Mario Eugenio Sello^1,*, Rafael Adrian Maddio¹, Santiago Ignacio Hurtado¹, Daniel Alejandro Castillo¹, Daiana Vanesa Perri¹, Octavio Agusto Bruzzone², Marcos Horacio Easdale¹

Phyton-International Journal of Experimental Botany, Vol.93, No.9, pp. 2479-2498, 2024, DOI:10.32604/phyton.2024.053168 - 30 September 2024

Abstract Adaptive management in arid and semi-arid regions of Patagonia, Argentina, requires a thorough understanding of vegetative dynamics, which can be obtained via rangeland assessment and monitoring. These practices are essential for decision-making to prevent environmental degradation, especially in the light of drought aggravated by climate change. In turn, most methods used to evaluate rangelands focus on data obtained from field measurements and vegetation classifications based on remote sensing data. One of the most frequent problems is that field-based rangeland assessments, based on field measurements, turn out to be expensive because they require high efforts in… More >

Xin Yao¹, Junyu Zhu¹, Hong Zeng², Wenzheng Yu^1,*, Hanxiaoya Zhang³

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.73, No.1, pp. 1915-1926, 2022, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2022.026777 - 18 May 2022

Abstract Accumulated temperature, which is now widely used in agronomy, is an important ecological factor to the growth of plants, but few relative studies have been found on the vegetation area of floodplain grasslands in Poyang Lake. This research used the classification and regression tree (CART) to classify normalized vegetation area index derived from MODIS LAI (Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer Leaf Area Index) images from 2008 to 2014, according to different climate indexes, such as mean daily air temperature (n), accumulated temperature (jw), daily maximum temperature (g), daily minimum temperature (d), accumulative precipitation (j), water level… More >