This book focuses on grassland ecosystem evaluation including vegetation coverage, net primary productivity, carbon sink accounting, and grassland degradation evaluation based on mutual data resource, ecosystem model simulation, remote sensing monitoring and driving mechanism exploration. It aims to provide a guide seeking to understand the overall situation of grassland in China in the context of global climate change and build a scenario for the driving force quantitative evaluation. It will be an essential reference to the terrestrial ecosystem carbon cycle and degraded grassland ecological restoration engineer implementation. Chapters are carefully developed to cover (1) situation of grassland in China; (2) spatial-temporal of grassland coverage in China;(3) net primary productivity evaluation; (4) carbon sink/source accounting and its carbon-hydrology effect;(5) grassland landscape pattern; (6) grassland degradation evaluation based on remote sensing;(7) Grassland degradation restoration and constructing green ecological protective screen.

The new scenario and driving mechanism evaluation model make this book a valuable read for researcher of land ecosystem carbon cycle, ecosytem degradation remoete sensing evalution as well as organizations engaged in eco-restoration practices.

Autorentext
Dr Wei Zhou is a professor works at Chongqing Jiaotong University and Southwest University, and she is the post-doctoral at Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences. She earned a Ph.D. in Nanjing University. Her research focuses on carbon cycle of land ecosystem, monitoring and evaluation of land degradation, Geospatial Data Fusion, ecological environmental remote sensing, and hyperspectral remote sensing of heavy metals in soil. Her main accomplishments include published more than 40 scientific research papers, including more than 10 SCI papers. She has presided one National Natural Science Fund and two provincial and ministerial scientific research projects. As the main participant, she presided over 10 scientific research projects. Act as an expert in reviewing manuscripts in the following Top Journals of GEODERMACATENALAND DEGRADATION, etc. Her main research interests are ecological environmental remote sensing monitoring, physical geography, 3S technology implementation. Dr Jianlong Li is a professor works at Nanjing University, doctoral supervisor, and the Head of Department of Ecology Engineering of School of Life Science. He earned a Ph.D. in Ecosystem in Lanzhou University. His research focuses on the carbon cycle of land ecosystem, grassland ecosystem evaluation and environmental pollution evaluation. His main accomplishments include published more than 100 papers, including more than 50 SCI paper. Act as Members of the Council of the Grassland Ecology Society in China and the Council of Ecology; and act as a Reviewers of Top Periodicals at Home and Abroad. He has presided more than 10 Projects, including the National Key Basic Research Program (973), the National High-tech Research and Development Program (863) and Natural Science Fund.

Dr Tianxiang Yue is a Chief Professor at State Key Laboratory of Resources and Environmental Information System, Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, doctoral supervisor, and acts as Director of Eco-environment Information Office. Winner of National Outstanding Youth Fund. He earned a Ph.D. in Lanzhou University. He has presided more than 20 Projects, including the National Key Basic Research Program (973), the National Science and Technology Support Program, the National High-tech Research and Development Program (863), the International Science and Technology Cooperation Program, the National Natural Science Foundation Program National Natural Science Fund and National Major Basic Research Program. He published more than 100 scientific research papers, including more than 60 SCI papers He Acts an Editorial Board of Important Periodicals at Home and Abroad including Science China, Transactions in GIS, Journal of Geographical Sciences, and Journal of Ecology. His main research interests are Modeling of Earth Surface System, Eco-environmental Informatics.

Inhalt
Research progress of the grassland carbon cycle and grassland degradation in China.- Grassland coverage inter-annual variations and its coupling relation with hydrothermal factors in China.- Spatial-temporary dynamics of grassland net primary productivity in China and its response to climate factors.- Inter-annual variation in grassland net ecosystem productivity and its coupling relation to climatic factors in China.- The variation of landscape and NPP of main pastoral grasslands in China.- Grassland degradation remote sensing monitoring and driving factors quantitative assessment in China from 1982 to 2010.- Grassland degradation restoration and constructing green ecological protective screen.