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Bojie Fu
State Key Laboratory of Earth Surface Processes and Resource Ecology, Faculty of Geographical Science, Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875, PR China

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Journal article
Published: 07 August 2021 in Ecosystem Services
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Integrating multiple external and internal processes into the evaluation of how payments for ecosystem services (PES) programs can affect socioeconomic outcomes allows us to distinguish the relative importance of each factor and identify specific strategies to enhance the desired outcomes of PES programs; yet, the methods available are limited. Based on the framework of metacoupling (human-nature interactions within and across adjacent and distant places), we developed an approach to distinguish the contributions and pathways of multiple influencing factors to socioeconomic outcomes by integrating linkages between influencing factors, livelihood activities, and socioeconomic outcomes. Here, the approach’s operationalization is empirically demonstrated by identifying the impact of the Grain for Green Program (GFGP) and other external and internal factors influencing rural household income in China’s Loess Plateau. We find that the local economy and investment rather than the GFGP were the dominant factors affecting income. With improved understanding of the pathways, several suggestions are proposed for the design and implementation of GFGP and other PES programs around the world. Our study highlights the necessity of applying integrated factors in evaluating socioeconomic effects of PES — a crucial input for guiding practice of PES programs to support sustainable development.

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Xutong Wu; Jianguo Liu; Bojie Fu; Shuai Wang; Yongping Wei. Integrating multiple influencing factors in evaluating the socioeconomic effects of payments for ecosystem services. Ecosystem Services 2021, 51, 101348 .

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Xutong Wu, Jianguo Liu, Bojie Fu, Shuai Wang, Yongping Wei. Integrating multiple influencing factors in evaluating the socioeconomic effects of payments for ecosystem services. Ecosystem Services. 2021; 51 ():101348.

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Xutong Wu; Jianguo Liu; Bojie Fu; Shuai Wang; Yongping Wei. 2021. "Integrating multiple influencing factors in evaluating the socioeconomic effects of payments for ecosystem services." Ecosystem Services 51, no. : 101348.

Journal article
Published: 05 June 2021 in Journal of Hydrology
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Streamflow and sediment load exporting from catchments usually show high inter-variability caused by climate variability and land surface changes. It is challenge to predict monthly or daily streamflow and sediment load using simply statistical methods. The state-space model is an effective tool for quantifying localized variations, and it only needs some easily obtained climate and land surface variables. However, there is no state-space model developed to predict the long-term variations of monthly streamflow, sediment load and suspended sediment concentration. In this study, fourteen main catchments in the Loess Plateau of China were chosen, and these catchments experienced abrupt reductions of annual streamflow (Q), specific sediment yield (SSY) and suspended sediment concentration (SSC) during the past five decades. The state-space model was developed to predict monthly Q, SSY and SSC during 1982–2011 by precipitation, potential evapotranspiration and normalized difference vegetation index. The results indicated that the monthly Q, SSY and SSC in summer season decreased significantly in nearly all the catchments (p < 0.01). The periodicity of monthly Q, SSY and SSC reduced, and especially the periodicity was not detected after 2003. The precipitation and previous Q were the two main state variables to estimate monthly Q with transition coefficients of 0.56 and 0.25, respectively, whereas Q and previous SSC were the most important state variables to estimate monthly SSY and SSC with transition coefficients of 0.50 and 0.34, respectively. The state-space model was satisfactory to simulate monthly Q, SSY and SSC with Nash-Sutcliffe model efficiency (NSE) over 0.85 in model calibration and validation. Furthermore, the model performance was best for predicting monthly Q, followed by predicting monthly SSY and SSC with the average NSE of 0.90, 0.89 and 0.87, respectively. The reductions of monthly streamflow and sediment load were mainly derived by soil and water conservation measures (SWCMs) and especially check-dams. The catchment runoff and sediment coefficient decreased significantly and linearly with the percentages of area affected by SWCMs (p < 0.01). This study indicates that the state-space model is a useful tool to predict streamflow and sediment load time series with the hydrological and land surface informations.

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Guangyao Gao; Zhen Ning; Zhenwei Li; Bojie Fu. Prediction of long-term inter-seasonal variations of streamflow and sediment load by state-space model in the Loess Plateau of China. Journal of Hydrology 2021, 600, 126534 .

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Guangyao Gao, Zhen Ning, Zhenwei Li, Bojie Fu. Prediction of long-term inter-seasonal variations of streamflow and sediment load by state-space model in the Loess Plateau of China. Journal of Hydrology. 2021; 600 ():126534.

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Guangyao Gao; Zhen Ning; Zhenwei Li; Bojie Fu. 2021. "Prediction of long-term inter-seasonal variations of streamflow and sediment load by state-space model in the Loess Plateau of China." Journal of Hydrology 600, no. : 126534.

