Ecosystem Changes in Tibetan and Other Alpine Regions from Earth Observation
A special issue of Remote Sensing (ISSN 2072-4292). This special issue belongs to the section "Remote Sensing in Agriculture and Vegetation".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 June 2022) | Viewed by 20455
Special Issue Editors
Interests: algorithm development; time-series remote sensing; vegetation phenology
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Interests: plant phenology; climate change ecology; vegetation remote sensing; alpine ecosystem
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Dear Colleagues,
During the past few decades, climate change has substantially modified the structure, function, and service of various ecosystems, particularly in alpine regions where vegetation is sensitive to climate warming, having had a wide range of effects on land surface processes, with far-reaching ecological and climatical influences. Increasing investigations based on Earth observations focus on land surface changes in alpine ecosystems, such as grassland coverage, land surface vegetation phenology, vegetation biomass (gross primary productivity), and river conservation, regulated by intensive anthropogenic activities, e.g., grazing, engineering and urbanization. Better understanding these changing processes and underlying causes could improve our ability to predict future changes and manage alpine ecosystems in response to the projected climate warming. Currently, governments have taken part in activities regarding this aspect, such as the 2nd Scientific Expedition to the Qinghai–Tibet Plateau organized by the Chinese government.
In this context, a Special Issue entitled “Ecosystem Changes in Tibetan and Other Alpine Regions from Earth Observation” is being planned in the Remote Sensing journal. Research or review articles regarding observations and attributions of ecosystem changes and their impacts on ecosystem services, land surface and climate processes and land–atmosphere interactions are welcome. It should be noted that remote sensing data (satellite, drone or remote sensing instruments in field measurements) should be one of the main used data.
We look forward to receiving your contributions.
Dr. Ruyin Cao
Prof. Dr. Miaogen Shen
Prof. Dr. Bin Fu
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- alpine environment
- alpine vegetation
- anthropogenic activity
- climate change
- ecosystem structure and function
- land surface processes
- Tibetan plateau
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