Climate Change: Vegetation Diversity Monitoring
A special issue of Diversity (ISSN 1424-2818). This special issue belongs to the section "Biodiversity Loss & Dynamics".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 October 2024 | Viewed by 6515
Special Issue Editors
Interests: environmental sustainability; climate change; geospatial application; vegetation dynamics analysis; urban and coastal assessment
Interests: forest change; droughts and water availability; hydrologic modeling; water resources management; trends; GEE; TRMM products
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
This forthcoming Special Issue of Diversity focuses on Climate Change: Vegetation Diversity Monitoring, provides an understanding of the underlying synergies between climate change and vegetation diversity to ensure global earth-atmosphere system sustainability.
Climate change and vegetation conditions are interconnected and thus influence the functioning of the earth-atmosphere processes. Vegetation underscores ecosystem functioning and therefore, is a vital natural resource regulating climate change impacts. However, climatic factors coupled with human agency interferences have had significant impacts on the current condition and distribution of global vegetation with devastating impacts on livelihood formations, especially for vulnerable communities. Of concern, climate change has aggressively advanced multiple impacts on the vegetation and led to landscape transformations with numerous secondary resultant environmental degradations. Yet, vegetation diversity for centuries has been central to environmental conservation, ecosystem functioning and biodiversity sustainability, and micro-climatic modifications across landscapes. Therefore, vegetation diversity loss presents serious threats to humanity, ecosystem functioning and biodiversity among others. Accordingly, there is a need for Spatio-temporal assessment and monitoring of vegetation conditions under the current changing climate to ensure environmental and ecological diversity protection for sustainable development.
Consequently, the special issue on climate change: vegetation diversity monitoring is intended to capture different case studies across the globe to offer an understanding of the magnitude and scale of climate change impacts on vegetation and its diversity across different regions. Also advances in the modelling and assessment approaches will be highlighted in this special issue. In general, all these are critical to enabling us to understand how vegetation has and will respond to increasing temperatures, further variable rainfall, and rising atmospheric Carbon Dioxide among others to enable planners, conservationists, and policy-makers to design integrated and multidisciplinary approaches to mitigate and bolster adaptation for sustainable ecosystem functioning and human wellbeing.
This Special Issue’s thematic areas include but are not limited to those listed below:
- Climate change impacts on vegetation;
- Climate change impacts on vegetation diversity;
- Vegetation response to climate change;
- Drought impacts on vegetation cover;
- Flood impacts on vegetation;
- Extreme weather: climate-change-induced events’ impact on vegetation;
- Vegetation species change due to climate change;
- Vegetation diversity influence on climate change;
- Spatial modelling of the impact of climate change on vegetation.
Dr. Ahmed Mukalazi Kalumba
Prof. Dr. Celso Augusto Guimarães Santos
Dr. Manoranjan Mishra
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- climate change
- vegetation change/response/diversity
- vegetation stress
- vegetation health
- monitoring/assessment/modeling
- remote sensing
- droughts
- effects of extreme weather events
- vegetation dynamics
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