Abstract:
Using MODIS NDVI and MODIS NPP remote sensing data, the vegetation comprehensive ecological quality index and its restoration rate in Wenchuan earthquake-stricken area from 2000 to 2019 were retrieved, and the temporal and spatial variation of vegetation restoration in this area was discussed combined with climatic factors. The results show that: (1) From 2000 to 2019, the comprehensive ecological quality of vegetation in the study area showed a diagonal pattern in space (northeast to southwest), while the CVEQI in the northeast improved. The middle to the south section of Longmen Mountain and the low mountain area around the basin were affected by the coupling of earthquake, climate change and other factors, and the comprehensive ecological quality of vegetation showed a deteriorating trend. (2) In the post earthquake recovery stage (2011~2019), the comprehensive ecological quality of vegetation in the study area was significantly improved, and the comprehensive ecological quality of vegetation in Longmen Mountain had been significantly improved. The comprehensive ecological quality of vegetation had been restored from the middle section to the east of the south section of Longmen Mountain, but it did not restore to the best level before the disaster. (3) The earthquake had a great damage to the comprehensive ecological quality of vegetation in plain, Zhongshan, cultivated land, forest land and wetland, and had a certain damage to the comprehensive ecological quality of vegetation in high mountains, but it was impossible to determine whether the earthquake had an impact on the comprehensive ecological quality of vegetation in grassland and shrubs. (4) There were some differences in the effects of meteorological factors on the restoration rate of comprehensive ecological quality of vegetation in different degrees. Precipitation could promote the restoration of ecological quality better than temperature.