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The effect of snow damage on self-organization in a primary subtropical evergreen broadleaved forest in Southwest China

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At the beginning of 2015, a primary subtropical evergreen broadleaved forest in Southwest China experienced an extreme snow anomaly. We used a thermodynamic approach to evaluate the self-organization of the forest in response to snow disturbance. We found that the snow disturbance induced severe vegetation damage, as indicated by LAI significantly decreased by 33.19% and 40.85% in 2015 than the pre-disturbance years (2013-2014), respectively. The forest had the higher self-organization in 2015 with the higher ability of capture exergy (Rn/DR) and dissipation exergy (TRNc). The changes in vegetation patterns of the primary subtropical evergreen forest enhanced the ecosystem self-organization. Our finding was inconsistent with the general theory that the disturbance of natural systems reduces exergy capture ability and increases exergy dissipation.

Self-organizationExergy capture and dissipationSnow damageSubtropical ForestSouthwest ChinaSOIL RESPIRATIONSPRUCE FORESTMIXED FORESTCO2 FLUXESDROUGHTSENSITIVITYRESPONSESDYNAMICSRAINFALLSTRESS

Zhang, Jing、Sun, Chenna、Song, Qinghai、Zhang, Yiping、Bibi, Sadia、Lu, Zhiyun、Yu, Hui、Sha, Liqing、Zhou, Wenjun、Gnanamoorthy, Palingamoorthy

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Chinese Acad Sci

2022

Ecological informatics

Ecological informatics

SCI
ISSN:1574-9541
年,卷(期):2022.67
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