Influence of protected areas in the carbon cycle: a machine learning approach for future forecasting

P Lago-González, C Acuña Alonso… - Earth Systems and …, 2024 - Springer
Abstract Protected Areas (PAs) are destined to the conservation of natural resources, whose
quantity and quality are menaced by Climate Change and anthropogenic pressure. The …

Warming and Rising Atmospheric CO2 Concentration Drive Global Woody Encroachment from 2001 to 2020

M Yu, Y Zheng, Z Zhu - Ecosystem Health and Sustainability, 2024 - spj.science.org
Woody plant encroachment (WPE) has been widely studied, yet the spatiotemporal pattern
of global WPE and its drivers remain unclear. Here, based on long-term remote sensing …

The impact of drought on terrestrial carbon in the West African Sahel: Implications for natural climate solutions

E Rigatti, SS McDermid, BI Cook… - Journal of Geophysical …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Terrestrial ecosystems store more than twice the carbon of the atmosphere, and are critical
to climate change mitigation efforts. This has led to a proliferation of land‐based carbon …

[HTML][HTML] Comparing the performance of vegetation indices for improving urban vegetation GPP estimation via eddy covariance flux data and Landsat 5/7 data

Q Zeng, X Lu, S Chen, X Cui, H Zhang, Q Zhang - Ecological Informatics, 2025 - Elsevier
Urban vegetation is pivotal in enhancing regional ecological balance and sequestering
significant amounts of carbon dioxide (CO 2) through photosynthesis, thereby contributing …

Revealing the mismatch in the response to warm-wetting climate of vegetation greenness and primary productivity using MODIS GPP/LAI in Nepal

D Zhong, L Zeng, Y Chen, Y Tong, N Bai… - Environmental …, 2025 - iopscience.iop.org
The increasingly warm-wetting climate has gradually promoted vegetation greenness on the
Tibetan Plateau and the surrounding region, yet the specific mechanisms driving this …

[HTML][HTML] Estimating Global Gross Primary Production Using an Improved MODIS Leaf Area Index Dataset

S Wang, X Zhang, L Hou, J Sun, M Xu - Remote Sensing, 2024 - mdpi.com
Remote sensing and process-coupled ecological models are widely used for the simulation
of GPP, which plays a key role in estimating and monitoring terrestrial ecosystem …

[PDF][PDF] he direct and indirect effects of the environmental factors on global terrestrial gross primary productivity over the past four decades

Y Chen, Z Zhu, W Zhao, M Li, S Cao, Y Zheng, F Tian… - 2023 - sites.bu.edu
Gross primary productivity (GPP) is jointly controlled by the structural and physiological
properties of the vegetation canopy and the changing environment. Recent studies showed …