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Detection and Attribution of Changes in Land Surface Sensitive Components

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Detection and attribution are essential to understand the roles of natural and anthropogenic factors in changes of land surface sensitive components such as terrestrial ecosystem, water resources and crop yield. In this chapter, we review the research progress on detection and attribution using the literature statistics and analyses based on 240 international SCI/SSCI journals in the related fields such as geographical sciences, ecology, atmospheric science, hydrology and agriculture. We also review the research progress on detection and attribution in China. We conclude that Chinese scientists have had great progresses on detection and attribution in the past three decades; nevertheless more novel studies are needed to obtain high quality observation data on land surface dynamics and develop human and natural systems coupled models.

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    Fulu Tao, Qiuhong Tang & Wenjiao Shi

  2. College of Urban and Environmental Sciences, Peking University, Beijing, China

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Tao, F., Piao, S., Tang, Q., Shi, W. (2017). Detection and Attribution of Changes in Land Surface Sensitive Components. In: The Geographical Sciences During 1986—2015. Springer Geography. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-1884-8_24

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