Publications

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*Qi Zhang, *Rajesh Bista, Richard E. Bilsborrow, Zhiqiang Zhang, Qingfeng Huang, Conghe Song. 2023. Understanding the mediating role of labor out-migration in household income generation and distribution under a reforestation policy in rural China. Journal of Environmental Management, 345, doi: 10.1016/j.jenvman.2023.118539.

Chen Meng, Caiyan Wu, Jiong Wu, Qi Zhang, Liang Xin, Junxiang Li, Dezhi Li, Conghe Song , 2023. Spatiotemporal changes of coastal land use land cover and its drivers in Shanghai, China between 1989 and 2015. Ocean & Coastal Management 244, 106802, doi: 10.1016/j.ocecoaman.2023.106802

*Chao Wang, Tamlin M Pavelsky, Ethan D Kyzivat, Fenix Garcia-Tigreros, Erika Podest, Fangfang Yao, Xiao Yang, Shuai Zhang, Conghe Song, Theodore Langhorst, Wayana Dolan, Martin R Kurek, Merritt E Harlan, Laurence C Smith, David E Butman, Robert GM Spencer, Colin J Gleason, Kimberly P Wickland, Robert G Striegl, Daniel L Peters. 2023. Quantification of wetland vegetation communities features with airborne AVIRIS-NG, UAVSAR, and UAV LiDAR data in Peace-Athabasca Delta. Remote Sensing of Environment, 294, doi: 10.1016/j.rse.2023.113646.

Dingjie Zhao, Mingqi Sun, Yawen Xue, Qimeng Yang, Baohua Liu, Baoquan Jia, Conghe Song, Shouhong Zhang, Zhiqiang Zhang. 2023. Spatial variations of plant species diversity in urban soil seed banks in Beijing, China: implications for plant regeneration and succession. Urban Forestry and Urban Greening, doi: 10.1016/j.ufug.2023.128012.

Jiong Wu, Caiyan Wu, *Qi Zhang, Minghao Zhuang, Huirong Xiao, Hui Wu, Linke Ouyang, Yuhan Liu, Chen Meng, Conghe Song, Dagmar Haase, Junxiang Li. 2023. Spatiotemporal Evolution of Urban Agglomeration and Its Impact on Landscape Patterns in the Pearl River Delta, China. Remote Sensing, 15(10), doi: 10.3390/rs15102520.

Xing Bi, Caiyan Wu, Yong Wang, Junxiang Li, Chunfang Wang, Amy Hahs, Suzanne Mavoa, Conghe Song, Charles Konrad, and Michael Emch. 2023. Changes in the associations between heatwaves and human mortality during two extreme hot summers in Shanghai, China. Sustainable Cities and Society, doi: 10.1016/j.scs.2023.104581.

Caiyan Wu, Cheng Li, Linke Ouyang, Huirong Xiao, Jiong Wu, Minghao Zhuang, Xing Bi, Junxiang Li, Chunfang Wang, Conghe Song, Tong Qiu, Dagmar Haase, Amy Hahs, and Maroš Finka. 2023. Spatiotemporal evolution of urbanization and its implications to urban planning of the megacity, Shanghai, China. Landscape Ecology, 38(4): 1105-1124.

*Qiaoli Wu, *Shaoyuan Chen, *Yulong Zhang, Conghe Song, Weimin Ju, Li Wang, and Jie Jiang. 2023. Improved Estimation of the Gross Primary Production of Europe by Considering the Spatial and Temporal Changes in Photosynthetic Capacity from 2001 to 2016. Remote Sensing, 15(5), 1172, doi: 10.3390/rs15051172.

*Rajesh Bista, *Sophia Graybill, *Qi Zhang, Richard E Bilsborrow, and Conghe Song, 2023. Influence of Rural Out-Migration on Household Participation in Community Forest Management? Evidence from the Middle Hills of Nepal. Sustainability. doi: 10.3390/su15032185.

Caiyan Wu, Cheng Li, Linke Ouyang, Huirong Xiao, Jiong Wu, Minghao Zhuang, Xing Bi, Junxiang Li, Chunfang Wang, Conghe Song , Tong Qiu, Dagmar Haase, Amy Hahs, Maroš Finka. 2022. Spatiotemporal evolution of urbanization and its implications to urban planning of the megacity, Shanghai, China. Landscape Ecology, doi: 10.1007/s10980-022-01578-7.

*Zhang, Q., Tao, S., Walsh, S. J., Chen, X., Bilsborrow, R. E., An. L. & Song, C. Agent-based modeling of the effects of conservation policies on social-ecological feedbacks between cropland abandonment and labor migration. Landscape Ecology, doi: 10.1007/s10980-022-01575-w.

*Bista, R. Song, C. 2022. Human-wildlife conflict in the community forestry landscape: a case study from two Middle Hill districts of Nepal. Human Dimensions of Wildlife, 27 (6): 554-570.

An, L., Song, C., *Zhang, Q., Bohnett, E. 2023. Conservation Effectiveness and Concurrent Green Initiatives. Taylor and Francis. ISBN 978-1-032-26867-5.

*Bista, R., Parajuli, R., Giri, K., Karki, R., Song, C. 2022. Impacts of COVID-19 Pandemic on the Livelihoods of Rural Households in the Community Forestry Landscape in the Middle Hills of Nepal. Trees, Forests and People, doi: 10.1016/j.tfp.2022.100312.

Wang, L., De Boeck, H. J., Chen, L., Song, C., Chen, Z, McNulty, S., and Zhang, Z. 2022. Urban warming increases the temperature sensitivity of spring vegetation phenology at 292 cities across China. Science of the Total Environment, 834, doi: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2022.155154.

Ouyang, L., Wu, C., Li, J., Liu, Y., Wang, M., Han, J. Song, C., Yu, Q. and Haase, D. 2022. Mapping Impervious Surface Using Phenology-Integrated and Fisher Transformed Linear Spectral Mixture Analysis. Remote Sensing, 14(7), 1673, doi:10.3390/rs14071673.

*Ehlers, D., Wang, C., Coulston, J., Zhang, Y., Pavelsky, T., Frankenberg, F., Woodccok, C. and Song, C. 2022. Mapping forest aboveground biomass using multisource remotely sensed data. Remote Sensing, 14(5), 1115, doi: 10.3390/rs14051115.

*Wang, C., Pavelsky, T. M., Yao, Y., Yang, X., Zhang, S., Chapman, B., Song, C., Sebastian, A., Frizzelle, B. and Frankenberg, E. 2022. Repeat-pass L-band UAVSAR images for flood extent mapping during Hurricane Florence. Water Resources Research, 58, doi: 10.1029/2021WR030606.

*Xia, H., Chen, Y., Song, C., Li, J., Quan, J. and Zhou, G. 2022. Analysis of surface urban heat island based on local climate zones via spatiotemporally enhanced land surface temperature. Remote Sensing of Environment, 273, doi: 10.1016/j.rse.2022.112972.

*Zhang, J., Y. Zhang, Sun, G. Song, C. , Li, J., Hao, L. and Liu, N. 2022. Climate variability masked greening effects on water yield in the Yangtze River Basin during 2001-2018. Water Resources Research, 58, e2021WR030382, doi: 10.1029/2021WR030382.

Bi, Xing, Wu, C., Wang, C., Wang, Y., Wang, X., Song, C., Li, J. and Fu, C. 2022. Impacts of air temperature and its extremes on human mortality in Shanghai, China. Urban Climate, doi: 10.1016/j.uclim.2021.101072.

*Zhang, J., Zhang, Y., Sun, G., Song, C., Dannenberg, M. P., Li, J., Liu, N., Zhang, K., Zhang, Q. and Hao, Lu. 2021. Vegetation greening weakened the capacity of water supply to China’s South-North Water Diversion Project. Hydrology and Earth Science Sciences, 25, 5623–5640, doi: 10.5194/hess-25-5623-2021.

*Bista, R. and Song, C., 2021. Human-wildlife conflict in the community forestry landscape: a case study from two Middle Hill districts of Nepal. Human Dimensions of Wildlife. doi: 10.1080/10871209.2021.1980158.

*Wu, Q., Song, C. , Song, J., Wang, J., Chen, S., Yang, L., Xiang, W., Zhao, Z., and Jiang, J. 2021. Effects of leaf age and canopy structure on gross ecosystem production in a subtropical evergreen Chinese fir forest. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, 310 (11), doi: 10.1016/j.agrformet.2021.108618.

Oldekop, J. A., Gabay, M. Humphreys, D., Kamoto, J. F. M., Mutta, D. N, Song, C., Timko, J., Rasmussen, L. V. and Stoian, D. 2021. A Framework for analysing contextual factors shaping forest-poverty dynamics. Forest Policy and Economics, doi:10.1016/j.forpol.2021.102591.

Onja H Razafindratsima, Judith FM Kamoto, Erin O Sills, Doris N Mutta, Conghe Song, Gillian Kabwe, Sarah E Castle, Patricia M Kristjanson, Casey M Ryan, Maria Brockhaus, Terry Sunderland. 2021. Reviewing the evidence on the roles of forests and tree-based systems in poverty dynamics. Forest Policy and Economics, Vol. 131, doi: 10.1016/j.forpol.2021.102576.

*Rajesh Bista, Qi Zhang, Rajan Parajuli, Rahul Karki, Bir Bahadur Khanal Chhetri, and Conghe Song 2021. Cropland Abandonment in the community forestry landscape in the Middle Hills of Nepal. Earth Interactions, doi: 10.1175/EI-D-21-0006.1.

*Yulong Zhang, Conghe Song, Taehee Hwang, Kimberly Novick, John W Coulston, James Vose, Matthew P Dannenberg, Christopher R Hakkenberg, Jiafu Mao, Curtis E Woodcock 2021. Land cover change-induced decline in terrestrial gross primary production over the conterminous United States from 2001 to 2016. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, Vol. 308, doi: 10.1016/j.agrformet.2021.108609.

*Ying Wang, Qi Zhang, Srikanta Sannigrahi, Qirui Li, Shiqi Tao, Richard Bilsborrow, Jiangfeng Li, Conghe Song. 2021. Understanding the Effects of China’s Agro-Environmental Policies on Rural Households’ Labor and Land Allocation with a Spatially Explicit Agent-Based Model. Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation, doi: 10.18564/jasss.4589.

*Ying Wang, Qi Zhang, Qirui Li, Jianying Wang, Srikanta Sannigrahi, Richard Bilsborrow, Sonoko D Bellingrath-Kimura, Jiangfeng Li, Conghe Song 2021. Role of social networks in building household livelihood resilience under payments for ecosystem services programs in a poor rural community in China. Journal of Rural Studies, doi: 10.1016/j.jrurstud.2021.05.017.

Wu, C., Li, J., Wang, C., Song, C., Haase, D., Breuste, J. and Finka, M. 2021. Estimating the cooling effect of pocket green space in high density urban areas in Shanghai, China. Frontiers in Environmental Science, doi: 10.3389/fenvs.2021.657969.

*Jiang, M., He, Y., Song, C., Pan, Y., Qiu, T. and Tian, S. 2021. Disaggregating climatic and anthropogenic influences on vegetation changes in Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region of China. Science of the Total Environment, doi: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2021.147574.

Dannenberg, M. P., Smith, W. K., Zhang, Y., Song, C., Huntzinger, D. N. and Moore, D. J. P. 2021. Large-scale reductions in terrestrial carbon uptake following central Pacific El Nino. Geophysical Research Letters, doi: 10.1029/2020GL092367.

Wu, J., , Song, C., Dubinsky, E. A. and Stewart, J. R. 2021. Tracking major sources of water contamination using machine learning. Frontiers in Microbiology, 11, doi: 10.3389/fmicb.2020.616692.

*Chen, S., Zhang, Y., *Wu, Qiaoli, Liu, S., Song, C., Xiao, J., Band, L. E. and Vose, J. M. 2021. Vegetation structural change and CO2 fertilization more than offset gross primary production decline caused by reduced solar radiation in China. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, doi: 10.1016/j.agrformet.2020.108207.

Onja H. Razafindratsima, Judith Kamoto, Erin Sills, Doris N. Mutta, Conghe Song, Terry Sunderland, Gillian Kabwe, Casey Ryan, Sarah E. Brown, Patricia M. Kristjanson, Maria Brockhaus, Patrice Bigombe Logo, Blaise-Pascal Ntirumenyerwa Mihigo, Symphorien Ongolo, Jianmin Xiao and Yue Zhao. 2020. Forest-Poverty Dynamics: Current State of Knowledge. In: Forests, Trees, and the Eradication of Poverty: Potential and Limitations-A Global Assessment Report (Daniel C. Miller, Stephanie Mansourian and Christoph Wildburger, Editors), pp 55-94. IUFRO World Series Vol. 39.

Mónica Gabay and Johan A. Oldekop, David Humphreys, Judith Kamoto, Doris N. Mutta, Nitin Rai, Conghe Song, Joleen Timko, Laura Vang Rasmussen, Jennifer Zavaleta Cheek, Dikshya Devkota and Dietmar Stoian. 2020. Contextual Factors Shaping Forest Poverty Dynamics. In: Forests, Trees, and the Eradication of Poverty: Potential and Limitations-A Global Assessment Report (Daniel C. Miller, Stephanie Mansourian and Christoph Wildburger, Editors), pp 95-124. IUFRO World Series Vol. 39.

Reem Hajjar and Peter Newton, Markus Ihalainen, Arun Agrawal and Mónica Gabay, Jennifer Alix-Garcia, Sarah E. Brown, James T. Erbaugh, Karl Hughes, Samuel Mawutor, Pablo Pacheco, George Schoneveld, Conghe Song, and Joleen Timko. 2020. Levers for Alleviating Poverty in Forests and Tree-Based Systems. In: Forests, Trees, and the Eradication of Poverty: Potential and Limitations-A Global Assessment Report (Daniel C. Miller, Stephanie Mansourian and Christoph Wildburger, Editors), pp 125-176. IUFRO World Series Vol. 39.

*Qiu, T., Song, C., and Li, J. 2020. Deriving annual double-season cropland phenology using Landsat imagery. Remote Sensing, 12(20), doi: 10.3390/rs12203275.

*Wang, Y., *Zhang, Q., Bilsborrow, R., Tao, S., Chen, X., Sullivan-Wiley, Huang, Q., Li, J. and Song, C. 2020. Effects of payments for ecosystem services programs in China on rural household labor allocation and land use: Identifying complex pathways. Land Use Policy, 99, doi: 10.1016/j.landusepol.2020.105024.

*Zhang, Q., *Wang, Y., Tao, S., Bilsborrow, R. E., *Tong, Q., *Liu, C., Sannigrahi, S., Li, Q. and Song, C. 2020.Divergent socioeconomic-ecological outcomes of China’s conversion of cropland to forest program in the subtropical mountainous area and the semi-arid Loess Plateau. Ecosystem Services, 45, doi: 10.1016/j.ecoser.2020.101167.

*Qiu, T., Song, C., Clark, J. S., Seyednasrollah, B., Rathnayaka, N. and Li, J. 2020. Understanding the continuous phenological development at daily time step with a Bayesian hierarchical space-time model: impacts of climate change and extreme weather events. Remote Sensing of Environment, 247, doi: 10.1016/j.rse.2020.111956.

Khodaee, M., Hwang, T., Kim, J., Norman, S. P., Robeson, S. M. and Song, C. 2020. Monitoring forest infestation and fire disturbance in the Southern Appalachian using a time series analysis of Landsat imagery. Remote Sensing, 12, doi:10.3390/rs12152412.

Wang, M, Junxiang Li, Shengjian Kuang, Yujuan He, Guojian Chen, Yue Huang, Conghe Song, Pippin Anderson, Damian Łowicki. 2020. Plant Diversity Along the Urban-Rural Gradient and Its Relationship with Urbanization Degree in Shanghai, China. Forests, 11(2), 171, doi:10.3390/f11020171.

