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Grassland-type ecosystem stability in China differs under the influence of drought and wet events
Ecological stability is a core issue in ecological research and holds significant implications for humanity. The increased frequency and intensity of...
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Map** of Agriculture Productivity Variability for the SAARC Nations in Response to Climate Change Scenario for the Year 2050
Agriculture productivity is often guided by prevailing climate and management interventions. The climatic variations over a region on a temporal...
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Greenhouse Gases and Energy Fluxes at Permafrost Zone
Energy, water, and greenhouse gas exchange in the permafrost zone play an important role in the regional and global climate system at multiple...
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Cracking “Open” Technology in Ecohydrology
In recent years, the adjective “open” has been applied to many aspects of scientific knowledge discovery and dissemination, including open-source...
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Estimation and analysis of the ratio of transpiration to evapotranspiration in forest ecosystems along the North-South Transect of East China
The ratio of transpiration to evapotranspiration (T/ET) is a key parameter for quantifying water use efficiency of ecosystems and understanding the...
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Analysis of Vegetation-Water Interactions: Application and Comparison of Maximum-Likelihood Estimation and Bayesian Inference
In environmental science, we often deal with complex systems, many processes and interactions with relatively little mechanistic understanding which...
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Effects of vegetation restoration on local microclimate on the Loess Plateau
With the implementation of the Grain for Green Project, vegetation cover has experienced great changes throughout the Loess Plateau (LP). These...
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Comparison of two remote sensing models for estimating evapotranspiration: algorithm evaluation and application in seasonally arid ecosystems in South Africa
Remote sensing tools are becoming increasingly important for providing spatial information on water use by different ecosystems. Despite significant...
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The 2012 Flash Drought Threatened US Midwest Agroecosystems
In the summer of 2012, the US Midwest, the most productive agricultural region in the world, experienced the most intense and widespread drought on...
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Actual evapotranspiration of subalpine meadows in the Qilian Mountains, Northwest China
As a main component in water balance, evapotranspiration (ET) is of great importance for water saving, especially in arid and semi-arid areas. In...
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Spatio-temporal simulation of the geopolitical environment system
Geographical circumstances are the fundamental background for all kinds of geopolitical events. The geopolitical environment system (GES) refers to a...
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Seasonal differences in climatic controls of vegetation growth in the Bei**g–Tian** Sand Source Region of China
Launched in 2002, the Beiing–Tian** Sand Source Control Project (BTSSCP) is an ecological restoration project intended to prevent desertification in...
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Ecohydrology
Ecohydrology is an interdisciplinary science between hydrology and ecology, which has rapidly developed during the last 30 years. Research theme...
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Construction and progress of Chinese terrestrial ecosystem carbon, nitrogen and water fluxes coordinated observation
Eddy Covariance technique (EC) achieves the direct measurement on ecosystem carbon, nitrogen and water fluxes, and it provides scientific data for...
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Detection and Attribution of Changes in Land Surface Sensitive Components
Detection and attribution are essential to understand the roles of natural and anthropogenic factors in changes of land surface sensitive components...
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Contributions of climate change and human activities to ET and GPP trends over North China Plain from 2000 to 2014
Quantifying the contributions of climate change and human activities to ecosystem evapotranspiration (ET) and gross primary productivity (GPP)...
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Sensitivity of near real-time MODIS gross primary productivity in terrestrial forest based on eddy covariance measurements
As an important product of Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS), MOD17A2 provides dramatic improvements in our ability to accurately...
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Shortwave Albedo
This chapter describes the algorithm, analysis, preliminary validation, and application of the GLASS albedo product. Unlike traditional remote...
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Green Leaf Area and Fraction of Photosynthetically Active Radiation Absorbed by Vegetation
Leaf Area Index (LAI), the area of leaves per unit ground area, and the Fraction of Photosynthetically Active Radiation (FPAR; 400–700 nm) absorbed...
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Indices of Vegetation Activity
In this chapter we explain satellite-based vegetation indices (VIs) as dynamic spectral measures of vegetation activity. VIs are among the most...