Journal
GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY
Volume 22, Issue 11, Pages 3702-3711Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1111/gcb.13311
Keywords
autumn phenology; climate change; end of growing season; Normalize Differenced Vegetation Index; spring phenology
Funding
- Chinese Academy of Sciences [XDB03030404]
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [41530528, 31321061]
- 111 Project [B14001]
- National Youth Top-notch Talent Support Program in China
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The timing of the end of the vegetation growing season (EOS) plays a key role in terrestrial ecosystem carbon and nutrient cycles. Autumn phenology is, however, still poorly understood, and previous studies generally focused on few species or were very limited in scale. In this study, we applied four methods to extract EOS dates from NDVI records between 1982 and 2011 for the Northern Hemisphere, and determined the temporal correlations between EOS and environmental factors (i.e., temperature, precipitation and insolation), as well as the correlation between spring and autumn phenology, using partial correlation analyses. Overall, we observed a trend toward later EOS in similar to 70% of the pixels in Northern Hemisphere, with a mean rate of 0.18 +/- 0.38 days yr(-1). Warming preseason temperature was positively associated with the rate of EOS in most of our study area, except for arid/semi-arid regions, where the precipitation sum played a dominant positive role. Interestingly, increased preseason insolation sum might also lead to a later date of EOS. In addition to the climatic effects on EOS, we found an influence of spring vegetation green-up dates on EOS, albeit biome dependent. Our study, therefore, suggests that both environmental factors and spring phenology should be included in the modeling of EOS to improve the predictions of autumn phenology as well as our understanding of the global carbon and nutrient balances.
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