The pattern of vegetation change in response to global change still remains a controversial issue. A Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) dataset compiled by the Global Inventory Modeling and Mapping Studies (GIMMS) was used for analysis. Fo...
Global greening over the past 30 years since 1980s has been confirmed by numerous studies. However, a single-dimensional indicator and non-spatial modelling approaches might exacerbate uncertainties in our understanding of global change. Thus, compre...
Exploring NPP changes and their corresponding drivers is significant for the achievement of sustainable ecosystem management and in addressing climate change. This study aimed to explore the spatiotemporal variation in NPP and analyze the effects of...
The Irtysh River Basin (IRB), a transboundary river basin spanning China, Kazakhstan, and Russia, has experienced significant vegetation changes driven by climate change and human activities. This study investigated the spatiotemporal dynamics of dif...
Understanding vegetation changes and their driving forces in global alpine areas is critical in the context of climate change. We aimed to reveal the changing trend in global alpine vegetation from 1981 to 2015 using the least squares regression meth...
Understanding the dynamics of vegetation change is crucial for comprehending ecosystem functioning and its response to anthropogenic activities and climate change. This study investigates significant vegetation changes worldwide and aims to identify...
The quantitative assessment of vegetation resilience and resistance is worthwhile to deeply understand the responses of vegetation growth to climate anomalies. However, few studies comprehensively evaluate the spatiotemporal resilience and resistance...
With the increasing impact of climate change on ecosystems, it is crucial to analyze how changes in precipitation and temperature affect global ecosystems. Therefore, this study aims to investigate the spatiotemporal variation characteristics of the...
In this study, a machine learning model was used to investigate the potential consequences of climate change on vegetation growth. The methodology involved analyzing the historical Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) data and future climate...
Changes in vegetation dynamics play a critical role in terrestrial ecosystems and environments. Remote sensing products and dynamic global vegetation models (DGVMs) are useful for studying vegetation dynamics. In this study, we revised the Community...
The detection of global land change via satellite observation is a major challenge in improving the understanding of global environmental change. In this study, we develop a new vegetation index which can be used as a proxy for the fractions of tree...
To estimate global gross primary production (GPP), which is an important parameter for studies of vegetation productivity and the carbon cycle, satellite data are useful. In 2014, the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) plans to launch the Glob...
Vegetation seasonality is a critical indicator of ecological responses to global climate change, especially in the Iberian Peninsula, where the intersection of human activity and climate variability amplifies these effects. Understanding these change...
Global change, particularly climate change, poses a risk of altering vegetation composition and health. The consequences manifest throughout Earth’s system as a change in ecosystem services and socioecological stability. It is therefore critical that...
Currently, global climate change (GCC) and the urban heat island (UHI) phenomena are becoming serious problems, partly due to the artificial construction of the land surface. When sunlight reaches the land surface, some of it is absorbed and some is...
The global increase in wildfires due to climate change highlights the need for accurate wildfire mapping. This study performs a proof of concept on the usefulness of SuperDove imagery for wildfire mapping. To address this topic, we present an automat...
8 October 2018
This study estimates the impact of potential climate change, and human interference (anthropogenic deforestation), on temperate forest carbon pool change in the capital area of South Korea, using a dynamic global vegetation model (DGVM). Additionally...
The timing, duration, magnitude and synchronicity of plant life cycles are fundamental aspects of community dynamics and ecosystem functioning, and information on phenodynamics is essential for accurate vegetation classification and modeling. Here, w...
The presence and distribution of green vegetation cover in the biosphere are of paramount importance in investigating cause-effect phenomena at the land/atmosphere interface, estimating primary production rates as part of global carbon and water cycl...
Urban vegetation provides many ecosystem services that make cities more liveable for people. As the world continues to urbanise, the vegetation cover in urban areas is changing rapidly. Here we use Google Earth Engine to map vegetation cover in all u...
Green vegetation plays a vital role in energy flows and matter cycles in terrestrial ecosystems, and vegetation phenology may not only be influenced by, but also impose active feedback on, climate changes. The phenological events of vegetation such a...
Vegetation forms a main component of the terrestrial biosphere owing to its crucial role in land cover and climate change, which has been of wide concern for experts and scholars. In this study, we used MODIS (moderate-resolution imaging spectroradio...
Vegetation plays a fundamental role within terrestrial ecosystems, serving as a cornerstone of their functionality. Presently, these crucial ecosystems face a myriad of threats, including deforestation, overgrazing, wildfires, and the impact of clima...
The terrestrial ecosystem plays a vital role in regulating the exchange of carbon between land and atmosphere. This study investigates how terrestrial vegetation coverage and carbon fluxes change in a world stabilizing at 1.5 °C and 2 °C warm...
Global climate change exerts a systematic threat to the yield stability, nutritional quality, pest and disease control, and supply chain security of the fruit and vegetable industry via multiple ways, including altering temperature, carbon dioxide co...
