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Nanjing Institute of Environmental Sciences, Ministry of Environmental Protection, Nanjing, China

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Published: 15 July 2021 in Geo-spatial Information Science
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Most lakes have undergone significant changes on the Tibetan Plateau in recent decades, affecting water resources on the Tibetan Plateau and its surrounding areas. In this paper, we investigated the variations of 25 lakes in five sub-regions on the Tibetan Plateau from 1972 to 2019 based on SRTM DEM data and Landsat imagery. We used a method to derive lake-levels based on DEM and lake boundaries delineated from Landsat imagery, and then calculated the changes in lake area, level, and volume in 1972 to 2019. We also analyzed the potential impacts of temperature, precipitation, glacial and permafrost melting in lake changes during this period. The results show that the lakes tended to shrink until 2010 in southern and western plateau, after which they began to expand gradually but the overall trend is still shrinking. Limited meltwater from glaciers and permafrost and low precipitation are the main reasons for their shrinkage. The lakes in the central plateau, northwest plateau and northeast plateau tend to expand overall. The reason for the expansion of the lakes is not only precipitation but also the melting of glaciers and permafrost. Overall, the lake changes have gone through 3 phases, namely a slight decrease during 1972–2000, a rapid increase during 2000–2010, and a slowdown in the last decade (2010–2019). Multiple factors such as temperature, precipitation, the state of glaciers and permafrost have contributed to the changes in the lake.

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Ju Zhang; Qingwu Hu; Yingkui Li; Haidong Li; Jiayuan Li. Area, lake-level and volume variations of typical lakes on the Tibetan Plateau and their response to climate change, 1972–2019. Geo-spatial Information Science 2021, 1 -16.

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Ju Zhang, Qingwu Hu, Yingkui Li, Haidong Li, Jiayuan Li. Area, lake-level and volume variations of typical lakes on the Tibetan Plateau and their response to climate change, 1972–2019. Geo-spatial Information Science. 2021; ():1-16.

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Ju Zhang; Qingwu Hu; Yingkui Li; Haidong Li; Jiayuan Li. 2021. "Area, lake-level and volume variations of typical lakes on the Tibetan Plateau and their response to climate change, 1972–2019." Geo-spatial Information Science , no. : 1-16.

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Published: 01 June 2021 in Sustainability
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As a potential adsorbent material, loose, porous livestock manure biochar provides a new approach to livestock manure resource utilization. In this study, coconut husks (CH) and livestock manure, i.e., cow dung (CD), pig manure (PM), and chicken manure (CM) were used as biomass precursors for preparation of biochar via high-temperature pyrolysis and CO2 activation. Characterization technologies, such as scanning electron microscopy, Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy, adsorption–desorption isotherms, and pore size distributions, were used to study the microscopic morphologies and physicochemical properties of unactivated and activated biochar materials. The results showed that CD biochar provides better adsorption performance (up to 29.81 mg H2S/g) than CM or PM biochar. After activation at 650° for 1 h, the best adsorption performance was 38.23 mg H2S/g. For comparison, the CH biochar removal performance was 30.44 mg H2S/g. Its best performance was 38.73 mg H2S/g after 1 h of activation at 750 °C. Its best removal performance is equivalent to that of CH biochar activated at a temperature that is 100 °C higher. Further material characterization indicates that the H2S removal performance of livestock-manure–derived biochar is not entirely dependent on the specific surface area, but is closely related to the pore size distribution.

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Lianghu Su; Mei Chen; Guihua Zhuo; Rongting Ji; Saier Wang; Longjiang Zhang; Mingzhu Zhang; Haidong Li. Comparison of Biochar Materials Derived from Coconut Husks and Various Types of Livestock Manure, and Their Potential for Use in Removal of H2S from Biogas. Sustainability 2021, 13, 6262 .

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Lianghu Su, Mei Chen, Guihua Zhuo, Rongting Ji, Saier Wang, Longjiang Zhang, Mingzhu Zhang, Haidong Li. Comparison of Biochar Materials Derived from Coconut Husks and Various Types of Livestock Manure, and Their Potential for Use in Removal of H2S from Biogas. Sustainability. 2021; 13 (11):6262.

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Lianghu Su; Mei Chen; Guihua Zhuo; Rongting Ji; Saier Wang; Longjiang Zhang; Mingzhu Zhang; Haidong Li. 2021. "Comparison of Biochar Materials Derived from Coconut Husks and Various Types of Livestock Manure, and Their Potential for Use in Removal of H2S from Biogas." Sustainability 13, no. 11: 6262.

