Impacts of increasing compound hot-dry events on vegetation under the warming-wetting trend in Northwest China

Abstract

In a warming world, climate extremes tend to be more frequent and intense. The exceptional response of ecosystems triggered by extreme climate events under a warmer and wetter climate in northwest China (NWC) has aroused growing concern. However, understanding the responses of vegetation to climate extremes from the compound events perspective remains challenging. In this study, we identify the climate dynamics in NWC during 1971–2020 based on daily meteorological observations, focusing on the changes in compound hot-dry events (CHDEs) during the warmer and wetter period. We further explore the effects of CHDEs on vegetation by examining vegetation anomalies and recovery time using daily gross primary productivity (GPP) data. The results show a clear warmer and wetter period in NWC during 2000–2020. No signs of a hiatus in CHDEs increase are observed during this period, and even the duration of CHDEs in western NWC keeps showing an increasing tendency. Vegetation in eastern NWC, with a lower probability of GPP anomalies, exhibits stronger resistance of ecosystems to CHDEs than in western NWC. In NWC, vegetation typically returns to its normal state in 5.50 days on average, but exhibits greater resilience in the western region, where it takes less recovery time (4.82 days). Vegetation in the central region shows the lowest probability of GPP anomalies and relatively longer recovery time, likely due to its higher altitudes. Our research underscores the imperative to address the considerable impacts of CHDEs on vegetation growth even as the regional climate becomes increasingly warmer and wetter.

Keywords

Warming-wetting trend / Compound hot-dry events / Vegetation anomaly / Recovery time

CRediT authorship contribution statement

Zejin Liu: Writing – review & editing, Writing – original draft, Formal analysis, Conceptualization. Limin Jiao: Writing – review & editing, Conceptualization. Xihong Lian: Writing – review & editing.

Declaration of competing interests

The authors declare that they have no known competing financial interests or personal relationships that could have appeared to influence the work reported in this paper.

Acknowledgements

This research was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 42371423), the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities (Grant No. 2042023kfyq04), the China Postdoctoral Science Foundation (Grant No. 2023M742682), and the Postdoctoral Fellowship Program of CPSF (Grant No. GZB20230539).

Supplementary materials

Supplementary material associated with this article can be found, in the online version, at doi:10.1016/j.geosus.2024.08.003.

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