Arctic tundra shrubification: a review of mechanisms and impacts on ecosystem carbon balance

ZA Mekonnen, WJ Riley, LT Berner… - Environmental …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
Vegetation composition shifts, and in particular, shrub expansion across the Arctic tundra
are some of the most important and widely observed responses of high-latitude ecosystems …

Integrating remote sensing and ground methods to estimate evapotranspiration

EP Glenn, AR Huete, PL Nagler… - Critical Reviews in …, 2007 - Taylor & Francis
Evapotranspiraton (ET) is the second largest term in the terrestrial water budget after
precipitation, and ET is expected to increase with global warming. ET studies are relevant to …

Impacts of climate change and human activities on grassland vegetation variation in the Chinese Loess Plateau

K Zheng, JZ Wei, JY Pei, H Cheng, XL Zhang… - Science of the Total …, 2019 - Elsevier
China initiated the “Grain for Green Project” in 1999 to mitigate soil erosion. The vegetation
cover of the Chinese Loess Plateau, one of the most erosive regions in the world, has been …

Large herbivores surf waves of green-up during spring

JA Merkle, KL Monteith, EO Aikens… - … of the Royal …, 2016 - royalsocietypublishing.org
The green wave hypothesis (GWH) states that migrating animals should track or 'surf'high-
quality forage at the leading edge of spring green-up. To index such high-quality forage …

[图书][B] The normalized difference vegetation index

N Pettorelli - 2013 - books.google.com
There has been a recent surge of interest in remote sensing and its use in ecology and
conservation but this is the first book to focus explicitly on the NDVI (Normalised Difference …

Determining the contributions of climate change and human activities to vegetation dynamics in agro-pastural transitional zone of northern China from 2000 to 2015

H Jiang, X Xu, M Guan, L Wang, Y Huang… - Science of the Total …, 2020 - Elsevier
The vegetation in the agro-pastoral transitional zone of northern China (APTZNC) was
significantly restored, and both climate change and ecological restoration projects …

Using imaging spectroscopy to study ecosystem processes and properties

SL Ustin, DA Roberts, JA Gamon, GP Asner… - …, 2004 - academic.oup.com
Abstract Remote sensing data provide essential input for today's climate and ecosystem
models. It is generally agreed that many model processes are not accurately depicted by …

Dynamics of aboveground phytomass of the circumpolar Arctic tundra during the past three decades

HE Epstein, MK Raynolds, DA Walker… - Environmental …, 2012 - iopscience.iop.org
Numerous studies have evaluated the dynamics of Arctic tundra vegetation throughout the
past few decades, using remotely sensed proxies of vegetation, such as the normalized …

The human footprint in the west: a large‐scale analysis of anthropogenic impacts

M Leu, SE Hanser, ST Knick - Ecological applications, 2008 - Wiley Online Library
Anthropogenic features such as urbanization, roads, and power lines, are increasing in
western United States landscapes in response to rapidly growing human populations …

Estimating aboveground biomass and leaf area of low-stature Arctic shrubs with terrestrial LiDAR

HE Greaves, LA Vierling, JUH Eitel, NT Boelman… - Remote Sensing of …, 2015 - Elsevier
Arctic tundra ecosystems are responding to effects of climatic warming via shifts in
vegetation composition and increased woody biomass. In this sensitive ecosystem, minor …