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{"title":"High-elevation Qilian Mountains and its inspiration for tectonics and biodiversity during the late Middle Miocene","authors":"Yongheng Yang ,&nbsp;Yunfa Miao ,&nbsp;Xuelian Wang ,&nbsp;Tao Zhang ,&nbsp;Liwu Li","doi":"10.1016/j.gloplacha.2024.104632","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.gloplacha.2024.104632","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The accurate paleoelevation reconstruction of the Qilian Mountains is critical to advancing our understanding the integrity of the Tibetan Plateau (TP) uplift model, its deep structural mechanisms, and corresponding connections with climatic, environmental, and biodiversity changes. Recently, the first quantitative reconstruction of the paleomidrange (i.e., average elevation of the basin and mountains) of the northern Tibetan Plateau (NTP) was completed, using innovative palynological paleoaltimetry-TP/TPAP [(<em>Tsuga</em>% + <em>Podocarpus</em>%) / (<em>Tsuga</em>% + <em>Podocarpus</em>% + <em>Abies</em>% + <em>Picea</em>%)] ratios, which revealed a rapid uplift of the NTP from low to high elevations during the late Middle Miocene. Here, we analyzed the Ebotu Fauna pollen record (13–12 Ma) from the Hongyazi Basin, situated within the Qilian Mountains, to directly infer the paleoelevation of this region. The pollen assemblages were predominantly composed of conifers (average of 64.0 %), including <em>Picea</em>, <em>Cedrus</em>, and <em>Pinus</em> of the Pinaceae, as well as Cupressaceae, with broadleaves and steppes taxa each accounting for &lt;15 %. This pollen composition evidently reflects a vegetation type dominated by high-mountain conifers forest, consistent with Middle Miocene pollen assemblages from the Qaidam Basin. Application TP/TPAP ratios yielded a paleomidrange of 3492 ± 87 m at 13–12 Ma. Combined with the known elevation of the Qaidam Basin during this period (1885 ± 566 m), the elevation of the Qilian Mountains was calculated to be 4338 ± 653 m. In turn, an elevation of 2646 ± 740 m was obtained for the Hongyazi Basin. This high-elevation terrain provides evidence to support the multi-stage convective removal model of the TP caused by crustal shortening and thickening. It also led to the formation of a humid ecosystem dominated by conifers forest in the Qilian Mountains, supporting the diversification of mammalian taxa.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":55089,"journal":{"name":"Global and Planetary Change","volume":"243 ","pages":"Article 104632"},"PeriodicalIF":4.0,"publicationDate":"2024-11-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142661948","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Widespread upper-ocean deoxygenation in the Alpine-Mediterranean Tethys during the Toarcian Oceanic Anoxic Event","authors":"Wenhan Chen ,&nbsp;David B. Kemp ,&nbsp;Hugh C. Jenkyns ,&nbsp;Stuart A. Robinson ,&nbsp;Shouyi Jiang ,&nbsp;Chengrong Pan ,&nbsp;Chao Li","doi":"10.1016/j.gloplacha.2024.104631","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.gloplacha.2024.104631","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The early Toarcian (∼183 Ma) was characterized by pronounced climate warming associated with massive release of ¹³C-depleted carbon to the exogenic system, as evidenced by globally recognized negative carbon-isotope excursions (N-CIE) in biospheric carbon reservoirs. Global warming during this interval triggered a variety of environmental perturbations, of which large-scale marine deoxygenation (as indicated by the presence of widespread organic carbon-rich deposits) is arguably diagnostic and led to the naming of the interval in question as the Toarcian Oceanic Anoxic Event (T-OAE). Nevertheless, the spatial variability of water-column redox during the T-OAE is unclear because most sedimentological and geochemical methods used to infer marine redox are likely reflective of bottom-water and/or pore-water conditions. Here we report new I/(Ca + Mg) and Cerium (Ce)-anomaly data from two carbonate successions from northern Italy that encompass the T-OAE interval. Both successions were deposited in the Alpine-Mediterranean Tethys; one in a shallow-water platform setting and the other within a pelagic environment. Both successions record an abrupt drop in I/(Ca + Mg) values, coupled with positive excursions in Ce-anomaly records at the onset of the T-OAE N-CIE. The synchronized changes in marine iodate depletion and Ce enrichment suggest widespread and significant upper-ocean deoxygenation in the Alpine-Mediterranean Tethys. This redox pattern is attributed to an expanded oxygen minimum zone (OMZ) formed as a result of sluggish oceanic circulation under climate warming, augmented by enhanced dissolved oxygen consumption due to increased nutrient availability and the consequent eutrophication in both proximal and distal settings. Because reduced seawater dissolved oxygen [O₂] would increase the ecological stress and constrict any potentially hospitable habitats, the broad synchroneity between biotic turnovers and upper-ocean deoxygenation in the Alpine-Mediterranean Tethys is compatible with a potential causal link.