The exceptional value of intact forest ecosystems

JEM Watson, T Evans, O Venter, B Williams… - Nature ecology & …, 2018 - nature.com
As the terrestrial human footprint continues to expand, the amount of native forest that is free
from significant damaging human activities is in precipitous decline. There is emerging …

A review of remote sensing based actual evapotranspiration estimation

K Zhang, JS Kimball… - Wiley interdisciplinary …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Evapotranspiration is a major component of the global water cycle and provides a critical
nexus between terrestrial water, carbon and surface energy exchanges. Evapotranspiration …

Climate change, phenology, and phenological control of vegetation feedbacks to the climate system

AD Richardson, TF Keenan, M Migliavacca… - Agricultural and Forest …, 2013 - Elsevier
Vegetation phenology is highly sensitive to climate change. Phenology also controls many
feedbacks of vegetation to the climate system by influencing the seasonality of albedo …

A review of global terrestrial evapotranspiration: Observation, modeling, climatology, and climatic variability

K Wang, RE Dickinson - Reviews of Geophysics, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
This review surveys the basic theories, observational methods, satellite algorithms, and land
surface models for terrestrial evapotranspiration, E (or λE, ie, latent heat flux), including a …

Investigating soil moisture–climate interactions in a changing climate: A review

SI Seneviratne, T Corti, EL Davin, M Hirschi… - Earth-Science …, 2010 - Elsevier
Soil moisture is a key variable of the climate system. It constrains plant transpiration and
photosynthesis in several regions of the world, with consequent impacts on the water …

[图书][B] The normalized difference vegetation index

N Pettorelli - 2013 - books.google.com
There has been a recent surge of interest in remote sensing and its use in ecology and
conservation but this is the first book to focus explicitly on the NDVI (Normalised Difference …

Land management and land-cover change have impacts of similar magnitude on surface temperature

S Luyssaert, M Jammet, PC Stoy, S Estel… - Nature Climate …, 2014 - nature.com
Anthropogenic changes to land cover (LCC) remain common, but continuing land scarcity
promotes the widespread intensification of land management changes (LMC) to better …

A global 1‐km consensus land‐cover product for biodiversity and ecosystem modelling

MN Tuanmu, W Jetz - Global Ecology and Biogeography, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Aim For many applications in biodiversity and ecology, existing remote sensing‐derived
land‐cover products have limitations due to among‐product inconsistency and their typically …

Comparison of different vegetation indices for the remote assessment of green leaf area index of crops

A Viña, AA Gitelson, AL Nguy-Robertson… - Remote sensing of …, 2011 - Elsevier
Many algorithms have been developed for the remote estimation of biophysical
characteristics of vegetation, in terms of combinations of spectral bands, derivatives of …

Influence of spring and autumn phenological transitions on forest ecosystem productivity

AD Richardson, T Andy Black… - … of the Royal …, 2010 - royalsocietypublishing.org
We use eddy covariance measurements of net ecosystem productivity (NEP) from 21
FLUXNET sites (153 site-years of data) to investigate relationships between phenology and …