The cold desert ecosystem of the north-western Himalaya in India’s is considered to be the most vulnerable region to climate change. In this region, Juniperus macropoda Boisser grows across an altitudinal gradient and is highly sensitive to bio...
Vegetation belongs to the components of the Earth surface, which are most extensively studied using historic and present satellite records. Recently, these records exceeded a 30-year time span composed of preprocessed fortnightly observations (1981–2...
Climate change dominantly controls the spatial distributions of potential vegetation ecosystems; the shift trends in the mean centers of potential vegetation ecosystems could be used to explain their responses to climate change. In terms of the clima...
Shifting cultivation remains a primary farming system in Myanmar’s mountainous regions. However, population growth and economic pressures have disrupted its traditional balance. This study aimed to clarify historical land-use patterns and evalu...
Unexpected vegetation shift is a serious problem caused by climate change, resulting in considerable damage to local communities. It is necessary to be continuously monitored, and the soil microbial community is expected to reflect the pressure on fo...
This study aimed to determine the impact of invasive Rosa rugosa Thunb. on the plant communities of the Baltic coastal dunes. The study was carried out in 22 sites scattered along the Hel Peninsula (Poland). Each site consisted of a pair of plots: a...
Climate change will cause substantial vegetation shifts across the world. Africa may face varying dynamics such as tree decline, savannization, and woody encroachment due to rising temperatures and rainfall changes. This study examines the potential...
Different functional and structural strategies to cope with water shortage exist both within and across plant communities. The current trend towards increasing drought in many regions could drive some species to their physiological limits of drought...
Mediterranean coastal groundwater-dependent ecosystems are among the most vulnerable environments to the combined effects of climate change and local anthropogenic pressures, yet long-term quantitative assessments disentangling these drivers remain l...
Alpine vegetation is scarce in central Mexico (≈150 km2) and occurs on the 11 highest peaks of the Trans-Mexican Volcanic Belt (TMVB). Timberline occurs at (3700) 3900 m, and at 4750 m vascular plants cease to exist. The alpine vascular flora c...
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...
Forest vegetation dynamics are changing under climate change, with important implications for biodiversity conservation, ecosystem services, carbon cycling, and livelihoods. Vegetation regulates terrestrial carbon storage and biophysical feedbacks, b...
Beavers are classified as ecosystem engineers because their activities can significantly alter environmental conditions. Vegetation and landscape changes, based on a series of vegetation maps and satellite images between 1994 and 2022, were studied i...
The trend of vegetation phenology dynamics is of crucial importance for understanding vegetation growth and its responses to climate change. However, it remains unclear how the trends of vegetation phenology changed over the past decades. By analyzin...
Windstorms are rare in the Southern Alps, but their frequency is increasing due to climate change. This research analyzed the vegetation of two spruce forests in Camonica Valley (Northern Italy) destroyed by the Vaia storm to evaluate the vegetation...
In recent decades, vegetation coverage and land use/land cover (LULC) have constantly changed, especially in southwest China. Therefore, it is necessary to conduct in-depth research into the temporal–spatial variation patterns of vegetation gre...
Studying the significant impacts of drought on vegetation is crucial to understand its dynamics and interrelationships with precipitation, soil moisture, and temperature. In North and West Africa regions, the effects of drought on vegetation have not...
Climate extremes are becoming more frequent with global climate change and have the potential to cause major ecological regime shifts. Along the northern Gulf of Mexico, a coastal wetland in Texas suffered sudden vegetation dieback following an extre...
The increasing water temperature due to climate change has led to more frequent algae blooms and deteriorating water quality in coastal areas and rivers worldwide. To address this, we developed a deep learning-based model for identifying floating alg...
Projected climate changes in the Mediterranean exceed those in most European regions, yet their effects on vegetation remain uncertain. We investigated vegetation changes in the Agri Valley (Basilicata, Italy) using 318 plots, including 40 resurveys....
Climate change and anthropogenic factors’ impact on habitat loss is a growing problem that is influencing unsustainable wildlife local-population home range shifts and triggering an increase in human–wildlife conflict (HWC). Yet, keystone...
Eucalyptus Longhorned Borers (ELB) are some of the most destructive pests in regions with Mediterranean climate. Low rainfall and extended dry summers cause stress in eucalyptus trees and facilitate ELB infestation. Due to the difficulty of monitorin...
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...
This pioneering study examined the complex interplay between climate changes and landscape ecological dynamics through a spatiotemporal analysis (1980–2023) of China’s climatically vulnerable Qinling Mountains. The results revealed signif...
A problem of the noise-induced generation and shifts of phantom attractors in nonlinear dynamical systems is considered. On the basis of the model describing interaction of the climate and vegetation we study the probabilistic mechanisms of noise-ind...
Under global warming, drought frequency and its severity have risen notably, posing considerable challenges to vegetation growth. Central Asia (CA), recognized as the largest non-zonal arid zone globally, features dryland ecosystems that are particul...