Journal article
Published: 18 April 2021 in Geography and Sustainability
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The great challenges of sustainable development highlight an urgent need to systematically understand the mechanisms linking humans and nature. Resources and Environmental Sciences are a broad and practical discipline focused on coupled human and natural systems. They aim to study the formation and evolution of resources in the earth system, the drivers of various environmental problems, processes and relationships between resources and the environment, particularly under the combined impacts of natural conditions and human activities. The major resources and environmental problems drive the discipline development; international science programmes guide the direction of the discipline; interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary integration promotes new branches of the discipline; and technological progress results in a research paradigm shift. Facing the critical research requirements of strengthening trans- and interdisciplinarity, breaking through the key technology, targeting major environmental and disaster issues, and supporting sustainable development, nine critical scientific issues should be focused on climate change impact and adaptation, petroleum and mineral resources, water cycle and water resources, soil and land resources, ecosystems, remote sensing and geographic information science, environmental science and technology, disaster risk, and global and regional sustainable development. Suggestions to enhancing funding systems, improve talent cultivation, develop scientific platforms, and strength international cooperation are provided in this study to support scientific policymaking. The promotion of Resources and Environmental Sciences enables a more comprehensive and in-depth understanding of economic development and environmental changes relevant to assure a more sustainable global development.

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Bojie Fu; Yanxu Liu; Yan Li; Cong Wang; Changjia Li; Wei Jiang; Ting Hua; Wenwu Zhao. The research priorities of Resources and Environmental Sciences. Geography and Sustainability 2021, 2, 87 -94.

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Bojie Fu, Yanxu Liu, Yan Li, Cong Wang, Changjia Li, Wei Jiang, Ting Hua, Wenwu Zhao. The research priorities of Resources and Environmental Sciences. Geography and Sustainability. 2021; 2 (2):87-94.

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Bojie Fu; Yanxu Liu; Yan Li; Cong Wang; Changjia Li; Wei Jiang; Ting Hua; Wenwu Zhao. 2021. "The research priorities of Resources and Environmental Sciences." Geography and Sustainability 2, no. 2: 87-94.

Journal article
Published: 29 March 2021 in Remote Sensing
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Changes in the land use/cover alter the Earth system processes and affect the provision of ecosystem services, posing a challenge to achieve sustainable development. In the past few decades, the Yellow River (YR) basin faced enormous social and environmental sustainability challenges associated with environmental degradation, soil erosion, vegetation restoration, and economic development, which makes it important to understand the long-term land use/cover dynamics of this region. Here, using three decades of Landsat imagery (17,080 images) and incorporating physiography data, we developed an effective annual land use/cover mapping framework and provided a set of 90 m resolution continuous annual land use/cover maps of the YR basin from 1986 to 2018 based on the Google Earth Engine and the Classification and Regression Trees algorithm. The independent random sampling validations based on the field surveys (640 points) and Google Earth (3456 points) indicated that the overall accuracy of these maps is 78.3% and 80.0%, respectively. The analysis of the land system of the YR basin showed that this region presents complex temporal and spatial changes, and the main change patterns include no change or little change, cropland loss and urban expansion, grassland restoration, increase in orchard and terrace, and increase in forest during the entire study period. The major land use/cover change has occurred in the transitions from forests, grasslands, and croplands to the class of orchard and terrace (19.8% of all change area), which not only increase the greenness but also raised the income, suggesting that YR progress towards sustainable development goals for livelihood security, economic growth, and ecological protection. Based on these data and analysis, we can further understand the role of the land system in the mutual feedback between society and the environment, and provide support for ecological conservation, high-quality development, and the formulation of sustainable management policies in this basin, highlighting the importance of continuous land use/cover information for understanding the interactions between the human and natural systems.

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Qiulei Ji; Wei Liang; Bojie Fu; Weibin Zhang; Jianwu Yan; Yihe Lü; Chao Yue; Zhao Jin; Zhiyang Lan; Siya Li; Pan Yang. Mapping Land Use/Cover Dynamics of the Yellow River Basin from 1986 to 2018 Supported by Google Earth Engine. Remote Sensing 2021, 13, 1299 .

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Qiulei Ji, Wei Liang, Bojie Fu, Weibin Zhang, Jianwu Yan, Yihe Lü, Chao Yue, Zhao Jin, Zhiyang Lan, Siya Li, Pan Yang. Mapping Land Use/Cover Dynamics of the Yellow River Basin from 1986 to 2018 Supported by Google Earth Engine. Remote Sensing. 2021; 13 (7):1299.

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Qiulei Ji; Wei Liang; Bojie Fu; Weibin Zhang; Jianwu Yan; Yihe Lü; Chao Yue; Zhao Jin; Zhiyang Lan; Siya Li; Pan Yang. 2021. "Mapping Land Use/Cover Dynamics of the Yellow River Basin from 1986 to 2018 Supported by Google Earth Engine." Remote Sensing 13, no. 7: 1299.

