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 …

Remote sensing of solar-induced chlorophyll fluorescence (SIF) in vegetation: 50 years of progress

GH Mohammed, R Colombo, EM Middleton… - Remote sensing of …, 2019 - Elsevier
Remote sensing of solar-induced chlorophyll fluorescence (SIF) is a rapidly advancing front
in terrestrial vegetation science, with emerging capability in space-based methodologies …

[HTML][HTML] Soil moisture dominates dryness stress on ecosystem production globally

L Liu, L Gudmundsson, M Hauser, D Qin, S Li… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Dryness stress can limit vegetation growth and is often characterized by low soil moisture
(SM) and high atmospheric water demand (vapor pressure deficit, VPD). However, the …

Chlorophyll a fluorescence illuminates a path connecting plant molecular biology to Earth-system science

A Porcar-Castell, Z Malenovský, T Magney… - Nature plants, 2021 - nature.com
For decades, the dynamic nature of chlorophyll a fluorescence (ChlaF) has provided insight
into the biophysics and ecophysiology of the light reactions of photosynthesis from the …

Large influence of soil moisture on long-term terrestrial carbon uptake

JK Green, SI Seneviratne, AM Berg, KL Findell… - Nature, 2019 - nature.com
Although the terrestrial biosphere absorbs about 25 per cent of anthropogenic carbon
dioxide (CO2) emissions, the rate of land carbon uptake remains highly uncertain, leading to …

[HTML][HTML] Scaling carbon fluxes from eddy covariance sites to globe: synthesis and evaluation of the FLUXCOM approach

M Jung, C Schwalm, M Migliavacca, S Walther… - …, 2020 - bg.copernicus.org
FLUXNET comprises globally distributed eddy-covariance-based estimates of carbon fluxes
between the biosphere and the atmosphere. Since eddy covariance flux towers have a …

Multi-sensor remote sensing for drought characterization: current status, opportunities and a roadmap for the future

W Jiao, L Wang, MF McCabe - Remote Sensing of Environment, 2021 - Elsevier
Satellite based remote sensing offers one of the few approaches able to monitor the spatial
and temporal development of regional to continental scale droughts. A unique element of …

Remote sensing of the terrestrial carbon cycle: A review of advances over 50 years

J Xiao, F Chevallier, C Gomez, L Guanter… - Remote Sensing of …, 2019 - Elsevier
Quantifying ecosystem carbon fluxes and stocks is essential for better understanding the
global carbon cycle and improving projections of the carbon-climate feedbacks. Remote …

Effects and contributions of meteorological drought on agricultural drought under different climatic zones and vegetation types in Northwest China

S Cao, L Zhang, Y He, Y Zhang, Y Chen, S Yao… - Science of the Total …, 2022 - Elsevier
Meteorological drought is one of the driving forces behind agricultural drought. The
response of agricultural drought to meteorological drought remains poorly understood under …

Air temperature optima of vegetation productivity across global biomes

M Huang, S Piao, P Ciais, J Peñuelas, X Wang… - Nature ecology & …, 2019 - nature.com
The global distribution of the optimum air temperature for ecosystem-level gross primary
productivity (T opt eco) is poorly understood, despite its importance for ecosystem carbon …