As the largest river basin on Earth, the Amazon is of major importance to the world's climate and water resources. Over the past decades, advances in satellite‐based remote sensing …
Major land use and land cover changes (LULCC) have taken place in Brazil, including large scale conversion of forest to agriculture. LULCC alters surface-atmosphere interactions …
Urbanization is a primary cause of wetland loss in coastal metropolitan regions. Therefore, it challenges the preservation of biodiversity and the provision of key ecosystem services for …
A warmer atmosphere is able to hold more water which consequently intensifies the hydrological cycle. The projected increase in extreme precipitation has been associated with …
M Let, S Pal - Journal of Environmental Management, 2023 - Elsevier
Previous original research focused on wetland loss and finding out its drivers across different regional units of the world. A few reports also tried to account world's condition on …
North America is covered in 2.5 million km2 of wetlands, which is the remainder of an estimated 56% of wetlands lost since the 1700s. This loss has resulted in a decrease in …
Blue carbon ecosystems (BCE) include mangrove forests, tidal marshes, and seagrass meadows, all of which are currently under threat, putting their contribution to mitigating …
K Jensen, K McDonald, E Podest… - Remote Sensing, 2018 - mdpi.com
Despite the growing number of remote-sensing products from satellite sensors, mapping of the combined spatial distribution and temporal variability of inundation in tropical wetlands …
Tropical ecosystems play an important role in the environment. They provide multiple ecosystem services, such as carbon capture and sequestration, food supply, and climate …