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Published: 28 March 2021 in Remote Sensing
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Water stress is one of the primary environmental factors that limits terrestrial ecosystems’ productivity. Hense, the way to quantify gobal vegetation productivity’s vulnerability under water stress and reveal its seasonal dynamics in response to drought is of great significance in mitigating and adapting to global changes. Here, we estimated monthly gross primary productivity (GPP) first based on light-use efficiency (LUE) models for 1982–2015. GPP’s response time to water availability can be determined by correlating the monthly GPP series with the multiple timescale Standardized Precipitation Evapotranspiration Index (SPEI). Thereafter, we developed an optimal bivariate probabilistic model to derive the vegetation productivity loss probabilities under different drought scenarios using the copula method. The results showed that LUE models have a good fit and estimate GPP well (R2 exceeded 0.7). GPP is expected to decrease in 71.91% of the global land vegetation area because of increases in radiation and temperature and decreases in soil moisture during drought periods. Largely, we found that vegetation productivity and water availability are correlated positively globally. The vegetation productivity in arid and semiarid areas depends considerably upon water availability compared to that in humid and semi-humid areas. Weak drought resistance often characterizes the land cover types that water availability influences more. In addition, under the scenario of the same level of GPP damage with different drought degrees, as droughts increase in severity, GPP loss probabilities increase as well. Further, under the same drought severity with different levels of GPP damage, drought’s effect on GPP loss probabilities weaken gradually as the GPP damage level increaes. Similar patterns were observed in different seasons. Our results showed that arid and semiarid areas have higher conditional probabilities of vegetation productivity losses under different drought scenarios.

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Yuan Zhang; XiaoMing Feng; Bojie Fu; Yongzhe Chen; Xiaofeng Wang. Satellite-Observed Global Terrestrial Vegetation Production in Response to Water Availability. Remote Sensing 2021, 13, 1289 .

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Yuan Zhang, XiaoMing Feng, Bojie Fu, Yongzhe Chen, Xiaofeng Wang. Satellite-Observed Global Terrestrial Vegetation Production in Response to Water Availability. Remote Sensing. 2021; 13 (7):1289.

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Yuan Zhang; XiaoMing Feng; Bojie Fu; Yongzhe Chen; Xiaofeng Wang. 2021. "Satellite-Observed Global Terrestrial Vegetation Production in Response to Water Availability." Remote Sensing 13, no. 7: 1289.

Short review
Published: 17 March 2021 in Science Bulletin
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Jian Sun; Bojie Fu; Wenwu Zhao; Shiliang Liu; Guohua Liu; Huakun Zhou; Xinqing Shao; Youchao Chen; Yu Zhang; Yanfang Deng. Optimizing grazing exclusion practices to achieve Goal 15 of the sustainable development goals in the Tibetan Plateau. Science Bulletin 2021, 66, 1493 -1496.

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Jian Sun, Bojie Fu, Wenwu Zhao, Shiliang Liu, Guohua Liu, Huakun Zhou, Xinqing Shao, Youchao Chen, Yu Zhang, Yanfang Deng. Optimizing grazing exclusion practices to achieve Goal 15 of the sustainable development goals in the Tibetan Plateau. Science Bulletin. 2021; 66 (15):1493-1496.

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Jian Sun; Bojie Fu; Wenwu Zhao; Shiliang Liu; Guohua Liu; Huakun Zhou; Xinqing Shao; Youchao Chen; Yu Zhang; Yanfang Deng. 2021. "Optimizing grazing exclusion practices to achieve Goal 15 of the sustainable development goals in the Tibetan Plateau." Science Bulletin 66, no. 15: 1493-1496.

Review article
Published: 09 March 2021 in Nature Reviews Earth & Environment
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Drylands are an essential component of the Earth System and are among the most vulnerable to climate change. In this Review, we synthesize observational and modelling evidence to demonstrate emerging differences in dryland aridity dependent on the specific metric considered. Although warming heightens vapour pressure deficit and, thus, atmospheric demand for water in both the observations and the projections, these changes do not wholly propagate to exacerbate soil moisture and runoff deficits. Moreover, counter-intuitively, many arid ecosystems have exhibited significant greening and enhanced vegetation productivity since the 1980s. Such divergence between atmospheric and ecohydrological aridity changes can primarily be related to moisture limitations by dry soils and plant physiological regulations of evapotranspiration under elevated CO2. The latter process ameliorates water stress on plant growth and decelerates warming-enhanced water losses from soils, while simultaneously warming and drying the near-surface air. We place these climate-induced aridity changes in the context of exacerbated water scarcity driven by rapidly increasing anthropogenic needs for freshwater to support population growth and economic development. Under future warming, dryland ecosystems might respond non-linearly, caused by, for example, complex ecosystem–hydrology–human interactions and increased mortality risks from drought and heat stress, which is a foremost priority for future research. Estimates of global dryland changes are often conflicting. This Review discusses and quantifies observed and projected aridity changes, revealing divergent responses between atmospheric and ecohydrological metrics that can be explained by plant physiological responses to elevated CO2.

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Xu Lian; Shilong Piao; Anping Chen; Chris Huntingford; Bojie Fu; Laurent Z. X. Li; Jianping Huang; Justin Sheffield; Alexis M. Berg; Trevor F. Keenan; Tim R. McVicar; Yoshihide Wada; Xuhui Wang; Tao Wang; Yuting Yang; Michael L. Roderick. Multifaceted characteristics of dryland aridity changes in a warming world. Nature Reviews Earth & Environment 2021, 2, 232 -250.

