How much aboveground net primary production can be used for human activities in the alpine grasslands in the Three Rivers Source Region (TRSR), China?

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	How much aboveground net primary production can be used for human activities in the alpine grasslands in the Three Rivers Source Region (TRSR), China?
	Yang, Y; Wang, GX; Lin, S; Yang, Y; Zhang, TZ; Yu, H; Lu, YQ; Liu, BT; Sun, JY
	2022
Source Publication	ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH LETTERS
Volume	17 Issue:9
Abstract	Sustainable management of grasslands has always been an urgent issue for policy-makers. The three rivers source region (TRSR) contains widely distributed natural grasslands and is sensitive to climate warming. To enable the sustainable development of the human-nature system in the TRSR, we propose a novel indicator based on the allocation of aboveground net primary production (ANPP). The indicator we proposed is the ANPP that can be used for human activities (UANPP). In the study, we simulated the spatial and temporal patterns of the UANPP in the alpine grasslands in the TRSR during 1979-2016 and explored the main driving factors of the UANPP. The results revealed that (a) the annual total UANPP in the TRSR was 13.22 TgC, approximately accounting for 47% of total ANPP. (b) The areas with negative UANPP values accounted for 16% of the entire TRSR, and they were primarily located within the Nature Reserve of the Yangtze and Yellow river source regions, while three-quarters of the area exhibited improvement trends. (c) The regional mean UANPP significantly increased during 1979-2016, at a rate of 0.28 gC m(-2) yr(-1) (p < 0.01). In the entire TRSR, 87% of the area exhibited increasing trends. (d) The UANPP in most areas of the TRSR was strongly correlated with precipitation, and the effect of human activities on the UANNP increased slightly during the 38 year study period. The UANPP represents the upper limit of human use of nature. These findings provide a reference for policy-makers to make decisions toward human-nature system sustainability while meeting human needs for grassland resources. ANPP allocation between nature and human system is a potentially important tool from the standpoint of sustainable development.
Indexed By	SCIE
Document Type	期刊论文
Identifier	http://210.75.249.4/handle/363003/61126
Collection	中国科学院西北高原生物研究所
Recommended Citation GB/T 7714	Yang, Y,Wang, GX,Lin, S,et al. How much aboveground net primary production can be used for human activities in the alpine grasslands in the Three Rivers Source Region (TRSR), China?[J]. ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH LETTERS,2022,17(9).
APA	Yang, Y.,Wang, GX.,Lin, S.,Yang, Y.,Zhang, TZ.,...&Sun, JY.(2022).How much aboveground net primary production can be used for human activities in the alpine grasslands in the Three Rivers Source Region (TRSR), China?.ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH LETTERS,17(9).
MLA	Yang, Y,et al."How much aboveground net primary production can be used for human activities in the alpine grasslands in the Three Rivers Source Region (TRSR), China?".ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH LETTERS 17.9(2022).

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