Optical vegetation indices for monitoring terrestrial ecosystems globally

Y Zeng, D Hao, A Huete, B Dechant, J Berry… - Nature Reviews Earth & …, 2022 - nature.com
Vegetation indices (VIs), which describe remotely sensed vegetation properties such as
photosynthetic activity and canopy structure, are widely used to study vegetation dynamics …

A planetary boundary for green water

L Wang-Erlandsson, A Tobian, RJ Van der Ent… - Nature Reviews Earth & …, 2022 - nature.com
Green water—terrestrial precipitation, evaporation and soil moisture—is fundamental to
Earth system dynamics and is now extensively perturbed by human pressures at continental …

[HTML][HTML] Estimation of vegetation traits with kernel NDVI

Q Wang, Á Moreno-Martínez, J Muñoz-Marí… - ISPRS Journal of …, 2023 - Elsevier
Vegetation indices computed from spectral signatures are vastly used for monitoring the
terrestrial biosphere. Indices are convenient proxies for canopy structure, and leaf pigment …

[HTML][HTML] Spatiotemporally consistent global dataset of the GIMMS Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (PKU GIMMS NDVI) from 1982 to 2022

M Li, S Cao, Z Zhu, Z Wang… - Earth System Science …, 2023 - essd.copernicus.org
Global products of remote sensing Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) are
critical to assessing the vegetation dynamic and its impacts and feedbacks on climate …

CO2 fertilization of terrestrial photosynthesis inferred from site to global scales

C Chen, WJ Riley, IC Prentice, TF Keenan - Proceedings of the National …, 2022 - pnas.org
Global photosynthesis is increasing with elevated atmospheric CO2 concentrations, a
response known as the CO2 fertilization effect (CFE), but the key processes of CFE are not …

From remotely‐sensed solar‐induced chlorophyll fluorescence to ecosystem structure, function, and service: Part II—Harnessing data

Y Sun, J Wen, L Gu, J Joiner, CY Chang… - Global change …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Although our observing capabilities of solar‐induced chlorophyll fluorescence (SIF) have
been growing rapidly, the quality and consistency of SIF datasets are still in an active stage …

Links across ecological scales: Plant biomass responses to elevated CO2

J Maschler, L Bialic‐Murphy, J Wan… - Global Change …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
The degree to which elevated CO2 concentrations (e [CO2]) increase the amount of carbon
(C) assimilated by vegetation plays a key role in climate change. However, due to the short …

Vegetation browning: global drivers, impacts, and feedbacks

Q Liu, C Peng, R Schneider, D Cyr, Z Liu, X Zhou… - Trends in plant …, 2023 - cell.com
As global climate conditions continue to change, disturbance regimes and environmental
drivers will continue to shift, impacting global vegetation dynamics. Following a period of …

[HTML][HTML] The global greening continues despite increased drought stress since 2000

X Chen, T Chen, B He, S Liu, S Zhou, T Shi - Global Ecology and …, 2024 - Elsevier
Increases or decreases in remote sensing-based vegetation greenness are usually referred
to as greening or browning. The CO 2 fertilization along with land management determined …

Optimality principles explaining divergent responses of alpine vegetation to environmental change

Z Zhu, H Wang, SP Harrison, IC Prentice… - Global Change …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Recent increases in vegetation greenness over much of the world reflect increasing CO2
globally and warming in cold areas. However, the strength of the response to both CO2 and …