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Xu Lian, Shilong Piao, Anping Chen, Chris Huntingford, Bojie Fu, Laurent Z. X. Li, Jianping Huang, Justin Sheffield, Alexis M. Berg, Trevor F. Keenan, Tim R. McVicar, Yoshihide Wada, Xuhui Wang, Tao Wang, Yuting Yang, Michael L. Roderick. Multifaceted characteristics of dryland aridity changes in a warming world. Nature Reviews Earth & Environment. 2021; 2 (4):232-250.

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Xu Lian; Shilong Piao; Anping Chen; Chris Huntingford; Bojie Fu; Laurent Z. X. Li; Jianping Huang; Justin Sheffield; Alexis M. Berg; Trevor F. Keenan; Tim R. McVicar; Yoshihide Wada; Xuhui Wang; Tao Wang; Yuting Yang; Michael L. Roderick. 2021. "Multifaceted characteristics of dryland aridity changes in a warming world." Nature Reviews Earth & Environment 2, no. 4: 232-250.

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Published: 04 March 2021
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Coupling Human - Earth Systems for Sustainability

 Bojie Fu

(State Key Lab of Urban and Regional Ecology, Research Centre for Eco-Environmental Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100085, China

Faculty of Geographical Science, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, China)

Human influence on the natural environment has intensified, and the earth has entered the stage of Anthropocene. Earth surface processes are gradually dominated by human behavior, resulting in numerous resources, disasters and ecological problems. The ecosystem services of 60% are degradation in the world. The one of major challenges facing the world’s people are meeting the needs of people today and in the future, and sustaining atmosphere, water, soil and biological products which provided by ecosystems. We will present how to coupling human-earth system and propose the research priorities. They are: (1) Integrating research on multiple processes of water, soil, air and ecosystem; (2) Cascades of ecosystem structure, functions and services; (3) Feedback mechanisms of natural and social systems; (4) Data, models and simulation of sustainable development;(5) Mechanism, approach and policy of sustainable development.Finally, a case study in the Loess plateau of China, an area suffered from severe soil erosion in the world was taken. The changes in four key ecosystem services including water regulation, soil conservation, carbon sequestration, and grain production were assessed and the trade off among the ecosystem services were analysed under the changing landscapes due to the Chinese government’s implementation of the Grain to Green Program (GTGP). We found that ecosystem services convert significantly. The adaptive management strategy was discussed aiming on restoring and improving the sustainable capability of ecosystems providing services, based on the understanding of structure, function and dynamics of ecosystem.

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Bojie Fu. Coupling Human - Earth Systems for Sustainability. 2021, 1 .

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Bojie Fu. 2021. "Coupling Human - Earth Systems for Sustainability." , no. : 1.

Journal article
Published: 23 February 2021 in Geography and Sustainability
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Water resources are a basic need for social sustainable development and human existence. As an important national strategy for water resources security, spatial and temporal patterns and driving mechanisms of water yield ecosystem services on the Qingzang Plateau (QP) are critical for water resources management, optimal water allocation and the improvement of ecological water protection efficiency. However, only a few relevant studies are currently available. In this study, we simulated the water yield (WY) of the QP over 34 years, from 1982 to 2015, using the InVEST model and analyzed the spatiotemporal dynamic relationships between WY and climate change as well as between WY and vegetation change, using geographically weighted regression (GWR) models. The results showed that: 1) from 1982 to 2015, the WY of the QP increased at an average rate of 3.8 mm/yr; 2) WY presented a reduced spatial pattern from southeast to northwest; and 3) the WY driving factors have individual and spatial differences. In terms of the area percentage in promoting WY when analyzing each driving factor, precipitation (99.8%) and air pressure (53.3%) played the major roles in promoting WY, while temperature (71.9%), wind speed (57.2%), net primary productivity (87.2%), radiation (68.3%) and lake (87.7%) played negative roles. The areas where WY are dominated by temperature are the largest (41.1%), and followed by areas dominated by pressure (19.7%) and precipitation (18.5%). The results of this study provide scientific support for formulating regional water resources policy, social and economic development planning and other macro decisions for the QP.

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Xiaofeng Wang; Bingyang Chu; XiaoMing Feng; Yuehao Li; Bojie Fu; Shirong Liu; Jiming Jin. Spatiotemporal variation and driving factors of water yield services on the Qingzang Plateau. Geography and Sustainability 2021, 2, 31 -39.

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Xiaofeng Wang, Bingyang Chu, XiaoMing Feng, Yuehao Li, Bojie Fu, Shirong Liu, Jiming Jin. Spatiotemporal variation and driving factors of water yield services on the Qingzang Plateau. Geography and Sustainability. 2021; 2 (1):31-39.

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Xiaofeng Wang; Bingyang Chu; XiaoMing Feng; Yuehao Li; Bojie Fu; Shirong Liu; Jiming Jin. 2021. "Spatiotemporal variation and driving factors of water yield services on the Qingzang Plateau." Geography and Sustainability 2, no. 1: 31-39.