Net primary productivity (NPP) is the key component of the terrestrial carbon cycle, and terrestrial NPP trends under increasing CO2 and climate change in the past and future are of great significance in the study of the global carbon budget. Here, t...
Evaluating the responses of net primary productivity (NPP) to climate change is essential for regional ecosystem management and adaptations to climate change. The Yangtze River Economic Belt (YREB) is a key ecological functional area and hotspot of c...
Greening and browning trends in vegetation have been observed in many regions of the world in recent decades. However, few studies focused on dry mountains. Here, we analyze trends of land cover change in the Western Pamirs, Tajikistan. We aim to gai...
5 December 2018
The study was the first attempt to identify the habitat use pattern of red-crowned cranes (Grus japonensis) around the demilitarized zone (DMZ) by overlapping coordinates with the land cover classification (LCC). Daily habitat use pattern was highly...
Global warming is causing some regions to experience frequent and severe drought, with important impacts on montane forest vegetation. In this study, the Qilian Mountains is on the northeastern margin of the Tibetan Plateau which was divided into thr...
Drought is a serious natural hazard with far-reaching impacts including soil damages, economic losses, and threatening the livelihood and health of local residents. The goal of the present work was to monitor the vegetation health across Lebanon in 2...
Human impact plays an increasing role on vegetation change even on the Tibetan Plateau, an area that is commonly regarded as an ideal place to study climate change. We evaluate the nature and extent of human impact on vegetation dynamics by the compa...
It is anticipated that global warming will modify precipitation and evapotranspiration patterns, consequently affecting water availability. Changes in water availability pose challenges to freshwater supply, food security, and ecosystem sustainabilit...
Satellite remote sensing has witnessed a global widespread vegetation greening since the 1980s. However, reliable observation-based quantitative knowledge on global greening remains obscure due to uncertainties in model simulations and the contributi...
Global vegetation greening during recent decades has been observed from various remote sensing data. The global and regional climate can be altered by an increase in carbon storage, as well as changes in land surface albedo (LSA) and evaporation. How...
Global ecosystem changes have multiple drivers, including both natural variability and anthropogenic climate and environmental change [...]
Changes in global temperature and precipitation over the past few decades have caused significant alterations in global climate patterns. However, the impact of these changes on global vegetation productivity remains unclear. This article evaluates t...
Under the background of global warming, understanding the dynamic of vegetation plays a key role in revealing the structure and function of an ecosystem. Assessing the impact of climate change and human activities on vegetation dynamics is crucial fo...
Research on vegetation variation is an important aspect of global warming studies. The quantification of the relationship between vegetation change and climate change has become a central topic and challenge in current global change studies. The sour...
Vegetation greenness dynamics in arid and semi-arid regions are sensitive to climate change, which is an important phenomenon in global climate change research. However, the driving mechanism, particularly for the longitudinal and latitudinal changes...
Vegetation phenology not only describes the life cycle events of periodic plants during the growing season but also acts as an indicator of biological responses to climate change. Satellite monitoring of vegetation phenology can capture the spatial p...
Understanding how the dynamics of vegetation growth respond to climate change at different temporal and spatial scales is critical to projecting future ecosystem dynamics and the adaptation of ecosystems to global change. In this study, we investigat...
Global vegetation growth is dynamically influenced and regulated by hydrological processes. Understanding vegetation responses to terrestrial water storage (TWS) dynamics is crucial for predicting ecosystem resilience and guiding water resource manag...
Since land use/cover change profoundly impacts climate change and global warming has become an irreversible trend in the Anthropocene, there have been numerous global studies on the impact of climate change on vegetation growth (VG). However, the eff...
21 July 2022
As one of the most sensitive areas to global environmental change, especially global climate change, the Qinghai–Tibet Plateau is an ideal area for studying global climate change and ecosystems. There are few studies on the analysis of the vege...
The frequency and intensity of fires are increasing because of warmer temperatures and increased droughts, as well as climate-change induced fuel distribution changes. Vegetation in environments, such as those in the mid-to-high latitudes and high el...
El Niño–Southern Oscillation (ENSO), as the strongest source of interannual variability in the tropics, has far-reaching impacts on global climate through teleconnections. As a key factor modulating the vegetation changes, the impact of...
Monitoring vegetation dynamics is essential for improving our understanding of how natural and managed agricultural landscapes respond to climate variability and change in the long term. Amathole District Municipality (ADM) in Eastern Cape Province o...
Phenology is an important indicator for how plants will respond to environmental changes and is closely related to biomass production. Due to global warming and the emergence of intermittent warming, vegetation in northeast Asia is undergoing drastic...
As an important component of terrestrial ecosystems, mountain vegetation serves as an indicator of climate change. Due to the sensitivity of the Tibetan Plateau Mountains (TPM) to climate change and their ecological fragility, their vegetation dynami...
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