High-lying vegetated marshes and low-lying bare mudflats have been suggested to be two stable states in intertidal ecosystems. Being able to identify the conditions enabling the shifts between these two stable states is of great importance for ecosys...
Phenology is a critical mirror reflecting vegetation growth and has a major impact on terrestrial ecosystems. The Loess Plateau (LP) is a paramount ecological zone in China that has experienced considerable vegetation changes. However, understanding...
Dryland ecosystems are critical in regulating the interannual variability of the global terrestrial carbon cycle. The responses of such ecosystems to weather and environmental conditions remain important factors that limit the accurate projections of...
Riparian ecosystems are valuable to the ecological and human communities that depend on them. Over the past century, they have been subject to shifting management practices to maximize human use and ecosystem services, creating a complex relationship...
The Greater Mekong Subregion (GMS) economic cooperation program is an effective and fruitful regional cooperation initiative for socioeconomic development in Asia; however, the vegetation change trends and directions in the GMS caused by rapid develo...
Changes to the frequency of fire due to management decisions and climate change have the potential to affect the flammability of vegetation, with long-term effects on the vegetation structure and composition. Frequent fire in some vegetation types ca...
Tropical countries are now facing increasing global pressure to conserve tropical forests, while having to maintain cultivated lands (particularly shifting cultivation) for the subsistence of local people. To accomplish the effective conservation of...
Climate warming is altering seasonal snow regimes and vegetation phenology in cold regions, but the influence of snowmelt may extend well beyond spring thaw. We examined how snow-related associations with net primary productivity (NPP) changed across...
The fraction of absorbed photosynthetically active radiation (FPAR) is a key biophysiological parameter of terrestrial ecosystems. However, due to a lack of data with adequate spatial resolution and in long enough time series, there have been limitat...
Increasing temperatures and wildfire incidence and decreasing precipitation and river runoff in southern Africa are predicted to have a variety of impacts on the ecology, structure, and function of semi-arid savannas, which provide innumerable liveli...
Herbaceous vegetation under sand-fixing plantations is critical for ecosystem stability. Phosphorus (P) represents a key growth-limiting factor for plants in sandy soils, yet systematic understanding of P-cycling microbial communities including their...
Recently, droughts have become widespread in the Northern Hemisphere, including in Mongolia. The ground surface condition, particularly vegetation coverage, affects the occurrence of dust storms. The main sources of dust storms in the Asian region ar...
We evaluated the effects of site preparation treatments on growth of lodgepole pine and white spruce in north-eastern British Columbia, Canada. These treatments can provide yield gains of up to 10 percent for lodgepole pine and white spruce at 60 and...
Slash-and-burn agriculture (SBA) is critical to maintaining rural peoples’ livelihoods. Yet, it causes environmental degradations that challenge its sustainability. Such degradations are often underestimated, as they are usually assessed at the...
Accurate weed mapping in cereal fields requires pixel-level segmentation from unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) imagery that remains reliable across fields, seasons, and illumination. Existing multispectral pipelines often depend on thresholded vegetatio...
Canopy Leaf Area Index (CLAI) is a stand attribute containing information on the real-time health and growth potential of managed pine plantations. Current remote sensing techniques for quantifying CLAI rely on simple linear models applied to satelli...
Microbial necromass C (MNC) represents a substantial pool of soil organic C (SOC), but its long-term response to organic N substitution remains poorly resolved in open-field vegetable soils. We examined endpoint soils from a 13-year equal-N field tri...
On 9 January 2018, Carpinteria Salt Marsh Reserve received a large quantity of sediment following debris flows in Montecito, California. Because disturbances potentially impact the ecosystem services and functions that wetlands provide, an understand...
Climate change will alter the site conditions for European vegetation. This is likely to shift the potential distribution of species and habitats outside its current boundaries. To enable future projections on shifts in vegetation potentials, we fitt...
Since the implementation of the great western development strategy in 2000, the ecological environment in the western region of China has been significantly improved. In order to explore the temporal and spatial characteristics of vegetation coverage...
It is known that evapotranspiration (ET) differs before and after vegetation change in watersheds. However, impacts of vegetation change on ET remain incompletely understood. In this paper, we investigated the process-specific, nonclimatic contributi...
Background: As the 24-h economy expands, an increasing share of the global workforce engages in nighttime work. Most previous studies have documented adverse effects among healthcare workers and in high-income countries. Evidence in low-income earner...
Biodiversity loss occurring in mountain ecosystems calls for integrative approaches to improve monitoring processes in the face of human-induced changes. With a combination of vegetation and remotely-sensed time series data, we quantitatively identif...
The natural shift in land cover from non-vegetated to vegetated land is termed as vegetation expansion, which has substantial impacts on regional climate conditions and land surface energy balance. Barrens dominate the northwestern Tibetan Plateau, w...
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