Complexity revealed in the greening of the Arctic

IH Myers-Smith, JT Kerby, GK Phoenix… - Nature Climate …, 2020 - nature.com
As the Arctic warms, vegetation is responding, and satellite measures indicate widespread
greening at high latitudes. This 'greening of the Arctic'is among the world's most important …

[HTML][HTML] Current and near-term advances in Earth observation for ecological applications

SL Ustin, EM Middleton - Ecological Processes, 2021 - Springer
There is an unprecedented array of new satellite technologies with capabilities for
advancing our understanding of ecological processes and the changing composition of the …

Siberian carbon sink reduced by forest disturbances

L Fan, JP Wigneron, P Ciais, J Chave, M Brandt… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Siberian forests are generally thought to have acted as an important carbon sink over recent
decades, but exposure to severe droughts and fire disturbances may have impacted their …

Dual influence of climate change and anthropogenic activities on the spatiotemporal vegetation dynamics over the Qinghai‐Tibetan plateau from 1981 to 2015

Y Wei, H Lu, J Wang, X Wang, J Sun - Earth's Future, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Climate change and human activities have already caused degradation in a large fraction of
vegetation on the Qinghai‐Tibetan Plateau (QTP). Many studies report that climate variability …

[HTML][HTML] Production of global daily seamless data cubes and quantification of global land cover change from 1985 to 2020-iMap World 1.0

H Liu, P Gong, J Wang, X Wang, G Ning… - Remote Sensing of …, 2021 - Elsevier
Longer time high-resolution, high-frequency, consistent, and more detailed land cover data
are urgently needed in order to achieve sustainable development goals on food security …

The vegetation greenness trend in Canada and US Alaska from 1984–2012 Landsat data

J Ju, JG Masek - Remote Sensing of Environment, 2016 - Elsevier
Abstract To assess the North American high-latitude vegetation response to the rising
temperature, we derived NDVI trend for 91.2% of the non-water, non-snow land area of …

Lessons learned implementing an operational continuous United States national land change monitoring capability: The Land Change Monitoring, Assessment, and …

JF Brown, HJ Tollerud, CP Barber, Q Zhou… - Remote Sensing of …, 2020 - Elsevier
Growing demands for temporally specific information on land surface change are fueling a
new generation of maps and statistics that can contribute to understanding geographic and …

Shrub expansion in tundra ecosystems: dynamics, impacts and research priorities

IH Myers-Smith, BC Forbes, M Wilmking… - Environmental …, 2011 - iopscience.iop.org
Recent research using repeat photography, long-term ecological monitoring and
dendrochronology has documented shrub expansion in arctic, high-latitude and alpine …

[LIBRO][B] Use of the Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) to assess Land degradation at multiple scales: current status, future trends, and practical …

GT Yengoh, D Dent, L Olsson, AE Tengberg… - 2015 - books.google.com
This report examines the scientific basis for the use of remotely sensed data, particularly
Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI), primarily for the assessment of land …

Spatio-temporal analysis of vegetation variation in the Yellow River Basin

W Jiang, L Yuan, W Wang, R Cao, Y Zhang, W Shen - Ecological Indicators, 2015 - Elsevier
To understand the variation and patterns of vegetation coverage in the Yellow River Basin,
as well as to promote regional ecological protection and maintain ecological construction …