Journal article
Published: 13 February 2021 in Science Bulletin
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Global vegetation photosynthesis and productivity have increased substantially since the 1980s, but this trend is heterogeneous in both time and space. Here, we categorize the secular trend in global vegetation greenness into sustained greening, sustained browning and greening-to-browning. We found that by 2016, increased global vegetation greenness had begun to level off, with the area of browning increasing in the last decade, reaching 39.0 million km2 (35.9% of the world’s vegetated area). This area is larger than the area with sustained increasing growth (27.8 million km2, 26.4%); thus, 12.0±3.1% (0.019±0.004 NDVI a-1) of the previous earlier increase has been offset since 2010 (2010-2016, P<0.05). Global gross primary production also leveled off, following the trend in vegetation greenness in time and space. This leveling off was caused by increasing soil water limitations due to the spatial expansion of drought, whose impact dominated over the impacts of temperature and solar radiation. This response of global gross primary production to soil water limitation was not identified by land submodels within Earth system models. Our results provide empirical evidence that global vegetation greenness and primary production are offset by water stress and suggest that as global warming continues, land submodels may overestimate the world’s capacity to take up carbon with global vegetation greening.

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XiaoMing Feng; Bojie Fu; Yuan Zhang; Naiqing Pan; Zhenzhong Zeng; Hanqin Tian; Yihe Lyu; Yongzhe Chen; Philippe Ciais; Yingping Wang; Lu Zhang; Lei Cheng; Fernando T. Maestre; Marcos Fernández-Martínez; Jordi Sardans; Josep Peñuelas. Recent leveling off of vegetation greenness and primary production reveals the increasing soil water limitations on the greening Earth. Science Bulletin 2021, 1 .

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XiaoMing Feng, Bojie Fu, Yuan Zhang, Naiqing Pan, Zhenzhong Zeng, Hanqin Tian, Yihe Lyu, Yongzhe Chen, Philippe Ciais, Yingping Wang, Lu Zhang, Lei Cheng, Fernando T. Maestre, Marcos Fernández-Martínez, Jordi Sardans, Josep Peñuelas. Recent leveling off of vegetation greenness and primary production reveals the increasing soil water limitations on the greening Earth. Science Bulletin. 2021; ():1.

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XiaoMing Feng; Bojie Fu; Yuan Zhang; Naiqing Pan; Zhenzhong Zeng; Hanqin Tian; Yihe Lyu; Yongzhe Chen; Philippe Ciais; Yingping Wang; Lu Zhang; Lei Cheng; Fernando T. Maestre; Marcos Fernández-Martínez; Jordi Sardans; Josep Peñuelas. 2021. "Recent leveling off of vegetation greenness and primary production reveals the increasing soil water limitations on the greening Earth." Science Bulletin , no. : 1.

Journal article
Published: 09 February 2021 in Journal of Environmental Management
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Effective ecosystem management on the Tibetan Plateau will contribute to regional environmental sustainability, and these efforts need broad public support, especially that of residents, over the long run. Although residents’ subjective perceptions often directly influence practices, the interactive effects of subjective and objective indicators at the individual level often interfere with resident participation in ecosystem management. With the objective of decoupling the effects of multiple variables on resident participation in environmental sustainability, we launched a questionnaire survey on the topic of willingness to pay (WTP) on the Tibetan Plateau, and explored the effects of single variables and pairwise variables on WTP via dummy regression and proposed specific management suggestions. The results showed that objective indicators were the key drivers of WTP. First, it not only had strong direct effects on WTP (2770.32 CNY/year) but also interacted with subjective beliefs (3805.92 CNY/year); second, it had indirect effects on participation attitudes (R = 0.79) through subjective beliefs (R = 0.38). Put differently, the challenge of achieving sustainable management in the TP is how to enhance and satisfy the sociodemographic and socio-economic attributes of indigenous residents.

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Rui Zhang; Bojie Fu; Kevin Wang; Wenwu Zhao. Objective indicators contribute more than subjective beliefs to resident willingness to pay for ecosystem services on the Tibetan Plateau. Journal of Environmental Management 2021, 285, 112048 .

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Rui Zhang, Bojie Fu, Kevin Wang, Wenwu Zhao. Objective indicators contribute more than subjective beliefs to resident willingness to pay for ecosystem services on the Tibetan Plateau. Journal of Environmental Management. 2021; 285 ():112048.

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Rui Zhang; Bojie Fu; Kevin Wang; Wenwu Zhao. 2021. "Objective indicators contribute more than subjective beliefs to resident willingness to pay for ecosystem services on the Tibetan Plateau." Journal of Environmental Management 285, no. : 112048.

