Degradation of ecosystems can occur when certain ecological thresholds are passed below
which ecosystem responses remain within 'safe ecological limits'. Ecosystems such as …

Aridity, which is increasing worldwide because of climate change, affects the structure and
functioning of dryland ecosystems. Whether aridification leads to gradual (versus abrupt) …

Surface albedo is one of the key controlling geophysical parameters in the surface energy
budget studies, and its temporal and spatial variation is closely related to the global climate …

China has the largest afforested area in the world (∼ 62 million hectares in 2008), and these
forests are carbon sinks. The climatic effect of these new forests depends on how radiant …

China has the third largest area of marshland in the world. Due to the effects of human
activities, marshland in China has been widely converted to built‐up land (BL) and cultivated …

Surface albedo is a key parameter in the Earth's energy balance since it affects the amount
of solar radiation directly absorbed at the planet surface. Its variability in time and space can …

This study assesses the Moderate-resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS)
BRDF/albedo 8 day standard product and products from the daily Direct Broadcast …

Land surface albedo is an important parameter to describe the radiant forcing in the climate
system. A long-time series of global albedo products is needed to understand the …

A new methodology for establishing the spatial representativeness of tower albedo
measurements that are routinely used in validation of satellite retrievals from global land …

We present a new methodology to generate 30-m resolution land surface albedo using
Landsat surface reflectance and anisotropy information from concurrent MODIS 500-m …