Remote Sensing of Climate-Vegetation Dynamics and Their Effects on Ecosystems II
A special issue of Remote Sensing (ISSN 2072-4292). This special issue belongs to the section "Biogeosciences Remote Sensing".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 15 July 2024 | Viewed by 812
Special Issue Editors
Interests: geoinformatics; land surface phenology; long-term ecological study; biogeochemistry
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Interests: plant and vegetation phenology; vegetation geography; global change and phenology; global change and plant geography
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Vegetation phenology plays an important role in regulating the water cycle, carbon cycle, productivity, etc., which are largely related to region-specific climatic and non-climatic factors. In the context of climate change, the dynamics of local regular climate and large-scale climatic variations, such as the El Niño-Southern Oscillation (ENSO), are expected to become more striking which may have substantial effects on vegetation phenology. In addition, climatic extremes such as storms, flash drought, tropical cyclones and sporadic events, as well as anthropogenic activities, have abruptly altered the development of vegetation across all scales, from regional to global. With the assistance of long-term in situ observations, PhenoCam monitoring networks and multisource remotely-sensed datasets, the variations in vegetation phenology and its associations with regular climate, climatic fluctuations or extremes can be potentially captured and disentangled. Additionally, attempts to understand the impacts of phenological shifts on vegetation structure and ecosystems are also of significance.
For this Special Issue, we invite papers that apply remote sensing and spatial technology to explore the variations in vegetation phenology in relation to climate. For example, the combination of field observations with remote sensing techniques across different scales, relationships between satellite-derived phenology (land surface phenology; LSP), and climate, including regional climate conditions and large-scale atmospheric anomalies, are potential issues. Studies on the effects of phenological variations in landscape on hydrological processes, water resources and biogeochemical cycles and on alterations in LSP along the land-cover gradient and projections of phenology across all scales are also welcome.
Related topics may include, but are not limited to, the following:
- The combination and data fusion of in situ plant phenological observation and remotely-sensed data across scales;
- Near-surface remote sensing, PhenoCam and data analysis in relation to climate and disturbances;
- LSP across various climate regions, vegetation types, landscapes and their controls;
- LSP along rural-to-urban gradient;
- Variations in LSP on evapotranspiration, storage, runoff, sediments or nutrients in watershed or large scales;
- LSP projections.
Dr. Chung-Te Chang
Prof. Dr. Junhu Dai
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- vegetation phenology
- regular climate
- climatic fluctuation
- disturbance
- phenocam
- multisource remotely sensed data
- time-series
- water resources
- productivity
- biogeochemical cycles