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Published: 29 August 2020 in Ecological Indicators
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The Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau (QTP), as the “third pole of the earth”, is China's the source of many driving ecological factors in China. However, in the context of increasing global change, the QTP is facing increasing ecological and environmental problems, such as vegetation degradation and land surface temperature (LST) changes. Here, we first analyzed the spatiotemporal trends in the optimized soil-adjusted vegetation index (OSAVI) and the LST. Then, we explored the relationship of vegetation and LST changes to climatic factors. Finally, we calculated the response relationship of the spatial and temporal changes in vegetation and LST to global climate change. The results show that from 2001 to 2016, the vegetation coverage on the QTP showed an overall upward trend, with significant spatial and temporal heterogeneity. The average annual increase in the OSAVI value was 0.0071, and the areas with significant OSAVI change trends accounted for 26.3% of the study area. Both OSAVI and LST showed a significant decreasing change trend with increasing altitude. From 2001 to 2016, the LST on the QTP generally showed an upward trend, with a variation of 0.3824 °C. Most of the LST peaks occured around July in each year, and climate warming will cause the peak time to occur earlier. In terms of spatial distribution, the change rate of the LST trend over the southern Himalaya and Hengduan Mountains was more than 40%. The LST in this area was negatively correlated with OSAVI, and the annual mean value of OSAVI showed a negative trend in this area, with a change rate of 10%. In the QTP region, from 2001 to 2016, climate change affected vegetation growth and surface temperature trends. During the growing season, spring and summer, OSAVI had a significant positive correlations with the atmospheric temperature (AT), but not with precipitation. In the same seasons, LST and AT showed very significant positive correlations, but were not correlated with precipitation. In autumn, OSAVI had no correlation with AT or precipitation, while LST had a positive correlation with AT and precipitation.

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Fengli Zou; Haidong Li; Qingwu Hu. Responses of vegetation greening and land surface temperature variations to global warming on the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau, 2001–2016. Ecological Indicators 2020, 119, 106867 .

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Fengli Zou, Haidong Li, Qingwu Hu. Responses of vegetation greening and land surface temperature variations to global warming on the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau, 2001–2016. Ecological Indicators. 2020; 119 ():106867.

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Fengli Zou; Haidong Li; Qingwu Hu. 2020. "Responses of vegetation greening and land surface temperature variations to global warming on the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau, 2001–2016." Ecological Indicators 119, no. : 106867.

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Published: 13 January 2020 in Ecosphere
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The ecological restoration of aeolian sandy land has not only improved the function of ecosystem services, such as wind prevention and sand fixation, but has also indirectly reduced the regional economic losses caused by sandstorms. However, the interaction between vegetation and soil properties after natural and artificial restoration of the sandy land in southern Tibetan Plateau has not been sufficiently studied. In the present study, we selected four vegetation types, including artificial forest (A), revegetated shrub (B), natural shrub (C), and natural grassland (D), in the sandy land in the middle reaches of the Yarlung Zangbo River basin, Tibet, China, and investigated the changes in soil particle size and nutrients at depths of 0–20 cm and 20–40 cm, finally examining the potential relationships between soil properties and leaf nutrients. Our results indicated that in the topsoil (0–20 cm), the natural shrub (C) and natural grassland (D) have greater silt content, recorded as 50.77% and 62.16%, respectively, compared to the artificial forest (A) and revegetated shrub (B). Natural grassland (D) had the highest silt content and the lowest soil bulk density (SBD) among the four vegetation types. There was no significant difference in the soil organic matter (SOM) in the topsoil of the different vegetation types. However, at the depth of 20–40 cm, the SOM content of the different vegetation types was in the following order: natural grassland (D) (23.37 g/kg) > natural shrub (C) (17.42 g/kg) > revegetated shrub (B) (14.85 g/kg) > artificial forest (A) (8.43 g/kg). The ammonium nitrogen content (NH4‐N) in the revegetated shrub (B) was higher compared to the other vegetation types. The SOM content was significantly correlated with the total phosphorus (TP) and available phosphorus (AP) of the sandy land. The leaf total carbon, nitrogen, and phosphorus exhibited a positive correlation with SBD, AP, and available potassium. These findings can provide useful information to optimize the patterns of natural and artificial restoration for controlling desertification in similar eco‐regions.

