期刊
GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY
卷 28, 期 21, 页码 6385-6403出版社
WILEY
DOI: 10.1111/gcb.16404
关键词
forest-water nexus; natural climate solutions; nature-based solutions; precipitation; socio-ecological systems; water balance; water risk; water stress
资金
- Ministry of Education Singapore [A-0009297-01-00, A-8000190-00-00, R-109-000-272-133]
- National Research Foundation Singapore [NRF-RSS2019-007]
Large-scale reforestation under future climates has both positive and negative impacts on the water cycle. In most water-insecure regions in the Asia-Pacific, reforestation increases evapotranspiration and precipitation, resulting in higher water yield and reduced probability of extreme dry months. However, some regions may experience declines in net water yield due to increased evapotranspiration or decreases in soil moisture and advected precipitation.
Large-scale reforestation can potentially bring both benefits and risks to the water cycle, which needs to be better quantified under future climates to inform reforestation decisions. We identified 477 water-insecure basins worldwide accounting for 44.6% (380.2 Mha) of the global reforestation potential. As many of these basins are in the Asia-Pacific, we used regional coupled land-climate modeling for the period 2041-2070 to reveal that reforestation increases evapotranspiration and precipitation for most water-insecure regions over the Asia-Pacific. This resulted in a statistically significant increase in water yield (p < .05) for the Loess Plateau-North China Plain, Yangtze Plain, Southeast China, and Irrawaddy regions. Precipitation feedback was influenced by the degree of initial moisture limitation affecting soil moisture response and thus evapotranspiration, as well as precipitation advection from other reforested regions and moisture transport away from the local region. Reforestation also reduces the probability of extremely dry months in most of the water-insecure regions. However, some regions experience nonsignificant declines in net water yield due to heightened evapotranspiration outstripping increases in precipitation, or declines in soil moisture and advected precipitation.
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