Vegetation indices are commonly used techniques for the retrieval of biophysical and chemical attributes of vegetation. This paper presents the potential of an Autoencoders (AEs) and Convolutional Autoencoders (CAEs)-based self-supervised learning ap...
Rainfall-prone shallow landslides account for one-fifth of the global land area, and rainfall is critical to the mechanics and hydrology of shallow slopes. In typical geological disaster-prone areas, the hydrodynamic responses of slopes with differen...
Understanding the integrated effects of vegetation types on the physicochemical properties and quality of sandy soils is crucial for guiding vegetation reconstruction and ecological restoration in desertified areas. This study selected three vegetati...
This study aims to evaluate three classes of methods to discriminate between 13 peatland vegetation types using reflectance data. These vegetation types were empirically defined according to their composition, strata and biodiversity richness. On one...
Air oxygen content, an essential index for measuring air quality, is affected by vegetation and the environment in the forest. However, the scientific understanding of the influential mechanism of air oxygen content in different vegetation types is s...
Lightning is a major natural ignition source of wildfires across forest, grassland, and cropland ecosystems. Accurate prediction of lightning-ignited fire occurrence remains challenging due to uncertainties in spatiotemporal alignment caused by veget...
Clarifying the response of soil microbial communities to the change of different vegetation types on a small regional scale is of great significance for understanding the sustainability of grassland development. However, the distribution patterns and...
Studying the variation in vegetation types within the source region of the Yellow River (SRYR) is of great significance for understanding the response of vegetation to climate change and human activities on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau (QTP) permafrost....
The increasing frequency of extreme climate events may significantly alter the species composition, structure, and functionality of ecosystems, thereby diminishing their stability and resilience. This study draws on temperature and precipitation data...
Knowledge of soil organic carbon (SOC) dynamics underpins accurate estimation of carbon sequestration in fragile ecosystems. However, most studies focus on SOC content in bulk soil while neglecting its distribution within soil aggregate fractions and...
Mountainous vegetation type classification plays a fundamental role in resource investigation in forested areas, making it necessary to accurately identify mountain vegetation types. However, Mountainous vegetation growth is readily affected by terra...
Volcanic lava has a complete primary succession; the plant community composition can explain a great part of the variation of soil microbial diversity and community structure. Bacteria dominate the soil microbial communities in abundance and diversit...
Soil carbon and nitrogen pools are crucial for maintaining the balance of carbon and nitrogen cycling in ecosystems and also for reducing the impacts of global climate change. However, current research lacks an understanding of the effects of long-te...
The restorative effects of various environmental factors within urban forests on physical and mental health exhibit significant differences. Specifically, vegetation types and topographical slope positions are key elements contributing to the environ...
To promote soil carbon (C) sequestration and alleviate climate change, it is crucial to understand how vegetation types affect soil organic C (SOC) storage and stability in riverine wetlands. This study investigates the characteristics of SOC fractio...
This study investigates how different vegetation types influence the molecular structure and abundance of soil organic carbon (SOC), as well as their influence on microbial metabolic pathways and community composition. Soil samples were collected fro...
Ground-level ozone (O3) pollution is a problem when managing air quality in China, and biogenic volatile organic compounds (BVOCs) are key precursors of O3 formation. Vegetation type and temperature influence BVOC emissions, yet the differences in em...
Regional maps of vegetation structure are necessary for delineating species habitats and for supporting conservation and ecological analyses. A systematic approach that can discriminate a wide range of meaningful and detailed vegetation classes is st...
Data on the effect of vegetation and land use type on soil organic carbon (SOC) distribution in particle-size and density fractions in the subtropical forest region in China will improve our understanding of the C sequestration potential of those di...
Globally, rapid urbanisation is one of the major drivers for land-use changes, many of which have a marked impact on urban air quality. Urban forestry has been increasingly proposed as a means of reducing airborne pollutants; however, limited studies...
Analyzing the ecological stoichiometric characteristics and soil enzyme activity of litter and soil in different vegetation types within karst areas can help to clarify the nutrient cycles and element abundance in those areas, in addition to providin...
Soil heavy metal (HM) contamination has become a critical global environmental issue, predominantly caused by industrial and agricultural operations. This study focuses on Mount Wuyi, a UNESCO biodiversity hotspot and major tea production base, to ex...
To reveal distribution characteristics of glomalin-related soil protein (GRSP) and it’s influencing factors under different vegetation types in the drought-tolerant shrubland of Helan Mountain, we chose three vegetation types as study subjects:...
This study investigated the spatial variability in soil organic carbon (SOC), total nitrogen (TN), soil microbial biomass carbon (SMBC), soil microbial biomass nitrogen (SMBN) and their possible relationships with other soil properties in the Hongqip...
(1) Objective: To improve forest fire prevention, this study provides a reference for forest fire risk assessment in Sichuan Province. (2) Methods: This research focuses on various forest vegetation types in Sichuan Province. Given data from 6848 sam...
