Detecting forest response to droughts with global observations of vegetation water content

AG Konings, SS Saatchi, C Frankenberg… - Global Change …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Droughts in a warming climate have become more common and more extreme, making
understanding forest responses to water stress increasingly pressing. Analysis of water …

Remote sensing of dryland ecosystem structure and function: Progress, challenges, and opportunities

WK Smith, MP Dannenberg, D Yan, S Herrmann… - Remote Sensing of …, 2019 - Elsevier
Drylands make up roughly 40% of the Earth's land surface, and billions of people depend on
services provided by these critically important ecosystems. Despite their relatively sparse …

Observed increasing water constraint on vegetation growth over the last three decades

W Jiao, L Wang, WK Smith, Q Chang, H Wang… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Despite the growing interest in predicting global and regional trends in vegetation
productivity in response to a changing climate, changes in water constraint on vegetation …

[HTML][HTML] Anthropogenic climate change has driven over 5 million km2 of drylands towards desertification

AL Burrell, JP Evans, MG De Kauwe - Nature communications, 2020 - nature.com
Drylands cover 41% of the earth's land surface and include 45% of the world's agricultural
land. These regions are among the most vulnerable ecosystems to anthropogenic climate …

Divergent forest sensitivity to repeated extreme droughts

WRL Anderegg, AT Trugman, G Badgley… - Nature Climate …, 2020 - nature.com
Climate change-driven increases in drought frequency and severity could compromise forest
ecosystems and the terrestrial carbon sink,–. While the impacts of single droughts on forests …

Increasing global vegetation browning hidden in overall vegetation greening: Insights from time-varying trends

N Pan, X Feng, B Fu, S Wang, F Ji, S Pan - Remote Sensing of …, 2018 - Elsevier
Global vegetation dynamics are of critical importance for understanding changes in
ecosystem structure and functioning and their responses to different natural and …

Pronounced loss of Amazon rainforest resilience since the early 2000s

CA Boulton, TM Lenton, N Boers - Nature Climate Change, 2022 - nature.com
The resilience of the Amazon rainforest to climate and land-use change is crucial for
biodiversity, regional climate and the global carbon cycle. Deforestation and climate change …

Nature's role in supporting health during the COVID-19 pandemic: A geospatial and socioecological study

JM Robinson, P Brindley, R Cameron… - International journal of …, 2021 - mdpi.com
The COVID-19 pandemic has brought about unprecedented changes to human lifestyles
across the world. The virus and associated social restriction measures have been linked to …

Desertification

A Mirzabaev, J Wu, J Evans, F García-Oliva… - 2019 - philpapers.org
Abstract IPCC SPECIAL REPORT ON CLIMATE CHANGE AND LAND (SRCCL) Chapter 3:
Climate Change and Land: An IPCC special report on climate change, desertification, land …

A new SMAP soil moisture and vegetation optical depth product (SMAP-IB): Algorithm, assessment and inter-comparison

X Li, JP Wigneron, L Fan, F Frappart, SH Yueh… - Remote Sensing of …, 2022 - Elsevier
Passive microwave remote sensing at L-band (1.4 GHz) provides an unprecedented
opportunity to estimate global surface soil moisture (SM) and vegetation water content (via …