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Chengrui Liao; Haidong Li; Guoping Lv; Jiarong Tian; Yannan Xu. Effects of ecological restoration on soil properties of the aeolian sandy land around Lhasa, southern Tibetan Plateau. Ecosphere 2020, 11, 1 .

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Chengrui Liao, Haidong Li, Guoping Lv, Jiarong Tian, Yannan Xu. Effects of ecological restoration on soil properties of the aeolian sandy land around Lhasa, southern Tibetan Plateau. Ecosphere. 2020; 11 (1):1.

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Chengrui Liao; Haidong Li; Guoping Lv; Jiarong Tian; Yannan Xu. 2020. "Effects of ecological restoration on soil properties of the aeolian sandy land around Lhasa, southern Tibetan Plateau." Ecosphere 11, no. 1: 1.

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Published: 27 June 2019 in Forests
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Research Highlights: This study carried out a feasibility analysis on the tree height extraction of a planted coniferous forest with high canopy density by combining terrestrial laser scanner (TLS) and unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) image–based point cloud data at small and midsize tree farms. Background and Objectives: Tree height is an important factor for forest resource surveys. This information plays an important role in forest structure evaluation and forest stock estimation. The objectives of this study were to solve the problem of underestimating tree height and to guarantee the precision of tree height extraction in medium and high-density planted coniferous forests. Materials and Methods: This study developed a novel individual tree localization (ITL)-based tree height extraction method to obtain preliminary results in a planted coniferous forest plots with 107 trees (Metasequoia). Then, the final accurate results were achieved based on the canopy height model (CHM) and CHM seed points (CSP). Results: The registration accuracy of the TLS and UAV image-based point cloud data reached 6 cm. The authors optimized the precision of tree height extraction using the ITL-based method by improving CHM resolution from 0.2 m to 0.1 m. Due to the overlapping of forest canopies, the CSP method failed to delineate all individual tree crowns in medium to high-density forest stands with the matching rates of about 75%. However, the accuracy of CSP-based tree height extraction showed obvious advantages compared with the ITL-based method. Conclusion: The proposed method provided a solid foundation for dynamically monitoring forest resources in a high-accuracy and low-cost way, especially in planted tree farms.

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Jiarong Tian; Tingting Dai; Haidong Li; Chengrui Liao; Wenxiu Teng; Qingwu Hu; Weibo Ma; Yannan Xu. A Novel Tree Height Extraction Approach for Individual Trees by Combining TLS and UAV Image-Based Point Cloud Integration. Forests 2019, 10, 537 .

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Jiarong Tian, Tingting Dai, Haidong Li, Chengrui Liao, Wenxiu Teng, Qingwu Hu, Weibo Ma, Yannan Xu. A Novel Tree Height Extraction Approach for Individual Trees by Combining TLS and UAV Image-Based Point Cloud Integration. Forests. 2019; 10 (7):537.

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Jiarong Tian; Tingting Dai; Haidong Li; Chengrui Liao; Wenxiu Teng; Qingwu Hu; Weibo Ma; Yannan Xu. 2019. "A Novel Tree Height Extraction Approach for Individual Trees by Combining TLS and UAV Image-Based Point Cloud Integration." Forests 10, no. 7: 537.

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Published: 01 June 2019 in Agriculture, Ecosystems & Environment
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The Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau (QTP) is one of the most difficult eco-regions for revegetation on degraded grassland because of its harsh environment. Micro-topography could affect habitat conditions important to ecological restoration on sandy land; however, the interaction between revegetation and micro-topography has been rarely reported on sand dunes of the QTP. Here, we quantified vegetation (including coverage, leaf area index (LAI), height, and crown diameter) and micro-topographic parameters (including elevation, slope, and aspect) to assess the effects of topography on revegetation using field observation data during 2008–2017 and terrestrial laser scanning (TLS) in 2017. The results showed that: 1) the tested plant species for revegetation has changed significantly from 2008 to 2017, and the current dominant plant species were mainly introduced from north China, including Hedysarum scoparium, H. fruticosum, and Artemisia sphaerocephala. 2) The effectiveness of revegetation has been improved remarkably over the past ten years. The vegetation coverage varies from 68.4% to 80.5% at four big quadrats of 20 m × 20 m, while the LAI value varies from 2.30 to 3.27, the shrub height ranges from 1.12 m to 7.57 m, and the crown diameter ranges from 0.24 m to 6.96 m. 3) A total of 153 shrubs were extracted in these four quadrats using TLS; and 56.9%, 21.6% and 10.5% of them are distributed on the southeastern, southern, and eastern aspects, respectively. The height and crown diameter of individual shrubs are significantly correlated with the local slope (p < 0.05) of which could affect the distribution of artificial seeding. These results suggest that aspect and slope are two key limiting factors for revegetation, and the habitat conditions on the southeastern and eastern aspects favor revegetation on valley-slope sand dunes. These findings provide a useful guidance in developing an integrated ecological restoration plan for sand dunes and selecting the best practice management of ecosystem services on degraded grassland on the QTP.

