Lengthening of the growth season, not increased water availability, increased growth of <i>Picea likiangensis</i> var. <i>rubescens</i> plantations on eastern Tibetan Plateau  due to climate change

Feng, Yu; Shi, Songlin; Peng, Peihao; Zhou, Qiang; Wang, Haijun; Liu, Xiubin

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/we-22-47-2022

Articles | Volume 22, issue 2

https://doi.org/10.5194/we-22-47-2022

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https://doi.org/10.5194/we-22-47-2022

© Author(s) 2022. This work is distributed under
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Articles | Volume 22, issue 2

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13 Jul 2022

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Lengthening of the growth season, not increased water availability, increased growth of Picea likiangensis var. rubescens plantations on eastern Tibetan Plateau due to climate change

Yu Feng, Songlin Shi, Peihao Peng, Qiang Zhou, Haijun Wang, and Xiubin Liu

Data sets

Daily dataset of meteorological element station observations in China Resource and Environmental Sciences and Data Centre https://www.resdc.cn/data.aspx?DATAID=230

Spatial distribution dataset of annual vegetation index (NDVI) in China X. Xu https://doi.org/10.12078/2018060601

Model code and software

Elegant Graphics for Data Analysis H. Wickham https://cran.hafro.is/web/packages/ggplot2/index.html

Short summary

We conducted a study on the response of plantation forests to climate change in the eastern Tibetan Plateau. Our study combined dendrochronology (basal area increment, BAI) and remote sensing (normalized difference vegetation index, NDVI) and found that tree growth was significantly correlated with drought index and temperature, and there was a significant positive correlation between BAI and NDVI. NDVI can be used to study the response of plantations to climate change.