Journal article
Published: 03 February 2021 in Agricultural and Forest Meteorology
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Understanding water use characteristics of revegetation species is crucial for evaluating plant adaptability and guiding the sustainability of vegetation restoration in semiarid regions. Ecological restoration projects have been implemented for decades in degraded ecosystems, achieving significant changes in vegetation cover. However, water use characteristics of the main tree species at different ages remain poorly understood in such systems. We investigated water use characteristics of Robinia pseudoacacia in plantations of different stand-age (18 and 30 years). The species is the most widely planted tree in revegetation efforts on the Loess Plateau. The δ2H and δ18O of xylem and soil water within 500 cm of the soil surface and the δ13C values of plant leaves were measured during two consecutive hydrological years. The results showed that that water uptake proportions from across the soil columns changed in 18-yr R. pseudoacacia between a drier (2016) and wetter year (2017). In contrast, shallow soil water was largely comparable in a stand of 30-yr R. pseudoacacia in 2016 and 2017, and similarly the pattern of water uptake by roots from the middle and deep soil column was comparable. However, leaf-level water use efficiency (WUEi) of trees in the older plantation was higher during the wetter year, thereby partly alleviating a low infiltration to precipitation ratio. These findings suggest that different stand-age plantation trees have distinct water use characteristics and display different responses to variations in precipitation. Older plantation trees respond to increased water availability by increasing WUEi instead of switching water sources. This means that stand-age is an essential factor to be considered in ecological restoration management, which can enhance the effectiveness of vegetation restoration strategies. The study indicates useful input from research to management throughout the continuity of restoration effort.

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Jian Wang; Bojie Fu; Lei Jiao; Nan Lu; Jianye Li; Weiliang Chen; Lixin Wang. Age-related water use characteristics of Robinia pseudoacacia on the Loess Plateau. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology 2021, 301-302, 108344 .

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Jian Wang, Bojie Fu, Lei Jiao, Nan Lu, Jianye Li, Weiliang Chen, Lixin Wang. Age-related water use characteristics of Robinia pseudoacacia on the Loess Plateau. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology. 2021; 301-302 ():108344.

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Jian Wang; Bojie Fu; Lei Jiao; Nan Lu; Jianye Li; Weiliang Chen; Lixin Wang. 2021. "Age-related water use characteristics of Robinia pseudoacacia on the Loess Plateau." Agricultural and Forest Meteorology 301-302, no. : 108344.

Editorial
Published: 01 February 2021 in Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability
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Bojie Fu; Mark Stafford-Smith; Chao Fu. Editorial overview: Dryland social-ecological systems in changing environments. Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability 2021, 48, A1 -A5.

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Bojie Fu, Mark Stafford-Smith, Chao Fu. Editorial overview: Dryland social-ecological systems in changing environments. Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability. 2021; 48 ():A1-A5.

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Bojie Fu; Mark Stafford-Smith; Chao Fu. 2021. "Editorial overview: Dryland social-ecological systems in changing environments." Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability 48, no. : A1-A5.

Journal article
Published: 29 January 2021 in Science of The Total Environment
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Payment for ecosystem services (PES) has become a widely accepted strategy for combining environmental conservation or restoration with socioeconomic development. Understanding the spatial heterogeneity of the effects of PES programs and their influencing factors is necessary for the design and implementation of effective programs. However, few researchers have both distinguished the effects of PES and analyzed their spatial variation simultaneously. Here, we analyzed the spatial differences in the effectiveness of afforestation under China's Grain-to-Green Program (GTGP), a well-known PES program, in the Loess Plateau. The approach is based on remote sensing data and county-level statistical data, which reflects the basic implementation unit of the GTGP. We identified several local and non-local influencing factors: the aridity index, rural non-farm employment, and rural migration improved afforestation effectiveness, whereas the total afforestation degree (the cumulative area of afforestation divided by the total area), vegetation conditions before afforestation, grain production, and investment in fixed assets decreased its effectiveness. Based on our results, we propose several suggestions for improvement: preferring afforestation in humid counties with low vegetation cover, identifying an optimal degree of afforestation, and promoting the transformation of rural livelihoods. Our study provides a general approach to analyze the effectiveness of PES and its spatial variation, thereby providing insights into future PES programs both within China and around the world.

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Xutong Wu; Shuai Wang; Bojie Fu; Jianguo Liu. Spatial variation and influencing factors of the effectiveness of afforestation in China's Loess Plateau. Science of The Total Environment 2021, 771, 144904 .

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Xutong Wu, Shuai Wang, Bojie Fu, Jianguo Liu. Spatial variation and influencing factors of the effectiveness of afforestation in China's Loess Plateau. Science of The Total Environment. 2021; 771 ():144904.

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Xutong Wu; Shuai Wang; Bojie Fu; Jianguo Liu. 2021. "Spatial variation and influencing factors of the effectiveness of afforestation in China's Loess Plateau." Science of The Total Environment 771, no. : 144904.

