Global monitoring of the vegetation dynamics from the Vegetation Optical Depth (VOD): A review

F Frappart, JP Wigneron, X Li, X Liu, A Al-Yaari, L Fan… - Remote Sensing, 2020 - mdpi.com
Vegetation is a key element in the energy, water and carbon balances over the land
surfaces and is strongly impacted by climate change and anthropogenic effects. Remotely …

Drought, heat, and the carbon cycle: a review

S Sippel, M Reichstein, X Ma, MD Mahecha… - Current Climate Change …, 2018 - Springer
Abstract Purpose of the Review Weather and climate extremes substantially affect global-
and regional-scale carbon (C) cycling, and thus spatially or temporally extended climatic …

Watersheds may not recover from drought

TJ Peterson, M Saft, MC Peel, A John - Science, 2021 - science.org
The Millennium Drought (southeastern Australia) provided a natural experiment to challenge
the assumption that watershed streamflow always recovers from drought. Seven years after …

[HTML][HTML] Increasing compound warm spells and droughts in the Mediterranean Basin

J Vogel, E Paton, V Aich, A Bronstert - Weather and Climate Extremes, 2021 - Elsevier
The co-occurrence of warm spells and droughts can lead to detrimental socio-economic and
ecological impacts, largely surpassing the impacts of either warm spells or droughts alone …

Enhanced peak growth of global vegetation and its key mechanisms

K Huang, J Xia, Y Wang, A Ahlström, J Chen… - Nature ecology & …, 2018 - nature.com
The annual peak growth of vegetation is critical in characterizing the capacity of terrestrial
ecosystem productivity and shaping the seasonality of atmospheric CO2 concentrations. The …

Drought timing influences the legacy of tree growth recovery

M Huang, X Wang, TF Keenan… - Global Change Biology, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Whether and how the timing of extreme events affects the direction and magnitude of legacy
effects on tree growth is poorly understood. In this study, we use a global database of Ring …

Drought trigger thresholds for different levels of vegetation loss in China and their dynamics

W Guo, S Huang, Q Huang, G Leng, Z Mu, Z Han… - Agricultural and Forest …, 2023 - Elsevier
Frequent meteorological droughts can negatively impact terrestrial ecosystems by
controlling the opening and closing of vegetation stomatal and altering vegetation structure …

CO2 exchange and evapotranspiration across dryland ecosystems of southwestern North America

JA Biederman, RL Scott, TW Bell… - Global Change …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Global‐scale studies suggest that dryland ecosystems dominate an increasing trend in the
magnitude and interannual variability of the land CO 2 sink. However, such analyses are …

Long-term vegetation phenology changes and responses to preseason temperature and precipitation in Northern China

R Zhang, J Qi, S Leng, Q Wang - Remote Sensing, 2022 - mdpi.com
Due to the complex coupling between phenology and climatic factors, the influence
mechanism of climate, especially preseason temperature and preseason precipitation, on …

Drought risk of global terrestrial gross primary productivity over the last 40 years detected by a remote sensing‐driven process model

Q He, W Ju, S Dai, W He, L Song… - Journal of …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Gross primary productivity (GPP) is the largest flux in the global terrestrial carbon cycle.
Drought has significantly impacted global terrestrial GPP in recent decades, and has been …