Publications by authors named "Zhongen 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.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe ratio of plant transpiration to total terrestrial evapotranspiration (T/ET) captures the role of vegetation in surface-atmosphere interactions. However, several studies have documented a large variability in T/ET. In this paper, we present a new T/ET dataset (also including transpiration, evapotranspiration data) for China from 1981 to 2015 with spatial and temporal resolutions of 0.
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- The study looked at how changes in climate affect carbon storage in forests and other land in China from 1982 to 2010.
- It found that between 1982-2000, carbon storage was decreasing, but from 2000-2010, it started to increase a lot due to stronger summer rain and slower warming.
- The summer monsoon had the biggest effect on helping plants take in more carbon, while other factors like CO levels had less influence on this change.