Land Ecosystems and Global Ecodynamics: The Role of Remote Sensing

Dear Colleagues,

The growing global population size and the associated increasing forcing of human activity on the environment and ecosystems have become not only the main threat to the further sustainable development of our civilization in the context of the global ecosystem, but also reflect a dangerous disruption to normal functioning of life support systems. In relation to the key role of ecosystems in the processes of natural regulation of environmental properties, the analysis of the available data on the global dynamics of ecosystems (especially those that are mainly based on remote sensing) and an assessment of potential trends are of paramount importance. Important information on these problems can be found, in particular, in recent publications, among which the most informative is the report prepared by the World Resources Institute (USA) supported by the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP) and the World Bank. This report highlights the close relationship between global ecosystems and the world's population—a coexistence, unique and extremely sensitive to external forcings. These will be extensively documented by this Special Issue in the form of a concept of biotic regulation of the environment. The papers accepted will contain an analysis of the key aspects of global change in terms of its operation and/or global life support systems and requirements for adequate ecological monitoring.

Sub-topics could be the following:

• Global dynamics of land ecosystems
• Remote sensing of land ecosystems
• Forest ecosystems and the greenhouse effect
• Primary production and carbon dioxide
• The atmosphere–land carbon exchange
• Problems of biocenology in connection with the greenhouse effect
• A systems approach in biocenology
• Models in biocenology
• Modelling the forest ecosystems
• Modelling the energy fluxes in the atmosphere/plant/soil
• Succession in the tundra–taiga system
• Global model of the carbon cycle

Prof. Dr. Costas Varotsos
Prof. Dr. Yuri Mazei
Prof. Dr. Yong Xue
Guest Editors

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• remote sensing
• land ecosystems
• greenhouse effect
• carbon dioxide cycle
• biocenology
• modelling
• energy fluxes
• water cycle
• tundra–taiga system