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 …

Climate change effects on biodiversity, ecosystems, ecosystem services, and natural resource management in the United States

SR Weiskopf, MA Rubenstein, LG Crozier… - Science of the Total …, 2020‏ - Elsevier
Climate change is a pervasive and growing global threat to biodiversity and ecosystems.
Here, we present the most up-to-date assessment of climate change impacts on biodiversity …

Direct and indirect impacts of urbanization on vegetation growth across the world's cities

L Zhang, L Yang, CM Zohner, TW Crowther, M Li… - Science …, 2022‏ - science.org
Urban environments, regarded as “harbingers” of future global change, may exert positive or
negative impacts on urban vegetation growth. Because of limited ground-based …

Increased drought effects on the phenology of autumn leaf senescence

C Wu, J Peng, P Ciais, J Peñuelas, H Wang… - Nature Climate …, 2022‏ - nature.com
Global warming delays the autumn date of foliar senescence (DFS) in recent decades, with
positive implications for growing season length and therefore global carbon storage …

An earlier start of the thermal growing season enhances tree growth in cold humid areas but not in dry areas

S Gao, E Liang, R Liu, F Babst, JJ Camarero… - Nature ecology & …, 2022‏ - nature.com
Climatic warming alters the onset, duration and cessation of the vegetative season. While
previous studies have shown a tight link between thermal conditions and leaf phenology …

Plant phenology and global climate change: Current progresses and challenges

S Piao, Q Liu, A Chen, IA Janssens, Y Fu… - Global change …, 2019‏ - Wiley Online Library
Plant phenology, the annually recurring sequence of plant developmental stages, is
important for plant functioning and ecosystem services and their biophysical and …

Interconnecting global threats: climate change, biodiversity loss, and infectious diseases

A Pfenning-Butterworth, LB Buckley… - The Lancet Planetary …, 2024‏ - thelancet.com
The concurrent pressures of rising global temperatures, rates and incidence of species
decline, and emergence of infectious diseases represent an unprecedented planetary crisis …

Spring photosynthetic phenology of Chinese vegetation in response to climate change and its impact on net primary productivity

Y Xue, X Bai, C Zhao, Q Tan, Y Li, G Luo, L Wu… - Agricultural and Forest …, 2023‏ - Elsevier
In the context of global warming, the advancement of spring phenology in northern and
temperate regions due to increased temperatures has been widely reported. Early and …

Climate change and phenology

DW Inouye - Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Climate Change, 2022‏ - Wiley Online Library
Climate change is a defining element of the current ecological landscape, with
consequences ranging from global to local environments. One of the first indices of the …

The global significance of biodiversity science in China: An overview

X Mi, G Feng, Y Hu, J Zhang, L Chen… - National Science …, 2021‏ - academic.oup.com
Biodiversity science in China has seen rapid growth over recent decades, ranging from
baseline biodiversity studies to understanding the processes behind evolution across …