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":55089,"journal":{"name":"Global and Planetary Change","volume":"243 ","pages":"Article 104631"},"PeriodicalIF":4.0,"publicationDate":"2024-11-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142661946","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Nutrient changes from Zhoushan coastal upwelling fluctuations since 1900 and its implications for fisheries","authors":"Meiqun Xiao ,&nbsp;Bing Deng ,&nbsp;Guosen Zhang ,&nbsp;Hui Wu ,&nbsp;Yuanyuan Chen ,&nbsp;Lijun Hou","doi":"10.1016/j.gloplacha.2024.104630","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.gloplacha.2024.104630","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This study aims to elucidate the environmental changes signified by biogenic components, assess fluctuations in upwelling over the past century, and evaluate the potential risks associated with variations in coastal upwelling intensity on the degradation of fisheries within the Zhoushan Fishing Ground. High-resolution sediment records were established to reveal long-term variations in Zhoushan coastal upwelling. Results showed a significant reduction in nutrient components between 1900s and 1950s, suggesting a decline in upwelling strength. Since the 1960s, lightened δ¹⁵N and the incline of nutrients suggests an increase in anthropogenic nutrients influx, and increased OP and CUI_SST (SST-based coastal upwelling index) indicates strengthening of upwelling during the 1950s to 1980s. A positive correlation between organic phosphorus (OP) and δ¹³C has been observed since the 1960s, implying that P is a limiting nutrient due to increasing anthropogenic N influx, and the change in CUI_SST coincides well with our OP records. OP is a potential indicator of upwelling strength because upwelling contributes to over 90 % of the P on the East China Sea shelf. A prominent decline in the nutrient composition occurred from the 1980s to 2010s, despite substantially increased anthropogenic nutrients influx and eutrophication in adjoining Changjiang delta regions in the past decades. Weakening upwelling and the consequent decreasing nutrients influx has presumably hindered recovery and thus contributed to the degradation of fishery resources in recent decades.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":55089,"journal":{"name":"Global and Planetary Change","volume":"243 ","pages":"Article 104630"},"PeriodicalIF":4.0,"publicationDate":"2024-11-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142661943","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Clustered slumping in the northern South China Sea: Implications for chronology and geohazards","authors":"Yin Lu ,&nbsp;Ed L. Pope ,&nbsp;Qiliang Sun ,&nbsp;Michael Strasser","doi":"10.1016/j.gloplacha.2024.104623","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.gloplacha.2024.104623","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Seismic facies analysis is the most widely used method to identify event deposits from subaqueous environments. However, the internal structures of a chaotic or transparent seismic unit that represent event deposits are usually poorly imaged. This is primarily due to the limited resolution (usually &lt;10 m) of commonly available multi-channel seismic reflection data. As a consequence, potential (sub)meter-thick, interbedded background sediments that may divide the chaotic layer cannot be discerned on such a seismic profile. The result of this, is that a complex of multiple moderate-thickness event layers can be misinterpreted as a single, thick event layer and this can greatly impact age-depth model reconstruction and geohazard assessment. One approach to resolve the problem is to correlate seismic data with high-resolution sediment core analysis. To address the problem in the South China Sea, we combine multiple methods to identify event deposits in the IODP holes U1499A and U1432C. Our dataset reveals that: (1) the previously interpreted ∼50 m-thick slumping unit in the region is a complex of multiple moderately sized units; (2) the slumping events are clustered between 0.6 and 0.4 Ma. Using our new understanding of event emplacement, we define event-free age models for mass wasting on the margin of the South China Sea, improving our understanding of local geohazards. Our methods here represent a sedimentological approach which could be used in other subaqueous environments to reconstruct event-free age models and geohazard histories.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":55089,"journal":{"name":"Global and Planetary Change","volume":"244 ","pages":"Article 104623"},"PeriodicalIF":4.0,"publicationDate":"2024-11-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142700919","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Unraveling lead sources in a tropical urban Swamp Forest: Insights and challenges","authors":"Canh Tien Trinh Nguyen ,&nbsp;Mengli Chen ,&nbsp;Chris Gouramanis ,&nbsp;Gonzalo Carrasco ,&nbsp;Robert J. Wasson ,&nbsp;Alan D. Ziegler","doi":"10.1016/j.gloplacha.2024.104629","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.gloplacha.2024.104629","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>We investigate the contributions of natural (geogenic) and anthropogenic sources of lead (Pb) to the Nee Soon Swamp Forest, a relatively undisturbed catchment in Singapore. Using a Bayesian statistical source tracking approach with Pb isotopes preserved in sediment sections, our findings reveal a predominance of geogenic Pb in contemporary sediments, despite the significant presence of anthropogenic Pb in aerosols from local and distant sources. However, the geogenic Pb isotope signatures of the two main soil types in the catchment overlap with those of anthropogenic sources, introducing considerable uncertainty in using Pb isotopes as tracers within this catchment and potentially across larger areas. This uncertainty raises concerns about past interpretations of Pb contamination in both terrestrial and aquatic environments in Singapore and the broader region. To address these challenges, we emphasize the importance of accurately determining the signatures of all natural sources before using Pb isotopes as tracers in future studies. We also suggest that incorporating additional Pb isotope ratios or other stable isotope ratios (e.g., Ba, Cu, Sr, Zn) could enhance our ability to distinguish between natural and anthropogenic Pb sources. Ultimately, our study highlights the complexity of Pb sources in the environment and underscores the need for more comprehensive approaches to assessing their impacts.</div></div><div><h3>Synopsis</h3><div>This paper highlights insights and challenges in lead (Pb) source tracing studies conducted in urban catchments. These challenges primarily stem from the inadequate identification of all Pb isotope sources. We address these challenges by employing a Bayesian statistical approach to effectively identify, discriminate, and quantify Pb sources within a wetland ecosystem in Singapore.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":55089,"journal":{"name":"Global and Planetary Change","volume":"243 ","pages":"Article 104629"},"PeriodicalIF":4.0,"publicationDate":"2024-11-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142662455","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Quantitative contributions of different atmospheric circulation systems to Holocene aeolian activity in northwestern China: Evidence from a closed interdune lake in the Tengger Desert hinterland","authors":"Bing Liu ,&nbsp;Yongtao Zhao ,&nbsp;Aimin Liang ,&nbsp;Aijun Sun ,&nbsp;Zhengcai Zhang ,&nbsp;Jianhui Ge ,&nbsp;Hui Zhao ,&nbsp;Fahu Chen","doi":"10.1016/j.gloplacha.2024.104621","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.gloplacha.2024.104621","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The aeolian deserts of northwestern China are major landscape types in the arid regions of the Northern Hemisphere, and collectively they are one of the largest dust source regions on Earth. However, owing to occurrence of sedimentary hiatuses within aeolian deposits in the deserts, we lack clear knowledge of the history of Holocene aeolian activity and the interaction between aeolian processes and their potential drivers. In this study, we extracted an environmentally sensitive grain-size component from the sediments of a closed interdune lake in the hinterland of the Tengger Desert. Our methodology included the application of End Member Analysis (EMA) of different modern sediment types from catchment to regional scales. We reconstructed aeolian activity over the past 13 cal ka BP and quantified the contributions of environmental factors. The results indicated that the EM 2 fraction of the interdune lake sediments is mainly transported by local winds and reflects changes in the intensity of aeolian activity. Based on EM 2 the strongest aeolian activity occurred during 13.0–7.0 cal ka BP, especially during 8.0–7.0 cal ka BP, and the weakest activity occurred during 7.0–3.5 cal ka BP. Aeolian activity increased after 3.5 cal ka BP, but with a gradually weakening trend. The occurrence of the weakest aeolian activity in the Tengger Desert during the Middle Holocene differs from that on the Asian Summer Monsoonal Boundary and in the area influenced by the Westerlies-dominated climate regime. Thus, there was a clearly defined spatio-temporal differentiation of Holocene aeolian activity across the deserts and dune fields of northern China. Quantitative analysis of the contributions of the potential drivers indicated that wind activity forced by different atmospheric circulation systems, rather than changes in vegetation cover, were the most important driver of regional aeolian activity, although their relative effects varied during the Holocene.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":55089,"journal":{"name":"Global and Planetary Change","volume":"243 ","pages":"Article 104621"},"PeriodicalIF":4.0,"publicationDate":"2024-11-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142662454","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Can wood harvest followed by forest regrowth enhance carbon sequestration of the forest sector in China?","authors":"Mengyu Wang ,&nbsp;Chao Yue ,&nbsp;Junhao He ,&nbsp;Pengyi Zhang ,&nbsp;Mengyang Xu ,&nbsp;Yu Li ,&nbsp;Jiaming Wang ,&nbsp;Lele Wang ,&nbsp;Can Xu","doi":"10.1016/j.gloplacha.2024.104626","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.gloplacha.2024.104626","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Forest management policies play a crucial role in enhancing the carbon sequestration capacities of forests. China's current harvest-prohibitive policies may result in the development of old-growth forests and the eventual saturation of their carbon stocks. This study combines empirically derived forest biomass growth models, spatially explicit information on forest age and live biomass carbon stock, and life cycle analysis to explore whether wood harvesting followed by forest regrowth can enhance carbon sequestration in the forest sector for 2021–2060 in China, by accounting for carbon stock changes in both live biomass and harvested wood products (HWP). The results showed that the net effect of wood harvesting on carbon sequestration, compared to that without any harvesting, is crucially dependent on the half-life of HWP and, secondarily, on harvest intensity. The ‘no-harvest’ scenario will enable 9.58 Pg more carbon to be stored in the forest live biomass by 2060 compared to that in 2020. Wood harvesting under the current average half-life of HWP in China (12.5 years) will enhance the forest sector's capability to sequester carbon with a light harvest intensity and diminish it with an intensive harvest intensity. However, the carbon sequestration capacity of the forest sector would increase, irrespective of the harvest intensity, if the HWP half-life could be doubled (25 years) or even quadrupled (50 years). Our findings highlighted the potential positive role of wood harvesting in increasing the carbon sequestration capacity of the forest sector in China and provide useful perspectives for drafting national forest management policies.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":55089,"journal":{"name":"Global and Planetary Change","volume":"243 ","pages":"Article 104626"},"PeriodicalIF":4.0,"publicationDate":"2024-11-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142661944","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Multi-proxy reconstructions of paleotemperature in the southern South China Sea since the last deglaciation","authors":"Liping Tian ,&nbsp;Yingxue Yang ,&nbsp;Li Li,&nbsp;Yanming Ruan,&nbsp;Juan He,&nbsp;Guodong Jia","doi":"10.1016/j.gloplacha.2024.104620","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.gloplacha.2024.104620","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The accuracy of paleothermometers is a prerequisite for understanding the past sea surface temperature (SST) changes in the tropical seas. Here, we analyzed the SST estimates reconstructed by four lipid proxies with common linear and newly advanced models in parallel in a sediment core collected from the southern South China Sea (SCS). After excluding the impact of terrestrial input, all of the four proxies-inferred SSTs displayed a gradually warming pattern since 18.3 ka. Our long-chain alkenones-derived annual SST at seawater depth of 0–30 m (SST _{0–30 m}) record closely matched the regional synthetic SST record from the entire southern SCS, corresponding to high-latitude climate events during the deglaciation. The temperatures reconstructed by long-chain diols (LCDs) showed an upper limit of 27 °C, and we thus proposed that they reflected the optimal survival temperature for organisms producing LCDs when SST was higher than 27 °C. Isoprenoid and hydroxy glycerol dialkyl glycerol tetraethers (iGDGTs and OH-GDGTs)-derived temperatures likely reflected the subsurface temperature (subT) at seawater depth of 30–125 m and SST towards the warm season in the tropical sea, respectively.