The project addressed existing gaps in the field of global land use and climate change research. It focused on building and enhancing scientific capacity in three developing countries and explored the quantifying methods on assessing spatiotemporal variability of net primary production (NPP), NEP and carbon sinks of global grassland ecosystem in response to climate change and human activity during 1911-2011. This is a new attempt to integrate natural and social sciences in the study of land use change and climate change, and to overcome critical gaps in knowledge on how to enhance and manage the global grassland ecosystem, which includes management of grassland production, biomass, NPP, NEP, and carbon sinks and environmental goals, in the face of climate change in the period 1911-2011.
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Grassland dynamics in responses to climate variation and human activities in China from 2000 to 2013
Assessing the effects of climate variation and human activities on grassland degradation and restoration across the globe
Relative effects of climate variation and human activities on grassland dynamics in Africa from 2000 to 2015
Evaluating the responses of net primary productivity and carbon use efficiency of global grassland to climate variability along an aridity gradient
Project Final Report: ARCP2015-03CMY-Li
Quantitative assessments of water-use efficiency in Temperate Eurasian Steppe along an aridity gradient
Modeling the dynamics of distribution, extent, and NPP of global terrestrial ecosystems in response to future climate change
Grassland Carbon Sequestration Ability in China: A New Perspective from Terrestrial Aridity Zones
Comparative assessment of grassland degradation dynamics in response to climate variation and human activities in China, Mongolia, Pakistan and Uzbekistan from 2000 to 2013
Assessing the Spatiotemporal Dynamic of Global Grassland Water Use Efficiency in Response to Climate Change from 2000 to 2013
Comparative Assessment of Grassland NPP Dynamics in Response to Climate Change in China, North America, Europe and Australia from 1981 to 2010
Projecting the dynamics of terrestrial net primary productivity in response to future climate change under the RCP2.6 scenario
Application of a normalized difference impervious index (NDII) to extract urban impervious surface features based on Landsat TM images
The role of residence time in diagnostic models of global carbon storage capacity: model decomposition based on a traceable scheme
Quantitative assessment of the individual contribution of climate and human factors to desertification in northwest China using net primary productivity as an indicator
Analysis of the spatio-temporal variation in net primary productivity of grassland during the past 10 years in Xinjiang
Grassland coverage inter-annual variation and its coupling relation with hydrothermal factors in China during 1982–2010
1982-2010 nian Zhongguo caodi fugaidu de shikong dongtai ji qi dui qihou bianhua de xiangying [Spatial-temporal dynamics of grassland coverage and its response to climate change in China during 1982-2010]
Dynamic of grassland vegetation degradation and its quantitative assessment in the northwest China
Effects of ecological restoration-induced land-use change and improved management on grassland net primary productivity in the Shiyanghe River Basin, north-west China
Desertification dynamic and the relative roles of climate change and human activities in desertification in the Heihe River Basin based on NPP
Grassland dynamics in response to climate change and human activities in Inner Mongolia, China between 1985 and 2009
Assessing the impact of restoration-induced land conversion and management alternatives on net primary productivity in Inner Mongolian grassland, China
Evaluating the net primary productivity in the grasslands of southern China from 2001 to 2010 using a new land portfolio assessment model
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