Climate change is altering patterns of weather and water around the world, causing water shortages and droughts in some areas. Studying the forest ecosystems, its water retention service in particular, can help to solve the insufficiency of water. The a...
10 27, 2021Transition in energy and transportation sectors will increase the demand for minerals as emerging technologies (solar, wind, and electric vehicles) require more minerals than fossil based technologies.
09 24, 2021The fraction of absorbed photosynthetically active radiation (FAPAR) defines the fraction of photosynthetically active radiation (PAR) absorbed by the green parts of the canopy, and thus expresses the canopy’s energy absorption capacity. FAPAR has been...
08 23, 2021Food loss and waste (FLW) has become a worldwide concern in recent years and is widely identified as a key barrier to food security, human health, and environmental sustainability.
07 20, 2021Ecosystem services (ESs) are the ecological characteristics, functions, or processes that contribute to human wellbeing. According to Millennium Ecosystem Assessment (2005), approximately 60% of the global ESs are either degraded or used in an unsustain...
06 23, 2021Glacial melting due to global warming is likely the cause of a shift in the movement of the poles that occurred in the 1990s.
04 30, 2021The responses of the Date of autumn Foliar Senescence (DFS) to climate change have focused for a better interpretation of carbon uptake.Prof. WU Chaoyang's team at IGSNRR explored the changes of DFS in autumn with climate change (i.e. decline in winds) ...
04 23, 2021Knowledge of the temperature sensitivity of terrestrial ecosystem respiration (Q10) is a prerequisite for quantifying climate–carbon cycle feedback. Warming-induced carbon emission through terrestrial ecosystem respiration (Re) is likely getting strong...
04 13, 2021Although remote sensing provides useful data products for global monitoring of air pollutants, the extensive non-random missingness due to cloud contamination or high surface reflectance severely limits their applicability. As a critical traffic-related...
01 11, 2021The fraction of photosynthetically active radiation (PAR) absorbed by green elements (fAPAR) is an essential climate variable in quantifying canopy absorbed PAR and gross and net primary production. Continuous and accurate measurement of the fAPAR is th...
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