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":55089,"journal":{"name":"Global and Planetary Change","volume":"243 ","pages":"Article 104620"},"PeriodicalIF":4.0,"publicationDate":"2024-11-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142661945","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"An improved instantaneous gross primary productivity model considering the difference in contributions of sunlit and shaded leaves to canopy sun-induced chlorophyll fluorescence","authors":"Xiaoping Wang ,&nbsp;Zhi Li ,&nbsp;Fei Zhang","doi":"10.1016/j.gloplacha.2024.104627","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.gloplacha.2024.104627","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Sun-induced chlorophyll fluorescence (SIF) from plants offers an effective proxy for estimating gross primary productivity (GPP) by modeling SIF-GPP relationships, a widely used method to evaluate the global carbon sink. However, most SIF-GPP models ignore SIF differences between shaded and sunlit leaves, resulting in GPP underestimation, particularly in dense vegetation. This study aims to partition the contributions of sunlit and shaded leaves to canopy SIF and GPP to refine the SIF-GPP estimation model. Data from 40 eddy covariance (EC) sites representing eight major biomes and TROPOMI SIF satellite data were used for site-specific and global-scale analyses. Our results showed that the contributions of sunlit and shaded leaves to canopy SIF were 80 % and 20 %, and to canopy GPP were 55 % and 45 %, respectively. For site-specific or satellite data, the SIF-GPP relationships were the strongest for sunlit leaves (R² &gt; 0.51, RMSE = 4.03 μmol m⁻² s⁻¹, <em>p</em> &lt; 0.001). The new SIF-GPP model, including sunlit-shaded SIF separation, can improve the accuracy of GPP estimation (R² = 0.53, RMSE = 4.38 μmol m⁻² s⁻¹, <em>p</em> &lt; 0.001). Compared with the model established with observed data, R² was increased by 0.1, and RMSE decreased by 13.26 μmol m⁻² s⁻¹, indicating that the ‘two-leaf’ model could notably improve the SIF-GPP model. This study confirms the different contributions of sunlit and shaded leaves to canopy SIF and GPP, and ignoring this disparity would induce systematic bias in GPP estimation. Our methods and findings on sunlit-shaded SIF separation can be referenced by other studies to enhance GPP estimation accuracy.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":55089,"journal":{"name":"Global and Planetary Change","volume":"243 ","pages":"Article 104627"},"PeriodicalIF":4.0,"publicationDate":"2024-11-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142662453","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Ecosystem water limitation shifts driven by soil moisture in the Loess Plateau, China","authors":"Xiaoru Liang ,&nbsp;Jianwu Yan ,&nbsp;Wei Liang ,&nbsp;Boyan Li ,&nbsp;Xiaohong Liu ,&nbsp;Fulai Feng ,&nbsp;Jia Wei","doi":"10.1016/j.gloplacha.2024.104625","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.gloplacha.2024.104625","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>In the context of climate change, the functionality of ecosystems is primarily influenced by the availability of water and energy supply. However, there is limited research that comprehensively uses energy indicators to explore how climate change affects the water and energy limiting states of ecosystems. Here we evaluated the historical and future water and energy limitations using the Ecosystem Limitation Index (ELI) derived from evapotranspiration (ET), soil moisture (SM), net radiation (Rn), and air temperature (Ta), and conducted an in-depth analysis of the dominant factors. The results indicate that: (1) The degree of water limitation deepened initially and then weakened. Over 68 % of the region became drier initially, while over 83 % became wetter later. (2) In terms of area, soil moisture emerged as a critical factor influencing the variations in water and energy constraints within the Loess Plateau. Further research revealed the range of critical soil moisture (CSM) for the transition of water-energy limitation state is 0.286 mm³mm⁻³, and it varies with changes in temperature, soil texture, vegetation cover, and season. (3) Future projections suggest a transition towards heightened water limitations across the Loess Plateau. These findings underscore the efficacy of ELI in assessing and predicting dynamic ecosystem changes, offering valuable insights into the impacts of climate change on water and energy cycles within semi-arid ecosystems.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":55089,"journal":{"name":"Global and Planetary Change","volume":"243 ","pages":"Article 104625"},"PeriodicalIF":4.0,"publicationDate":"2024-11-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142662452","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}