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Haidong Li; Jixi Gao; Qingwu Hu; Yingkui Li; Jiarong Tian; Chengrui Liao; Weibo Ma; Yannan Xu. Assessing revegetation effectiveness on an extremely degraded grassland, southern Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau, using terrestrial LiDAR and field data. Agriculture, Ecosystems & Environment 2019, 282, 13 -22.

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Haidong Li, Jixi Gao, Qingwu Hu, Yingkui Li, Jiarong Tian, Chengrui Liao, Weibo Ma, Yannan Xu. Assessing revegetation effectiveness on an extremely degraded grassland, southern Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau, using terrestrial LiDAR and field data. Agriculture, Ecosystems & Environment. 2019; 282 ():13-22.

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Haidong Li; Jixi Gao; Qingwu Hu; Yingkui Li; Jiarong Tian; Chengrui Liao; Weibo Ma; Yannan Xu. 2019. "Assessing revegetation effectiveness on an extremely degraded grassland, southern Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau, using terrestrial LiDAR and field data." Agriculture, Ecosystems & Environment 282, no. : 13-22.

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Published: 24 April 2019 in Scientific Reports
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Revegetation on sandy land has attracted worldwide attention, especially on the extremely fragile alpine eco-region of the Tibetan Plateau. However, the effectiveness of revegetation and its controlling factors have rarely been reported. We collected plant growths and species composition from seven field sites in 2011 and conducted a follow-up random investigation in 2016. The indicators, including richness and diversity, were used to compare the differences among these sites based on redundancy and cluster analyses. The results indicated that plant growth has different characteristics in different land types. The distribution and growth of Artemisia sphaerocephala, Artemisia younghusbandii and Heteropappus gouldii varied with topography, and the crown widths of A. sphaerocephala were 100.6 cm × 87.2 cm on barchan dune and 26.0 cm × 25.4 cm on moving sandy land at valley slopes. These species are likely the pioneer plants for revegetation on sandy land. It seems that sand-protecting barriers play an important role in revegetation. The stone and plastic checkerboard barriers increase plant diversity, while straw barrier promotes the plant growth. These findings provide useful guidance to the ongoing vegetation recovery on sandy land, an important component of the Project on Construction and Protection of Ecological Security Barriers on the Tibetan Plateau.

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Chengrui Liao; Beichen Liu; Yannan Xu; Yingkui Li; Haidong Li. Effect of topography and protecting barriers on revegetation of sandy land, Southern Tibetan Plateau. Scientific Reports 2019, 9, 6501 .

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Chengrui Liao, Beichen Liu, Yannan Xu, Yingkui Li, Haidong Li. Effect of topography and protecting barriers on revegetation of sandy land, Southern Tibetan Plateau. Scientific Reports. 2019; 9 (1):6501.

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Chengrui Liao; Beichen Liu; Yannan Xu; Yingkui Li; Haidong Li. 2019. "Effect of topography and protecting barriers on revegetation of sandy land, Southern Tibetan Plateau." Scientific Reports 9, no. 1: 6501.

