Modelling the Response of Vegetation in North-East China Transect to Global Change
Xia L. 1995. Modelling the Response of Vegetation in North-East China Transect to Global Change. Journal of Biogeography. 22(2/3):515-522
Biogeographical models relating large-scale patterns of climate and vegetation provide a way of simulating vegetation response to global change. While scaling down these models to regional or landscape scale, climatic factors are not the only components that affect vegetation patterns; other environmental components, such as topography and parent materials, also play important roles in vegetation classification. Elevation and quaternary geology are applied as indices of topography and parent materials, along with climatic index of moisture (MI), to classify vegetation and then predict the response of vegetation in North-East China Transect to global change. The model is based on a vegetation classification decision rule system established by statistical analysis of environment: vegetation relationships. The classification has been validated and gives general vegetation response patterns and sensitivities to global change.
- Type
- Journal Article
- Authors
- Xia, Li
- Units
- SODN
- Keywords
- Biogeography, China, Global Change, Modelling, Vegetation response