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Vegetative Response to Meteorological Factors in a Desert Oasis Area Based on Principal Component Analysis

Hengjia Zhang1,2,*, Yuanyuan Shi 1,2,3, Xietian Chen1,2,3 and Haiyan Li2

1 College of Agriculture and Biology, Liaocheng University, Liaocheng, Shandong, 252059, China 2 College of Water Conservancy and Hydropower Engineering, Gansu Agricultural University, Lanzhou, Gansu, 730070, China 3 Yimin Irrigation Experimental Station, Hongshui River Management Office, Zhangye, Gansu, 734500, China * Correspondence: Hengjia Zhang, College of Agriculture and Biology, Liaocheng University, Liaocheng, Shandong, 252059, China; College of Water Conservancy and Hydropower Engineering, Gansu Agricultural University, Lanzhou, Gansu, 730070, China

Vol. 4 (2025): 2025 International Conference on Agricultural Sciences, Economics, Biomedical and Environmental Sciences (SEMBE 2025)

Received: 2026-05-23

Accepted: 2026-05-23

Published: 2026-05-23

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Abstract

Based on the principal component analysis, we aimed to explore the mechanism for dynamics of oasis vegetation coverage on the basis of related meteorological factors. According to the six indicators including the annual precipitation, annual evaporation, average humidity, average wind speed, average temperature, and annual sunshine hour, two independent principal components such as annual evaporation and average temperature were extracted, with the cumulative variance contribution rate of 85.84%. The driving mechanism of meteorological drought in the whole desert oasis area was analyzed. The results showed that during the study period the annual evapotranspiration, average temperature, precipitation and humidity had greater influence on vegetation coverage dynamics than other two meteorological factors such as annual sunshine hours and wind speed. The partial correlation analysis indicated that the vegetative index was positively correlated with the average temperature (X5) and average humidity (X3) with the partial correlation coefficients and the correlation coefficient of 0.98, 0.977, and -0.901 respectively. However, the vegetative index was negatively correlated with the annual evaporation (X2) with the coefficient of -0.901. Therefore, the present work supplemented the effects of evaporation and humidity on the vegetative index, and we proposed that when the external drought weather conditions was not under control effectively, the manual intervention would still be the first choice to improve the vegetation coverage, which was to provide theoretical gists for vegetation growth and ecological restoration in desert oasis area.

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