BRANDT, Martin; YUE, Yuemin; WIGNERON, Jean-Pierre; TONG, Xiaowei; TIAN, Feng; JEPSEN, Martin Rudbeck; XIAO, Xiangming; VERGER, Aleixandre; MIALON, Arnaud; AL-YAARI, Amen; WANG, Kelin; FENSHOLT, Rasmus

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BRANDT, Martin
Department of Geosciences and Natural Resource Management [Copenhagen] [IGN]

YUE, Yuemin
Chinese Academy of Sciences [CAS]

WIGNERON, Jean-Pierre
Interactions Sol Plante Atmosphère [UMR ISPA]

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Earth's Future. 2018, vol. 6, n° 7, p. 1017-1028

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Above-ground vegetation biomass is one of the major carbon sinks and provides both provisioning (e.g., forestry products) and regulating ecosystem services (by sequestering carbon). Continuing deforestation and climate change threaten this natural resource but can effectively be countered by national conservation policies. Here we present time series (1999-2017) derived from complementary satellite systems to describe a phenomenon of global significance: the greening of South China Karst. We find a major increase in growing season vegetation cover from 69% in 1999 to 81% in 2017 occurring over similar to 1.4 million km(2). Over 1999-2012, we report one of the globally largest increases in biomass to occur in the South China Karst region (on average +4% over 0.9 million km(2)), which accounts for similar to 5% of the global areas characterized with increases in biomass. These increases in southern China's vegetation have occurred despite a decline in rainfall (-8%) and soil moisture (-5%) between 1999 and 2012 and are derived from effects of forestry and conservation activities at an unprecedented spatial scale in human history (similar to 20,000km(2)yr(-1) since 2002). These findings have major implications for the provisioning of ecosystem services not only for the Chinese karst ecosystem (e.g., carbon storage, water filtration, and timber production) but also for the study of global carbon cycles.< Réduire

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