ESTIMATING VEGETATION SENSITIVITY TO CLIMATE CHANGE AND HUMAN DISTURBANCE : EVIDENCE FROM MODERN VEGETATION PATTERN AND PALAEO VEGETATION DEVELOPMENT
H.Y. LIU, Y.Y. LI
College of Urban and Environmental Sciences, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China
lhy@urban.pku.edu.cn
Keywords: forest-steppe ecotone, mean annual precipitation, vegetation dynamic, Pacific monsoon, Inner Mongolia (China), the Holocene
Abstract
In the forest-steppe ecotone in Inner Mongolia of China, different tree-species are distributed with different MAP range in the forest-steppe ecotone. Both modern vegetation pattern and the Holocene vegetation development
show that Chinese pine was the most drought tolerant tree species and can resist long-term climate drying. Strong human impact on vegetation was constrained to the West Liao River basin over thousands of years of sedentary agriculture.
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