Yan et al. (2025): Afforestation boosted gross primary productivity of China: evidence from remote sensing
Wei Yan, Hesong Wang, Chao Jiang, Osbert Jianxin Sun, Jianmin Chu, Anzhi Zhang IN: Journal of Forestry Research, 36, https://doi.org/10.1007/s11676-025-01828-9
Over recent decades, China has launched a series of long-running and large-scale ambitious forestation projects. However, there is still a lack of year-to-year evaluation on the effects of afforestation on carbon sequestration. Satellite remote sensing provides continuous observations of vegetation dynamics and land use and land cover change, is becoming a practical tool to evaluate the changes of vegetation productivity driven by afforestation. Here, a spatially-explicit analysis was conducted by combining Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) land cover and three up-to-date remote sensing gross primary productivity (GPP) datasets of China.