Remote sensing of the terrestrial carbon cycle: A review of advances over 50 years

J Xiao, F Chevallier, C Gomez, L Guanter… - Remote sensing of …, 2019 - Elsevier
Quantifying ecosystem carbon fluxes and stocks is essential for better understanding the
global carbon cycle and improving projections of the carbon-climate feedbacks. Remote …

Evolution of light use efficiency models: Improvement, uncertainties, and implications

Y Pei, J Dong, Y Zhang, W Yuan, R Doughty… - Agricultural and Forest …, 2022 - Elsevier
Light use efficiency (LUE) models have been widely used to estimate terrestrial gross
primary production (GPP) at local, regional, and global scales, which is vital for …

Assessment of red-edge vegetation indices for crop leaf area index estimation

T Dong, J Liu, J Shang, B Qian, B Ma… - Remote Sensing of …, 2019 - Elsevier
This study explores the potential of vegetation indices (VIs) for crop leaf area index (LAI)
estimation, with a focus on comparing red-edge reflectance based (RE-based) and the …

Toward more realistic projections of soil carbon dynamics by Earth system models

Y Luo, A Ahlström, SD Allison, NH Batjes… - Global …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Soil carbon (C) is a critical component of Earth system models (ESMs), and its diverse
representations are a major source of the large spread across models in the terrestrial C …

The sensitivity of soil respiration to soil temperature, moisture, and carbon supply at the global scale

A Hursh, A Ballantyne, L Cooper… - Global Change …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Soil respiration (Rs) is a major pathway by which fixed carbon in the biosphere is returned to
the atmosphere, yet there are limits to our ability to predict respiration rates using …

Water use efficiency of China's terrestrial ecosystems and responses to drought

Y Liu, J Xiao, W Ju, Y Zhou, S Wang, X Wu - Scientific reports, 2015 - nature.com
Water use efficiency (WUE) measures the trade-off between carbon gain and water loss of
terrestrial ecosystems and better understanding its dynamics and controlling factors is …

Chlorophyll fluorescence observed by OCO-2 is strongly related to gross primary productivity estimated from flux towers in temperate forests

X Li, J Xiao, B He - Remote Sensing of Environment, 2018 - Elsevier
Solar-induced chlorophyll fluorescence (SIF) opens a new perspective on the monitoring of
vegetation photosynthesis from space, and has been recently used to estimate gross …

Global patterns, trends, and drivers of water use efficiency from 2000 to 2013

BL Xue, Q Guo, A Otto, J Xiao, S Tao, L Li - Ecosphere, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Water use efficiency (WUE; gross primary production [GPP]/evapotranspiration [ET])
estimates the tradeoff between carbon gain and water loss during photosynthesis and is an …

Sources of uncertainty in gross primary productivity simulated by light use efficiency models: Model structure, parameters, input data, and spatial resolution

Y Zheng, L Zhang, J Xiao, W Yuan, M Yan, T Li… - Agricultural and forest …, 2018 - Elsevier
Accurate estimation of gross primary productivity (GPP) is essential for understanding
ecosystem function and global carbon cycling. However, there is still substantial uncertainty …

Integrating continuous atmospheric boundary layer and tower-based flux measurements to advance understanding of land-atmosphere interactions

M Helbig, T Gerken, ER Beamesderfer… - Agricultural and Forest …, 2021 - Elsevier
The atmospheric boundary layer mediates the exchange of energy, matter, and momentum
between the land surface and the free troposphere, integrating a range of physical …