Soil and vegetation water content identify the main terrestrial ecosystem changes.

ABSTRACT: Environmental change is a consequence of many interrelated factors. How vegetation responds to natural and human activity still needs to be well established, quantified and understood. Recent satellite missions providing hydrologic and ecological indicators enable better monitoring of Earth system changes, yet there is no automatic way to address this issue directly from observations. Here, we develop an observation-based methodology to capture evidence of changes in global terrestrial ecosystems and attribute these changes to natural or anthropogenic activity. We use the longest time record of global microwave L-band soil moisture and vegetation optical depth as satellite data and build spatially explicit maps of change in soil and vegetation water content and biomass reflecting large eco

SUBMITTER: Bueso D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10089587 | biostudies-literature | 2023 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature