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Based on the normalized difference vegetation index and climate data, this study investigated the spatiotemporal change of fractional vegetation cover (FVC) and its relationship with climate change in freshwater marshes of Northeast China from 2000 to 2016. Although freshwater marshes in Northeast China have undergone loss during the past nearly 20 years, the FVC of unchanged marshes has increased by 0.34% per year over the study area, with the largest increases in Songnen Plain. Correlation analysis results showed that warm growing season temperatures could enhance the FVC of marshes in the Greater and Lesser Khingan Mountains, but reduce the FVC in arid and semi-arid grassland regions of Songnen Plain and Eastern Inner Mongolia. By contrast, the increased growing season precipitation could significantly enhance the FVC of marshes in semi-arid grassland regions of Northeast China, but reduce the FVC of marshes in the Lesser Khingan Mountains and Sanjiang Plain. Under the background of future climate change, we can predict lower FVC of marshes in Songnen Plain and Eastern Inner Mongolia, but higher FVC of marshes in the Changbai Mountains in the future. This research is expected to provide valuable implications for the protection and restoration of wetland vegetation in Northeast China.
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The authors wish to express their gratitude to the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 41601048), the National Key Research and Development Program of China (Grant No. 2017YFC0212303, 2016YFC0500400), and the Excellent Young Scientists Foundation of the Northeast Institute of Geography and Agroecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences (Grant No.Y7H7041001) for funding this work.
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Shen, X., Xue, Z., Jiang, M. et al. Spatiotemporal Change of Vegetation Coverage and its Relationship with Climate Change in Freshwater Marshes of Northeast China. Wetlands 39, 429–439 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s13157-018-1072-z
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