Journal article
Published: 25 January 2021 in Journal of Cleaner Production
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How to improve the utilization efficiency of natural resources and control environmental impacts is one of the key steps to achieve the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). A multi-dimensional approach integrating landscape and systematic analysis might be a good way to address this issue. In this study, three main ecosystems and six vegetation cover changes on the Loess Plateau (LP) from 2000 to 2015 were selected to clarify their impacts on resource utilization and conservation in three environmental regions based on landscape-level remote sensing data and an emergy-based thermodynamic system processing model. The evapotranspiration empower was regarded as the system emergy utilization, with the structure and function of the ecosystem being divided into resource utilization efficiency and environmental impacts. Results showed that (1) Forest could reinforce production by improving the water and soil conservation in water erosion region, although it had a lower water utilization efficiency than other ecosystems. (2) Grassland was more suitable than forest in the water-limited wind and wind-water erosion regions, with a higher water utilization efficiency and higher resource conservation. These results suggested that maximum resource acquisition is not always the optimal strategy for the development of ecosystems, especially in a resource-limited environment. The maximum empower principle could be a general principle to drive ecosystem development at a regional scale. Expanding cultivated land in the wind-water erosion region might be a choice for the sustainable increase of grain production in the LP. By incorporating the main characteristics of the major issues concerned in the studied area into the ecosystem processes and landscape integration model, the new multi-dimensional method has a good application potential in guiding land use planning and decision making in ecological fragile areas, like but not limited to the LP.

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Taotao Han; Hongfang Lu; Yihe Lü; Bojie Fu. Assessing the effects of vegetation cover changes on resource utilization and conservation from a systematic analysis aspect. Journal of Cleaner Production 2021, 293, 126102 .

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Taotao Han, Hongfang Lu, Yihe Lü, Bojie Fu. Assessing the effects of vegetation cover changes on resource utilization and conservation from a systematic analysis aspect. Journal of Cleaner Production. 2021; 293 ():126102.

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Taotao Han; Hongfang Lu; Yihe Lü; Bojie Fu. 2021. "Assessing the effects of vegetation cover changes on resource utilization and conservation from a systematic analysis aspect." Journal of Cleaner Production 293, no. : 126102.

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Published: 17 January 2021 in Ambio
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Understanding the postprogram land use plans of participants is necessary for the sustainability of the conservation achievements from payments for ecosystem services (PES) programs. Previous studies have analyzed many individual factors affecting participants’ reconversion plans after PES programs. However, whether the regional ecosystem services changes caused by PES programs affect reconversion willingness remains elusive. Here, we used the multilevel linear model to determine the effects of regional ecosystem services changes and individual characteristics on participants’ land reconversion willingness after the Grain for Green Program (GFGP) in the Yanhe watershed of the Loess Plateau. We found that household income, ecological awareness, and employment changes negatively affected reconversion willingness, while nonfarm employment positively affected it at the individual level. At the regional level, the grain production and water yield changes could influence the reconversion willingness of respondents with different individual characteristics. With improved understanding of the factors affecting reconversion willingness, several suggestions to improve the sustainability of the GFGP were proposed. Our study provides a template for analyzing the multilevel factors that affect the sustainability of other PES programs.

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Xutong Wu; Shuai Wang; Bojie Fu. Multilevel analysis of factors affecting participants’ land reconversion willingness after the Grain for Green Program. Ambio 2021, 50, 1394 -1403.

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Xutong Wu, Shuai Wang, Bojie Fu. Multilevel analysis of factors affecting participants’ land reconversion willingness after the Grain for Green Program. Ambio. 2021; 50 (7):1394-1403.

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Xutong Wu; Shuai Wang; Bojie Fu. 2021. "Multilevel analysis of factors affecting participants’ land reconversion willingness after the Grain for Green Program." Ambio 50, no. 7: 1394-1403.

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Published: 19 December 2020 in Land Degradation & Development
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Water erosion affects soil carbon (C) loss and C enrichment in deposited sediment. To better understand the dynamics of water erosion and topsoil C loss with sediments after vegetation restoration, we studied the sediment yield from each rainfall event over two growing seasons (June through October) in four runoff plots with different vegetation covers (Robinia pseudoacacia, Spiraea salicifolia, Stipa bungeana, and bare soil) in an eroding soil landscape on the Chinese Loess Plateau in 2016 and 2017. The results showed that the C loss in the deposited sediments was reduced by 99.0 ± 0.5% when the soil was vegetated compared to bare soil. Decreased organic C enrichment ratios were shown under the vegetation cover (2.14 ± 0.68 for tree cover, 1.34 ± 0.20 for shrub cover, and 1.63 ± 0.26 for grass cover) compared to bare soil (2.65 ± 0.99). The decreasing organic C enrichment ratios were affected by the fractional vegetation coverage and soil organic C concentration. During organic C enrichment in the bare soil, the additional particulate organic C or mineral‐associated organic C were based on the C enrichment ratio. The results can improve our understanding of C enrichment processes under different vegetation covers and help predict the C enrichment ratio in a vegetation restoration area.

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Jianye Li; Bojie Fu; XiaoMing Feng; Paul Dargusch; Jianbo Liu; Weiliang Chen; Jian Wang. Topsoil carbon‐selective transport in an eroding soil landscape with vegetation restoration. Land Degradation & Development 2020, 32, 2061 -2073.

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Jianye Li, Bojie Fu, XiaoMing Feng, Paul Dargusch, Jianbo Liu, Weiliang Chen, Jian Wang. Topsoil carbon‐selective transport in an eroding soil landscape with vegetation restoration. Land Degradation & Development. 2020; 32 (5):2061-2073.

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Jianye Li; Bojie Fu; XiaoMing Feng; Paul Dargusch; Jianbo Liu; Weiliang Chen; Jian Wang. 2020. "Topsoil carbon‐selective transport in an eroding soil landscape with vegetation restoration." Land Degradation & Development 32, no. 5: 2061-2073.

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Published: 11 November 2020 in Science of The Total Environment
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Revegetation is accelerating globally due to its benefits for ecosystem restoration, desertification prevention, and climate change mitigation. The Loess Plateau has suffered serious erosion in the past decades, and revegetation projects, such as those under the ‘Grain for Green’ program, have been conducted for soil erosion prevention. The irrational distribution of artificial plantations had negative consequences, including vegetation degradation, soil drying, and decreases in streamflow. Determining the suitable plant species is critical in guiding the design of revegetation programs and may help delimit the suitable boundaries for artificial plantations. In this study, we used an eco-hydrological model to quantify the suitability of two typical revegetation species (Robinia pseudoacacia and Stipa bungeana) using a developed vegetation suitability equation, which estimates the water use/water stress trade-off. The results showed that R. pseudoacacia was more sensitive to water stress than S. bungeana. The water use of both species varied along the precipitation gradient, and S. bungeana generally had a higher water use than R. pseudoacacia. Suitable areas for R. pseudoacacia were mainly located in the northeastern part of the plateau. By overlaying the suitable boundaries for R. pseudoacacia on the current land cover, we found that the area of forests distributed in unsuitable regions reached 7.31% of the entire Loess Plateau. Converting forests beyond the suitable boundary to grasslands would increase the water yield (0.51%–12.23%) and slightly decrease the soil retention capacity (0.01%–0.08%), resulting in a ‘win-win’ situation for sustainable plant-soil ecosystems and soil-water conservations. Additionally, the suitable area of R. pseudoacacia is predicted to shrink under projected future drying trends. In conclusion, vegetation suitability in the future planning and design of revegetation projects should be considered to effectively tackle the impacts of environmental degradation and climate change in the Loess Plateau.

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Cong Wang; Shuai Wang; Bojie Fu; Yihe Lü; Yuanxin Liu; Xing Wu. Integrating vegetation suitability in sustainable revegetation for the Loess Plateau, China. Science of The Total Environment 2020, 759, 143572 .

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Cong Wang, Shuai Wang, Bojie Fu, Yihe Lü, Yuanxin Liu, Xing Wu. Integrating vegetation suitability in sustainable revegetation for the Loess Plateau, China. Science of The Total Environment. 2020; 759 ():143572.

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Cong Wang; Shuai Wang; Bojie Fu; Yihe Lü; Yuanxin Liu; Xing Wu. 2020. "Integrating vegetation suitability in sustainable revegetation for the Loess Plateau, China." Science of The Total Environment 759, no. : 143572.

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Published: 26 October 2020 in Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability
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The fit of social-ecological systems (SESs) is regarded as an important criterion for achieving sustainability. However, there is still a shortage of approaches to achieve this matching, especially for dryland areas, where ecosystems are more vulnerable and sensitive than other areas, and mismatches between institutions and ecological processes can cause worse consequences in a shorter time. By drawing on the cases of SES management in dryland areas, we propose three distinct but complementary approaches to promote SES fit based on comprehensive and systematic analyses, which can be summarized as structural, dynamic, and scale approaches. These approaches could contribute to enhance the fit of SES, but more quantitative indicators and tools are needed to analyze complex SES structure–function relationships.

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Shuai Wang; Shuang Song; Junze Zhang; Xutong Wu; Bojie Fu. Achieving a fit between social and ecological systems in drylands for sustainability. Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability 2020, 48, 53 -58.

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Shuai Wang, Shuang Song, Junze Zhang, Xutong Wu, Bojie Fu. Achieving a fit between social and ecological systems in drylands for sustainability. Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability. 2020; 48 ():53-58.

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Shuai Wang; Shuang Song; Junze Zhang; Xutong Wu; Bojie Fu. 2020. "Achieving a fit between social and ecological systems in drylands for sustainability." Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability 48, no. : 53-58.

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Published: 12 October 2020 in Nature Ecology & Evolution
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Junze Zhang; Bojie Fu; Mark Stafford-Smith; Shuai Wang; Wenwu Zhao. Improve forest restoration initiatives to meet Sustainable Development Goal 15. Nature Ecology & Evolution 2020, 5, 10 -13.

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Junze Zhang, Bojie Fu, Mark Stafford-Smith, Shuai Wang, Wenwu Zhao. Improve forest restoration initiatives to meet Sustainable Development Goal 15. Nature Ecology & Evolution. 2020; 5 (1):10-13.

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Junze Zhang; Bojie Fu; Mark Stafford-Smith; Shuai Wang; Wenwu Zhao. 2020. "Improve forest restoration initiatives to meet Sustainable Development Goal 15." Nature Ecology & Evolution 5, no. 1: 10-13.