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JOURNAL OF EARTH SCIENCE & CLIMATIC CHANGE, 2019 VOLUME 10 | DOI: 10.4172/2157-7617-C1-057
Climate change land
cover use and vegetation
evolution in the upper
Huai river basin
Abel Girma
Donghua University, China
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and use/land cover and
vegetation in upper Huai
river basin are considered to
be highly susceptible to climate
change. However, there is less
indication of the change trends
in both climate and land cover/
land use in the study basin.
Thus less understanding of
the watershed sensitivity and
adaptability to climate change.
Here we identified the spatial
and temporal patterns of
changes in climate (from 1960
to 2016), land cover/land use
and vegetation (from 2000 to
2014) in the upper Huai river
basin using land using the
Mann-Kendall test estimator,
land use transfer matrix and
NDVI for four-year time interval.
During the past 56years, there
was a slightly decreasing
trend in precipitation while
air temperature has increased
by 1.2°C. During the past
15years, land cover has changed
significantly. Herein residence
construction land, artificial water
and, artificial vegetation with a
discrete distribution, increased
and wetland and artificial water
bodies showed a diminishing
trend in the study period. On the
other hand, natural vegetation
coverage does not show obvious
changes. Land use/cover change
impact was gradually increased
by human intervention on
various land use types. Our
findings have implications for
predicting the safety of water
resources and water eco-
environment in the Huai river
basin under global change.
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