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Published: 07 November 2018 in Remote Sensing
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Street trees are an important part of urban facilities, and they can provide both aesthetic benefits and ecological benefits for urban environments. Ecological benefits of street trees now are attracting more attention because of environmental deterioration in cities. Conventional methods of evaluating ecological benefits require a lot of labor and time, and establishing an efficient and effective evaluating method is challenging. In this study, we investigated the feasibility to use mobile laser scanning (MLS) data to evaluate carbon sequestration and fine particulate matter (PM2.5) removal of street trees. We explored the approach to extract individual street trees from MLS data, and street trees of three streets in Nantong City were extracted. The correctness rates and completeness rates of extraction results were both over 92%. Morphological parameters, including tree height, crown width, and diameter at breast height (DBH), were measured for extracted street trees, and parameters derived from MLS data were in a good agreement with field-measured parameters. Necessary information about street trees, including tree height, DBH, and tree species, meteorological data and PM2.5 deposition velocities were imported into i-Tree Eco model to estimate carbon sequestration and PM2.5 removal. The estimation results indicated that ecological benefits generated by different tree species were considerably varied and the differences for trees of the same species were mainly caused by the differences in morphological parameters (tree height and DBH). This study succeeds in estimating the amount of carbon sequestration and PM2.5 removal of individual street trees with MLS data, and provides researchers with a novel and efficient way to investigate ecological benefits of urban street trees or urban forests.

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Yingyi Zhao; Qingwu Hu; Haidong Li; Shaohua Wang; Mingyao Ai. Evaluating Carbon Sequestration and PM2.5 Removal of Urban Street Trees Using Mobile Laser Scanning Data. Remote Sensing 2018, 10, 1759 .

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Yingyi Zhao, Qingwu Hu, Haidong Li, Shaohua Wang, Mingyao Ai. Evaluating Carbon Sequestration and PM2.5 Removal of Urban Street Trees Using Mobile Laser Scanning Data. Remote Sensing. 2018; 10 (11):1759.

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Yingyi Zhao; Qingwu Hu; Haidong Li; Shaohua Wang; Mingyao Ai. 2018. "Evaluating Carbon Sequestration and PM2.5 Removal of Urban Street Trees Using Mobile Laser Scanning Data." Remote Sensing 10, no. 11: 1759.

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Published: 30 September 2017 in Water
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Climate change and increasing human activities have induced lake expansion or shrinkage, posing a serious threat to the ecological security on the Inner Mongolian Plateau, China. However, the pattern of lake changes and how it responds to climate change and revegetation have rarely been reported. We investigated the pattern of lake-area changes in the Dalinor National Nature Reserve (DNR) using Landsat imagery during 1976–2015, and examined its relationship with changes in climate and vegetation factors. The total lake-area in the DNR has decreased by 11.6% from 1976 to 2015 with a rate of −0.55 km2 year−1. The largest Dalinor Lake reduced the most (by 32.7 km2) with a rate of −0.79 km2 year−1. The air temperature has increased significantly since 1976, with a rate of 0.03 °C year−1 (p < 0.05), while the precipitation slightly decreased during 1976–2015, with a rate of −0.86 mm year−1. The Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) increased by 27.7% from 1976 to 2015, especially after 2001 when vegetation has been promoted greatly as a result of the successful ecological protection and restoration in the Dalinor basin. The decrease in lake-areas for the DNR exhibited a negative correlation with NDVI (r = −0.397, p < 0.05) during 1976–2015. It seems that decreasing precipitation drives the reduction in lake-area, while rising temperature and vegetation greenness accelerated this decreasing trend by increasing evapotranspiration. The continuous lake shrinkage increases the ecological risks to the habitat of birds, causing a challenge to the management in the DNR.

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Haidong Li; Yuanyun Gao; Yingkui Li; Shouguang Yan; Yuyue Xu. Dynamic of Dalinor Lakes in the Inner Mongolian Plateau and Its Driving Factors during 1976–2015. Water 2017, 9, 749 .

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Haidong Li, Yuanyun Gao, Yingkui Li, Shouguang Yan, Yuyue Xu. Dynamic of Dalinor Lakes in the Inner Mongolian Plateau and Its Driving Factors during 1976–2015. Water. 2017; 9 (10):749.

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Haidong Li; Yuanyun Gao; Yingkui Li; Shouguang Yan; Yuyue Xu. 2017. "Dynamic of Dalinor Lakes in the Inner Mongolian Plateau and Its Driving Factors during 1976–2015." Water 9, no. 10: 749.

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Published: 01 February 2017 in Atmospheric Environment
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Yuyue Xu; Changqing Ke; Wenfeng Zhan; Haidong Li; Ling Yao. Variations in satellite-derived carbon dioxide over different regions of China from 2003 to 2011. Atmospheric Environment 2017, 150, 379 -388.

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Yuyue Xu, Changqing Ke, Wenfeng Zhan, Haidong Li, Ling Yao. Variations in satellite-derived carbon dioxide over different regions of China from 2003 to 2011. Atmospheric Environment. 2017; 150 ():379-388.

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Yuyue Xu; Changqing Ke; Wenfeng Zhan; Haidong Li; Ling Yao. 2017. "Variations in satellite-derived carbon dioxide over different regions of China from 2003 to 2011." Atmospheric Environment 150, no. : 379-388.

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Published: 08 November 2016 in Sustainability
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Human impact plays an increasing role on vegetation change even on the Tibetan Plateau, an area that is commonly regarded as an ideal place to study climate change. We evaluate the nature and extent of human impact on vegetation dynamics by the comparison of two areas: the relative highly populated Lhasa area and a nearby less populated Lhari County. Our results indicate that human impact has mainly decreased vegetation greenness within 20 km of the urban area and major constructions during 1999–2013. However, the impact of human activities in a relatively large area is still minor and does not reverse the major trends of vegetation dynamics caused by the warming temperature in recent decades. It seems that the impact of anthropogenic factors on the normalized difference vegetation index (NDVI) trend is more apparent in the Lhasa area than in Lhari County. The major anthropogenic driving factor for vegetation browning in the Lhasa area is livestock number, while the factors, including the number of rural laborers and artificial forest areas, are positively correlated with the annual NDVI increase. The similar relationship between the annual NDVI and driving factors appeared in Lhari County, except for artificial forest areas. The warming temperature and the change in precipitation played dominant roles on vegetation greening in Lhari County than that in the Lhasa area.

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Haidong Li; Yingkui Li; Yuanyun Gao; Changxin Zou; Shouguang Yan; Jixi Gao. Human Impact on Vegetation Dynamics around Lhasa, Southern Tibetan Plateau, China. Sustainability 2016, 8, 1146 .

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Haidong Li, Yingkui Li, Yuanyun Gao, Changxin Zou, Shouguang Yan, Jixi Gao. Human Impact on Vegetation Dynamics around Lhasa, Southern Tibetan Plateau, China. Sustainability. 2016; 8 (11):1146.

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Haidong Li; Yingkui Li; Yuanyun Gao; Changxin Zou; Shouguang Yan; Jixi Gao. 2016. "Human Impact on Vegetation Dynamics around Lhasa, Southern Tibetan Plateau, China." Sustainability 8, no. 11: 1146.

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Published: 08 December 2015 in Remote Sensing
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The Yarlung Zangbo River basin is an important alley to transport moisture from the Indian Ocean to the inner Tibetan Plateau. With a wide range of elevations from 147 m to over 7000 m above sea level (a.s.l.), ecosystems respond differently to climate change at various elevations. However, the pattern of elevation-dependent vegetation change and how it responds to recent warming have been rarely reported. Here, we investigated the pattern of vegetation greening at different elevations in this river basin using SPOT normalized difference vegetation index (NDVI) data during 1999–2013, and examined its relationship with elevation-dependent changes in temperature and precipitation. The annual NDVI has increased by 8.83% from 1999 to 2013. In particular, the NDVI increased more apparently at lower elevations, but remained relatively stable or even decreased at high elevations. It seems that rising temperature has driven the basin-wide vegetation greening, but the greening rate is in contrast to the pattern of elevation-dependent warming (EDW) with more significant temperature increase at higher elevations. It appears that decreasing precipitation does not reverse the overall increasing trend in NDVI, but relatively limited precipitation (4000 m).

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Haidong Li; Yingkui Li; Weishou Shen; Yanan Li; Jie Lin; Xiaoyu Lu; Xia Xu; Jiang Jiang. Elevation-Dependent Vegetation Greening of the Yarlung Zangbo River Basin in the Southern Tibetan Plateau, 1999–2013. Remote Sensing 2015, 7, 16672 -16687.

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Haidong Li, Yingkui Li, Weishou Shen, Yanan Li, Jie Lin, Xiaoyu Lu, Xia Xu, Jiang Jiang. Elevation-Dependent Vegetation Greening of the Yarlung Zangbo River Basin in the Southern Tibetan Plateau, 1999–2013. Remote Sensing. 2015; 7 (12):16672-16687.

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Haidong Li; Yingkui Li; Weishou Shen; Yanan Li; Jie Lin; Xiaoyu Lu; Xia Xu; Jiang Jiang. 2015. "Elevation-Dependent Vegetation Greening of the Yarlung Zangbo River Basin in the Southern Tibetan Plateau, 1999–2013." Remote Sensing 7, no. 12: 16672-16687.