Disproportionate contributions of land cover and changes to ecosystem functions in Kazakhstan and Mongolia.

ABSTRACT: Land use and land cover change (LULCC) have profoundly altered land surface properties and ecosystem functions, including carbon and water production. While mapping these changes from local to global scales has become more achievable due to advancements in earth observations and remote sensing, linking land cover changes to ecosystem functions remains challenging, especially at regional scale. Our study attempts to fill this gap by employing a computationally efficient method and two types of widely used high-resolution satellite images. We first investigated the contribution of landscape composition to ecosystem function by examining how land cover and proportion affected gross primary production (GPP) and evapotranspiration (ET) at six macro-landscapes in Mongolia and Kazakhstan. We hypo

SUBMITTER: Yuan J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11413002 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature