阐述了数据处理研究方面的探索研究。最后,重点分析了高光谱激光雷达在测绘领域、农林业领域的重大应用潜力,展望了未来对地观测高光谱激光雷达发展面临的机遇和挑战。  相似文献   

植被生态遥感参数定量反演研究方法进展     

赵燕红  侯鹏  蒋金豹  姜赟  张兵  白君君  徐海涛 《遥感学报》2021,25(11):2173-2197

植被参数是生态遥感定量反演的热点和难点,也是生态系统研究的基础性参数。本文在广泛阅读国内外公开发表的文献资料基础上,将现有的植被生态遥感参数概括为物理类、生化组分类、能量和功能类3大类,系统梳理了每类参数定量反演的主要模型方法,进行优缺点和适用性分析,对现阶段存在的不足和未来发展趋势进行了探讨。物理类植被生态遥感参数主要介绍了植被覆盖度、生物量、叶面积指数、树高等研究进展,生化组分类植被生态遥感参数主要介绍了植被含水量、叶绿素含量和光合能力等研究进展,能量类植被生态遥感参数介绍了光合有效辐射、植被吸收光合有效辐射等研究进展,功能类植被生态遥感参数主要介绍了植被生产力和碳交换量等研究进展。存在的主要问题包括混合像元分解、病态反演、物理模型应用过程中的误差传递、数据融合的尺度效应和空间变异性、模型耦合的最优方案确定问题。  相似文献   

不同地表覆盖下SPOT-7影像大气校正方法研究     

巫兆聪  喻文蕴 《测绘地理信息》2021,46(2):7-12

针对不同的地物覆盖类型,分析和评价了适用于SPOT-7卫星数据的大气校正方法,为其遥感定量研究和应用提供思路和参考。在河南省嵩山地区进行了同步观测实验,获取了SPOT-7卫星影像并进行大气校正处理,地面同步测量了大气光学特性和典型地物样区光谱,计算了地物样区在影像上的反射率和植被指数,分析了不同地物覆盖类型下大气校正模型(fast line-of-sight atmospheric analysis of spectral hypercubes,FLAASH)和大气模型(second simulation of the satellite signal in the solar spectrum,6S)的大气校正效果。对自然植被、农作物中的高秆作物、硬地建议采用FLAASH进行大气校正,对农作物中的低矮作物,建议采用6S进行大气校正。  相似文献   

利用Sentinel-2A多光谱成像仪与Landsat8陆地成像仪影像进行普陀山岛植被分类效果比较     

章晓洁  邓艳芬  张亚超  蒋芸芸  邱桔斐 《测绘通报》2019,(10):97-100

卫星遥感技术可用于海岛资源调查。Sentinel-2A与Landsat 8两颗卫星都可免费提供空间分辨率较高的多光谱遥感影像，在海岛调查中的应用潜力较大。本文以浙江舟山普陀山岛为例开展了针对这两种影像在海岛植被分类中的应用效果的研究，分别利用Sentinel-2A多光谱成像仪（MSI）和Landsat 8陆地成像仪（OLI）影像基于最大似然法分类获得了该岛阔叶林、针阔混交林、针叶林、灌丛、草丛等植被及其他地物的分布情况，并进行了精度检验，结果表明MSI的总体分类精度略高于OLI。  相似文献