Duan Hanchen

• PHD
• Professor (Associate) at Chinese Academy of Sciences

Desertification seriously threatens the ecosystem security of the Qinghai‐Tibetan Plateau and the sustainable development of human society. The regional warming and humidification of the climate caused by global warming have brought uncertainty to the desertification development trend of the Qinghai‐Tibetan Plateau. Therefore, it is crucial to pay...

The Qinghai–Tibet Plateau (QTP) is crucial for global climate regulation and ecological equilibrium. However, the phenomenon of global climate warming has increased the frequency of extreme weather events on the QTP, exerting substantial effects on both regional and global ecological systems. This study utilized long-term series NDVI and extreme cl...

For regional desertification control and sustainable development, it is critical to quickly and accurately understand the distribution pattern and spatial and temporal changes of deserts. In this work, five different machine learning algorithms are used to classify different desert types on the Qinghai–Tibetan Plateau (QTP), and their classificatio...

The Horqin Sandy Land，as a vital component of the“Three-North”Shelter Forest Project，necessitates specific and urgent research on desertification within the region. This study innovatively introduces the Analytic Hierarchy Process（AHP）to select and optimize indicators and factor variables from the original MEDALUS model，thereby enhancing the model...

Soil salinization has a critical impact on land in arid and semi-arid regions. Consequently, mapping and monitoring saline soils have been the subject of growing attention for many scientists due to the irregular spectral reflectivity related to geographic locations and landscape characteristics, which are challenging for policy-makers to improve a...

Achieving zero land degradation neutrality in Aeolian Desertified Land (ADL) is a challenging task that requires continuous scientific understanding and technical efforts to effectively manage natural resources for economic development while meeting environmental needs. This study used Landsat collection and annual average climate data from the gro...

The purpose of this study is to reveal the seasonal difference in vegetation variation and its seasonal response to climate factors in the Qilian Mountains (QM) under the background of global warming. Based on the MOD13 A2 normalized difference vegetation index (NDVI) data and meteorological data, this study analyzed the spatiotemporal dynamics and...

Hyperspectral data has attracted considerable attention in recent years due to its high accuracy in monitoring soil salinization. At present, most existing research focuses on the saline soil in a single area without comparative analysis between regions. The regional differences in the hyperspectral characteristics of saline soil are still unclear....

The interaction between vegetation and soil is important for vegetation restoration and reconstruction during the succession of abandoned farmland. We chose four kinds of abandoned farmlands with the time of 1, 6, 12, and 22 years to experiment in the Loess Plateau. The community composition, community biomass, and soil nutrients of the four kinds...

Climate change and anthropogenic disturbance are two main drivers for vegetation dynamics on the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau (QTP). Alpine meadow and alpine steppe are the primary rangeland ecosystem types on the QTP. However, the vegetation trends of the two land cover types and the underlying mechanisms behind their variation remain under debate. In...

Alpine meadow and alpine steppe are the two most widely distributed nonzonal vegetation types in the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau. In the context of global climate change, the differences in spatial-temporal variation trends and their responses to climate change are discussed. It is of great significance to reveal the response of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau...

Currently, grazing exclosure is one of the most important grassland management measures for restoring all types of degraded alpine grassland in the Qinghai–Tibetan Plateau (QTP). The most widely distributed grassland ecosystems across the northeastern QTP are the alpine meadow (AM), alpine meadow steppe (AMS), and alpine steppe (AS). However, wheth...

Understanding past human-environment interactions over a long time-scale offers an analogue to predict, adapt and mitigate the environmental issues caused by global change and human activities in the future. The transient existence of historical cities from arid northern China can provide a valuable reference for this issue. In this study, we inves...

This study used a field sampling survey and laboratory analysis to investigate the different characteristics of community structure, above/belowground biomass, plant composition and diversity, root proportions in different soil layers, and soil physiochemical properties between alpine steppes and alpine meadows in the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau. Five...

Grassland in the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau (QTP) provides tremendous carbon (C) sinks and is the important ground for grazing. Grassland degradation, the loss of plant coverage and the emergence of sand activities, results in substantial reduction in soil organic carbon (SOC). To demonstrate the pattern of SOC loss and to elucidate underlying mechanism...

Aeolian desertification has become one of the most serious environmental and socioeconomic problems facing the world today. Quantitative remote sensing technology is an important means to achieve the development trends of aeolian desertified land (ADL). To compensate for the shortcomings in the time scale of Landsat Thematic Mapper and other high-s...

Climatic warming is presumed to cause topsoil drought by increasing evapotranspiration and water infiltration, and by progressively inducing land degradation in alpine meadows of the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau. However, how soil moisture and temperature patterns of degraded alpine meadows respond to climate warming remains unclear. A six-year continuo...

ABSTRACT Choosing the Minqin Oasis, located downstream of the Shiyang River in Northwest China, as the study area, we used field-measured hyperspectral data and laboratory-measured soil salt content data to analyze the characteristics of saline soil spectral reflectance and its transformation in the area, and elucidated the relations between the so...

Aeolian desertification is one of the most serious environmental and socioeconomic problems in arid, semi-arid, and dry subhumid zones. Understanding desertification processes and causes is important to provide reasonable and effective control measures for preventing desertification. With satellite remote sensing images as data source to assess the...

The Three-North Shelter Forest Programme (TNSFP) covers 551 Chinese counties and an area of 4,069,000km2 mostly in arid and semi-arid regions. In this paper, we discuss the temporal and spatial changes in value of the normalized-difference vegetation index (NDVI) in this region, and the relationships between NDVI and climatic factors (temperature a...

Based on the SPOT VEGETATION NDVI data, the spatial-temporal variations of vegetation cover in Hexi region of Gansu province were analyzed by using the MVC (Maximum Value Composites) method and the linear regression analysis during 1999 to 2009, the NDVI change trends and characteristics of different land use types were extracted. According to the...

Research on land use and cover change (LUCC) is an important aspect of the study of global change or global warming. The Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau is a good place to study global change because of its unique natural conditions, so we chose the source region of China’s Yellow River for a case study of the driving forces behind LUCC. We used Landsat im...

Global climate change will affect the ecology and environment of the Qinghai–Tibet Plateau, thus increasing attention is being paid to the aeolian desertification that is occurring in the watershed that supplies the Longyangxia Reservoir in the upper reaches of China's Yellow River. We must assess the aeolian desertification trends before developin...

The present study combined remote sensing with geographical information system (GIS) technology to interpret Landsat TM images from 1996 to 2000 and establish a land cover database for the Hexi Corridor of China’s Gansu Province. The areas of sand and dust emission and trends in their change were extracted by analyzing the database, with the follow...