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Rapid greening response of China's 2020 spring vegetation to COVID-19 restrictions: Implications for climate change.
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- Harnessing Socio-Spatial Dynamics for Pandemic Resilience: Evidence from Kozhikode, India.One health (Amsterdam, Netherlands) · 2025Article
- Human activity's impact on urban vegetation in China during the COVID-19 lockdown: An atypical anthropogenic disturbance.iScience · 2025Article
- The weekly cycle of photosynthesis in Europe reveals the negative impact of particulate pollution on ecosystem productivity.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2023Article
- A machine learning-based study on the impact of COVID-19 on three kinds of pollution in Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region.The Science of the total environment · 2023Article
- Improved air quality leads to enhanced vegetation growth during the COVID-19 lockdown in India.Applied geography (Sevenoaks, England) · 2023Article
- A new method for spatio-temporal transmission prediction of COVID-19.Chaos, solitons, and fractals · 2023Article
- What Factors Dominate the Change of PMInternational journal of environmental research and public health · 2023Article
- Changes in aerosol loading before, during and after the COVID-19 pandemic outbreak in China: Effects of anthropogenic and natural aerosol.The Science of the total environment · 2023Article
- Climate change and COVID-19: Interdisciplinary perspectives from two global crises.The Science of the total environment · 2022Review
- Vegetation Dynamics in Response to Climate Change and Human Activities in a Typical Alpine Region in the Tibetan Plateau.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Article
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Abstract
The 2019 novel coronavirus pandemic (COVID-19) negatively affected global public health and socioeconomic development. Lockdowns and travel restrictions to contain COVID-19 resulted in reduced human activity and decreased anthropogenic emissions. However, the secondary effects of these restrictions on the biophysical environment are uncertain. Using remotely sensed big data, we investigated how lockdowns and traffic restrictions affected China's spring vegetation in 2020. Our analyses show that travel decreased by 58% in the first 18 days following implementation of the restrictions across China. Subsequently, atmospheric optical clarity increased and radiation levels on the vegetation canopy were augmented. Furthermore, the spring of 2020 arrived 8.4 days earlier and vegetation 17.45% greener compared to 2015-2019. Reduced human activity resulting from COVID-19 restrictions contributed to a brighter, earlier, and greener 2020 spring season in China. This study shows that short-term changes in human activity can have a relatively rapid ecological impact at the regional scale.
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