IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/gam/jijerp/v16y2019i14p2460-d247384.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

Land Cover Change Intensifies Actual and Potential Radiative Forcing through CO 2 in South and Southeast Asia from 1992 to 2015

Author

Listed:
  • Yaoping Cui

    (Laboratory of Geospatial Technology for the Middle and Lower Yellow River Regions, Henan University, Kaifeng 475001, China)

  • Michael E Meadows

    (Department of Environmental and Geographical Science, University of Cape Town, Rondebosch 7701, South Africa)

  • Nan Li

    (Laboratory of Geospatial Technology for the Middle and Lower Yellow River Regions, Henan University, Kaifeng 475001, China)

  • Yiming Fu

    (Laboratory of Geospatial Technology for the Middle and Lower Yellow River Regions, Henan University, Kaifeng 475001, China)

  • Guosong Zhao

    (Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China)

  • Jinwei Dong

    (Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China)

Abstract

Land cover change (LCC) and its impact on CO 2 sequestration and radiative forcing (RF) could dramatically affect climate change, but there has been little effort to address this issue in South and Southeast Asia over a long period of time using actual land cover information. In this study, annual land cover data from 1992 to 2015 were used to assess the CO 2 flux and corresponding RF due to LCC in South and Southeast Asia. The results showed that 553.2 × 10 3 km 2 of the region experienced LCC during this period, mostly due to land reclamation, urban expansion, and deforestation. These LCC caused a marked net decrease in net ecosystem productivity (NEP) as a composite of the various land cover categories during the whole study period, especially since 2001. The CO 2 sequestration was 2160 TgCO 2 during the early 1990s however cumulative sequestration decreased by 414.95 TgCO 2 by 2015. Correspondingly, the cooling effect of NEP, i.e. the total actual RF, was −0.366 W m −2 in South and Southeast Asia between 1992 and 2015. However, the potential RF of the cumulatively reduced NEP due to LCC relative to the 1990s resulted in a warming effect of 2.33 × 10 −3 W m −2 in 2015. Our study provides an applicable framework to accurately assess the potential effect of large-scale LCC on climate.

Suggested Citation

  • Yaoping Cui & Michael E Meadows & Nan Li & Yiming Fu & Guosong Zhao & Jinwei Dong, 2019. "Land Cover Change Intensifies Actual and Potential Radiative Forcing through CO 2 in South and Southeast Asia from 1992 to 2015," IJERPH, MDPI, vol. 16(14), pages 1-13, July.
    • Handle: RePEc:gam:jijerp:v:16:y:2019:i:14:p:2460-:d:247384
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: https://www.mdpi.com/1660-4601/16/14/2460/pdf
    Download Restriction: no
    File URL: https://www.mdpi.com/1660-4601/16/14/2460/
    Download Restriction: no
    ---><---

    References listed on IDEAS

    as
    1. Kristina J. Anderson-Teixeira & Peter K. Snyder & Tracy E. Twine & Santiago V. Cuadra & Marcos H. Costa & Evan H. DeLucia, 2012. "Climate-regulation services of natural and agricultural ecoregions of the Americas," Nature Climate Change, Nature, vol. 2(3), pages 177-181, March.
    Full references (including those not matched with items on IDEAS)

    Most related items

    These are the items that most often cite the same works as this one and are cited by the same works as this one.
    1. Rose A Graves & Ryan D Haugo & Andrés Holz & Max Nielsen-Pincus & Aaron Jones & Bryce Kellogg & Cathy Macdonald & Kenneth Popper & Michael Schindel, 2020. "Potential greenhouse gas reductions from Natural Climate Solutions in Oregon, USA," PLOS ONE, Public Library of Science, vol. 15(4), pages 1-30, April.
    2. Ou Deng & Yiqiu Li & Ruoshuang Li & Guangbin Yang, 2022. "Estimation of Forest Ecosystem Climate Regulation Service Based on Actual Evapotranspiration of New Urban Areas in Guanshanhu District, Guiyang, Guizhou Province, China," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 14(16), pages 1-17, August.
    3. Qian Chi & Shenghui Zhou & Lijun Wang & Mengyao Zhu & Dandan Liu & Weichao Tang & Yaoping Cui & Jay Lee, 2021. "Exploring on the Eco-Climatic Effects of Land Use Changes in the Influence Area of the Yellow River Basin from 2000 to 2015," Land, MDPI, vol. 10(6), pages 1-16, June.
    4. Guoqing Chen & Mingjiu Wang & Zhengjia Liu & Wenfeng Chi, 2017. "The Biogeophysical Effects of Revegetation around Mining Areas: A Case Study of Dongsheng Mining Areas in Inner Mongolia," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 9(4), pages 1-9, April.
    5. Duveiller, Gregory & Caporaso, Luca & Abad-Viñas, Raul & Perugini, Lucia & Grassi, Giacomo & Arneth, Almut & Cescatti, Alessandro, 2020. "Local biophysical effects of land use and land cover change: towards an assessment tool for policy makers," Land Use Policy, Elsevier, vol. 91(C).
    6. Pietro Sciusco & Jiquan Chen & Vincenzo Giannico & Michael Abraha & Cheyenne Lei & Gabriela Shirkey & Jing Yuan & G. Philip Robertson, 2022. "Albedo-Induced Global Warming Impact at Multiple Temporal Scales within an Upper Midwest USA Watershed," Land, MDPI, vol. 11(2), pages 1-19, February.
    7. Shenghui Zhou & Ke Wang & Shiqi Yang & Wenli Li & Yuxuan Zhang & Bin Zhang & Yiming Fu & Xiaoyan Liu & Yadi Run & Oliva Gabriel Chubwa & Guosong Zhao & Jinwei Dong & Yaoping Cui, 2020. "Warming Effort and Energy Budget Difference of Various Human Land Use Intensity: Case Study of Beijing, China," Land, MDPI, vol. 9(9), pages 1-15, August.
    8. Sun, Xuehui & Li, Xueming & Guan, Zhangnan & Liu, Jian & Zhang, Shuping, 2017. "The use of meteorological data to assess the cooling service of forests," Ecosystem Services, Elsevier, vol. 25(C), pages 28-34.
    9. Paul Eguiguren & Tatiana Ojeda Luna & Bolier Torres & Melvin Lippe & Sven Günter, 2020. "Ecosystem Service Multifunctionality: Decline and Recovery Pathways in the Amazon and Chocó Lowland Rainforests," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 12(18), pages 1-26, September.
    10. Flach, Rafaela & Abrahão, Gabriel & Bryant, Benjamin & Scarabello, Marluce & Soterroni, Aline C. & Ramos, Fernando M. & Valin, Hugo & Obersteiner, Michael & Cohn, Avery S., 2021. "Conserving the Cerrado and Amazon biomes of Brazil protects the soy economy from damaging warming," World Development, Elsevier, vol. 146(C).

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:gam:jijerp:v:16:y:2019:i:14:p:2460-:d:247384. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    If CitEc recognized a bibliographic reference but did not link an item in RePEc to it, you can help with this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: MDPI Indexing Manager (email available below). General contact details of provider: https://www.mdpi.com .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.