Quantitatively monitoring the resilience of patterned vegetation in the Sahel

归一化差异植被指数 弹性(材料科学) 环境科学 自相关 摄动(天文学) 植被(病理学) 公制(单位) 生态系统 自然地理学 生态学 统计 气候变化 地理 数学 生物 物理 经济 病理 热力学 医学 量子力学 运营管理
作者
Joshua Buxton,Jesse F. Abrams,Chris Boulton,N. Barlow,Camila Rangel Smith,Samuel van Stroud,Kirsten Lees,Timothy M. Lenton
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期刊:Global Change Biology [Wiley]
卷期号:28 (2): 571-587 被引量:12
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DOI:10.1111/gcb.15939
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Patterning of vegetation in drylands is a consequence of localized feedback mechanisms. Such feedbacks also determine ecosystem resilience-i.e. the ability to recover from perturbation. Hence, the patterning of vegetation has been hypothesized to be an indicator of resilience, that is, spots are less resilient than labyrinths. Previous studies have made this qualitative link and used models to quantitatively explore it, but few have quantitatively analysed available data to test the hypothesis. Here we provide methods for quantitatively monitoring the resilience of patterned vegetation, applied to 40 sites in the Sahel (a mix of previously identified and new ones). We show that an existing quantification of vegetation patterns in terms of a feature vector metric can effectively distinguish gaps, labyrinths, spots, and a novel category of spot-labyrinths at their maximum extent, whereas NDVI does not. The feature vector pattern metric correlates with mean precipitation. We then explored two approaches to measuring resilience. First we treated the rainy season as a perturbation and examined the subsequent rate of decay of patterns and NDVI as possible measures of resilience. This showed faster decay rates-conventionally interpreted as greater resilience-associated with wetter, more vegetated sites. Second we detrended the seasonal cycle and examined temporal autocorrelation and variance of the residuals as possible measures of resilience. Autocorrelation and variance of our pattern metric increase with declining mean precipitation, consistent with loss of resilience. Thus, drier sites appear less resilient, but we find no significant correlation between the mean or maximum value of the pattern metric (and associated morphological pattern types) and either of our measures of resilience.
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