Detecting One-Hundred-Year Environmental Changes in Western China Using Seven-Year Repeat Photography

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0025008

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	Detecting One-Hundred-Year Environmental Changes in Western China Using Seven-Year Repeat Photography
	Chen, Huai 1,2,3; Yin, Kaipu 3; Wang, Haiyan 3; Zhong, Shenxian 3; Wu, Ning 3; Shi, Fusun 3; Zhu, Dan 2,3; Wang, Weifeng 2; Ma, Zhihai 2; Fang, Xiuqin 2
刊名	PLOS ONE
	2011-09-22
卷号	6 期号:9 页码:e25008(1-13)
ISSN号	1932-6203
DOI	10.1371/journal.pone.0025008
产权排序	2
文献子类	Article
英文摘要	Due to its diverse, wondrous plants and unique topography, Western China has drawn great attention from explorers and naturalists from the Western World. Among them, Ernest Henry Wilson (1876-1930), known as 'Chinese' Wilson, travelled to Western China five times from 1899 to 1918. He took more than 1,000 photos during his travels. These valuable photos illustrated the natural and social environment of Western China a century ago. Since 1997, we had collected E. H. Wilson's old pictures, and then since 2004, along the expedition route of E. H. Wilson, we took 7 years to repeat photographing 250 of these old pictures. Comparing Wilson's photos with ours, we found an obvious warming trend over the 100 years, not only in specific areas but throughout the entire Western China. Such warming trend manifested in phenology changes, community shifts and melting snow in alpine mountains. In this study, we also noted remarkable vegetation changes. Out of 62 picture pairs were related to vegetation change, 39 indicated vegetation has changed to the better condition, 17 for degraded vegetation and six for no obvious change. Also in these photos at a century interval, we found not only rapid urbanization in Western China, but also the disappearance of traditional cultures. Through such comparisons, we should not only be amazed about the significant environmental changes through time in Western China, but also consider its implications for protecting environment while meeting the economic development beyond such changes.
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WOS关键词	CLIMATE-CHANGE ; IMPACTS
WOS研究方向	Science & Technology - Other Topics
语种	英语
出版者	PUBLIC LIBRARY SCIENCE
WOS记录号	WOS:000295265100038
内容类型	期刊论文
源URL	[http://210.75.237.14/handle/351003/29850]
专题	生物多样性与生态系统服务领域_生态研究
通讯作者	Peng, Changhui
作者单位	1.NW Agr & Forest Univ, Coll Forestry, Lab Ecol Forecasting & Global Change, Yanglin, Peoples R China; 2.Univ Quebec, Dept Biol Sci, Inst Environm Sci, Montreal, PQ H3C 3P8, Canada 3.Chinese Acad Sci, Chengdu Inst Biol, Chengdu, Peoples R China;
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Chen, Huai,Yin, Kaipu,Wang, Haiyan,et al. Detecting One-Hundred-Year Environmental Changes in Western China Using Seven-Year Repeat Photography[J]. PLOS ONE,2011,6(9):e25008(1-13).
APA	Chen, Huai.,Yin, Kaipu.,Wang, Haiyan.,Zhong, Shenxian.,Wu, Ning.,...&Peng, Changhui.(2011).Detecting One-Hundred-Year Environmental Changes in Western China Using Seven-Year Repeat Photography.PLOS ONE,6(9),e25008(1-13).
MLA	Chen, Huai,et al."Detecting One-Hundred-Year Environmental Changes in Western China Using Seven-Year Repeat Photography".PLOS ONE 6.9(2011):e25008(1-13).