Publications by authors named "Zhong'en Niu"
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- * In China, net ecosystem productivity (NEP) in key ecological zones increased by 42.6 Tg C/yr from 2001 to 2021, with major contributions from CO increases (66.5%) and IEL (33.5%).
- * The study suggests focusing on expanding IEL in areas with adequate precipitation and nutrient availability to maximize carbon benefits, while being cautious in regions negatively affected by climate change.
Improving ecosystem quality is the ultimate goal of ecological restoration projects and sustainable ecosystem management. However, previous results of ecosystem quality lack comparability among different regions when assessing the effectiveness of ecological restoration projects on the regional or national scales, due to the influence of geographical and climatic background conditions. Here we proposed a new index, ecosystem quality ratio (EQR), by integrating the status of landscape structure, ecosystem services, ecosystem stability, and human disturbance relative to their reference conditions, and assessed the EQR changes in China's counties and National Key Ecological Function Zones (NKEFZs) from 1990 to 2015.
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