Microbial functional diversity is significantly associated with both nutrient cycling and organic matter decomposition. However, how different forests as well as the soil parent materials influence the soil microbial carbon metabolism remains poorly...
For different vegetation types, soil moisture content shows varying characteristics in different seasons and under different precipitation conditions. However, these characteristics have not been extensively analyzed in karst regions of southwest Chi...
Disentangling the responses of total soil organic carbon (SOC), organic carbon fractions and soil aggregate stability to various vegetation types is essential for better understanding the carbon cycling process in terrestrial ecosystems, maintaining...
Mapping vegetation types through remote sensing images has proved to be effective, especially in large biomes, such as the Brazilian Cerrado, which plays an important role in the context of management and conservation at the agricultural frontier of...
Vegetation Types (VTs) are important managerial units, and their identification serves as essential tools for the conservation of land covers. Despite a long history of Earth observation applications to assess and monitor land covers, the quantitativ...
Fine classification of vegetation types has always been the focus and difficulty in the application field of remote sensing. Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) sensors and platforms have become important data sources in various application fields due to t...
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Groundwater depth is an important environmental factor affecting vegetation growth and landscape dynamics in arid environments. This study applied a science mapping approach to visualize the development of groundwater-vegetation-related research, syn...
Terrestrial ecosystems in Hunan Province have undergone marked yet spatially heterogeneous vegetation changes under concurrent climate change and intensifying human activities. The aim of this study is to resolve how vegetation responses vary among l...
Re-vegetation types and mycorrhizal fungi reclamation play a vital role in the improvement of soil quality in the mining subsidence of the northern Loess Plateau. However, the effects of re-vegetation types and mycorrhizal fungi reclamation on plant...
Agricultural drought assessment is based on soil moisture deficit during the plant-growing season. The available long-term in situ soil moisture data can be used to evaluate the drought indices’ performance. Drought indices have different sensi...
An ecological public welfare forest is an important basis for the construction of national ecological security. This study took public welfare forests at the provincial level or above in Hunan Province as the research object. Based on the in situ mon...
As the global climate has changed, studies on the relationship between vegetation and climate have become crucial. We analyzed the long-term vegetation dynamics and diverse responses to extreme climate changes in Inner Mongolia, based on long-term Gl...
We explored the characteristics of soil bacterial communities and their ecological functions under different types of vegetation reclamation in open-pit mines on the Loess Plateau, which is the guiding significance for the selection of vegetation and...
Time-series normalized difference vegetation index (NDVI) is commonly used to conduct vegetation dynamics, which is an important research topic. However, few studies have focused on the relationship between vegetation type and NDVI changes. We invest...
(1) Background: Detailed diversity information regarding terrestrial mosses in a tropical forest ecosystem and an understanding of the drivers behind moss distribution provide crucial data for the management and conservation of forest ecosystems. Mos...
Vegetation vertical complexity influences biodiversity and ecosystem productivity. Rapid warming in the boreal region is altering patterns of vertical complexity. LiDAR sensors offer novel structural metrics for quantifying these changes, but their s...
The estimation of fractional vegetation cover (FVC) by using remote sensing images has become feasible. Based on Landsat8-OLI images and field data obtained from an unmanned aerial vehicle, we established an empirical model (EM) and a pixel decomposi...
To investigate the microwave radiation characteristics of different vegetation types, the “pure pixels” of 12 typical vegetated land types were selected and corresponding emissivity was retrieved under clear sky based on L1C AMSR2 observe...
Forest types are generally identified using vegetation or land-use types. However, vegetation classifications less frequently consider the actual forest attributes within each type. To address this in an objective way across different regions and to...
The main objective of this study is to detect and quantify changes in the vegetation dynamics of each vegetation type at the global scale over the last 17 years. With recent advances in remote sensing techniques, it is now possible to study the Leaf...
The consumption of vegetable oil is an important way for the body to obtain tocols. However, the impact of oil types and grades on the tocopherol and tocotrienol contents in vegetable oils is unclear. In this study, nine types of traditional edible o...
Environmental heterogeneity is considered an important factor supporting the evolution and maintenance of biodiversity. At small scales, such heterogeneity is thought to promote species co-existence through an increase in niche opportunities. Amazoni...
Urban vegetation can regulate ecological balance, reduce the influence of urban heat islands, and improve human beings’ mental state. Accordingly, classification of urban vegetation types plays a significant role in urban vegetation research. T...
Droughts affect economic, social, and environmental aspects in regions such as the Korean Peninsula, where more than 70% of the area comprises forests; hence, their monitoring is imperative. Despite the many indices and methodologies developed for mo...
Shear strength is an important mechanical property of soil, as its mechanical function plays critical roles in reducing land degradation and preventing soil erosion. However, shear strength may be affected by vegetation type through changes in the so...
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