Remote sensing algorithms for estimation of fractional vegetation cover using pure vegetation index values: A review

L Gao, X Wang, BA Johnson, Q Tian, Y Wang… - ISPRS Journal of …, 2020 - Elsevier
Green fractional vegetation cover (fc) is an important phenotypic factor in the fields of
agriculture, forestry, and ecology. Spatially explicit monitoring of fc via relative vegetation …

Understanding interactions among climate, water, and vegetation with the Budyko framework

G Gan, Y Liu, G Sun - Earth-Science Reviews, 2021 - Elsevier
The Budyko models provide a transparent framework for analyzing climate-catchment
interactions and therefore have been widely used to quantify the role of vegetation …

[HTML][HTML] Why Brazil needs its legal reserves

JP Metzger, MMC Bustamante, J Ferreira… - Perspectives in Ecology …, 2019 - Elsevier
Brazil's environmental legislation obliges private properties to retain a fixed proportion of
their total area with native vegetation, the so-called “Legal Reserves”. Those areas …

Deforestation, forestation, and water supply

M Zhang, X Wei - Science, 2021 - science.org
Forests as natural reservoirs and filters can store, release, and purify water through their
interactions with hydrological processes. For humans, a clean, stable, and predictable water …

[HTML][HTML] The contributions of natural and anthropogenic factors to NDVI variations on the Loess Plateau in China during 2000–2020

Y Zhang, X Jiang, Y Lei, S Gao - Ecological Indicators, 2022 - Elsevier
Vegetation, being a core component of ecosystems, is known to be influenced by natural
and anthropogenic factors. Studying vegetation cover dynamics variation and its drivers is …

Climate change, reforestation/afforestation, and urbanization impacts on evapotranspiration and streamflow in Europe

AJ Teuling, EAG De Badts, FA Jansen… - Hydrology and Earth …, 2019 - hess.copernicus.org
Since the 1950s, Europe has undergone large shifts in climate and land cover. Previous
assessments of past and future changes in evapotranspiration or streamflow have either …

Watershed ecohydrological processes in a changing environment: opportunities and challenges

Z Cao, S Wang, P Luo, D Xie, W Zhu - Water, 2022 - mdpi.com
Basin ecohydrological processes are essential for informing policymaking and social
development in response to growing environmental problems. In this paper, we review …

Global spatiotemporal trend of satellite-based soil moisture and its influencing factors in the early 21st century

C Peng, J Zeng, KS Chen, Z Li, H Ma, X Zhang… - Remote Sensing of …, 2023 - Elsevier
Soil moisture (SM) plays a significant role in water, energy, and carbon cycles, and is a key
variable related to multiple sustainable development goals. The frequent occurrence of …

Forest restoration and hydrology

J Jones, D Ellison, S Ferraz, A Lara, X Wei… - Forest Ecology and …, 2022 - Elsevier
Forest restoration aims to increase forest cover, structure, function, and/or species
composition, and it influences hydrology through the partitioning of precipitation into …

Divergent hydrological responses to forest expansion in dry and wet basins of China: implications for future afforestation planning

B Xue, G Wang, D Helman, G Sun… - Water Resources …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Afforestation to control soil erosion has been implemented throughout China over the past
few decades. The long‐term hydrological effects, such as total water yield and baseflow, of …