*Dannenberg, Matthew P., Conghe Song, Erika K. Wise, Neil Pederson, Daniel A. Bishop, 2020. Delineating Environmental Stresses to Primary Production of U.S. Forests From Tree Rings: Effects of Climate Seasonality, Soil, and Topography. Journal of Geophysical Research, doi: 10.1029/2019JG005499.

Hwang, Taehee, Lawrence E. Band, Chelcy F. Miniat, James M. Vose, Jennifer D. Knoepp, Conghe Song , Paul V. Bolstad, 2020. Climate change may increase the drought stress of mesophytic trees downslope with ongoing forest mesophication under a history of fire suppression. Frontiers in Forests and Global Change, 3, 927.

Chen, Z., Zhang, Z., Chen, L., Cai, Y., Zhang, H., Lou, J. Xu, Z., Xu, H. and Song, C. 2020. Spare Pinus Tabuliformis stands have higher canopy transpiration than dense stands three decades after thinning. Forests, 11, 70; doi: 10.3390/f1010070.

*Qiu, T., Song, C. , *Zhang, Y., Liu, H. and Vose, J. M. 2020. Urbanization and climate change jointly shift land surface phenology in the northern mid-latitude large cities. Remote Sensing of Environment, doi: 10.1016/j.rse.2019.111477

Wu, C., Li, J., Wang, C., Song, C., Chen, Y., Finka, M. and Rosa, D. L. 2019. Understanding the relationship between urban blue infrastructure and land surface temperature. Science of the Total Environment, doi: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2019.133742

*Zhang, Y., Song, C., Band, L. E. and Sun, G. 2019. No proportional increase of terrestrial gross carbon sequestration from the greening Earth. Journal of Geophysical Research-Biogeosciences, doi: 10.2019/2018JG004917.

*Zhang, Y., Dannenberg, M. P., Hwang, T. and Song, C.. 2019. El Nino-Southern Oscillation-induced variability of terrestrial gross primary production during the satellite era. Journal of Geophysical Research-Biogeosciences, dos: 10.1029/2019JG005117.

Hakkenberg, C. R., Dannenberg, M. P., Song, C., Vinci, G. 2019. Automated continuous fields prediction from Landsat time series: Application to fractional impervious cover. IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters, doi: 10.1109/LGRS.2019.2915320.

*Zhang, Q., Bilsborrow, R. E., Song, C., Tao, S. and Huang, Q. 2019. Rural household income distribution and inequality in China: Effects of payment for ecosystem services policies and other factors. Ecological Economics, 160: 114-127.

*Wang, Y., Bilsborrow, R., *Zhang, Q., Li, J. and Song, C. 2019. Effects of payment for ecosystem services and agricultural subsidy programs on rural household land use decisions in China: synergy or trade-off? Land Use Policy, 81: 785-801.

Hakkenberg, C. R., Dannenberg, M. P., Song, C., and Ensor, K. B. 2019. Characterizing multi-decadal, annual land cover change dynamics in Houston, TX based on automated classification of Landsat imagery, International Journal of Remote Sensing, 40(2): 693-718, doi: 10.1080/01431161.2018.1516318.

Chen, X., *Zhang, Q., Peterson, N. and Song, C. 2019. Feedback effect of crop-raiding in payments for ecosystem services. Ambio, 48(7): 732-740, doi: 10.1007/s13280-018-1105-0.

*Zhang, Q., Bilsborrow, R., Song, C. , Huang, Q. 2018. Determinants of out-migration in rural China: Effects of payment for ecosystem services. Population and Environment, doi: 10.1007/s11111-018-0307-5.

Treacy, P., Jagger, P., Song, C., *Zhang, Q. and Bilsborrow, R. E., 2018. Impacts of China’s Granin for Green Program on Migration and Household Income. Environmental Management, doi: 10.1007/s00267-018-1047-0.

Dannenberg, M. P., Hakkenberg, C. R. and Song, C., 2018. A long-term, consistent land cover history of the southeastern United States. Photogrammetric Engineering and Remote Sensing, 84(9): 35-44. doi: 0.14358/PERS.84.9.485 (Early Career Award winning paper for Dr. Dannenberg from the Remote Sensing Specialty Group of American Association of Geographers; John I. Davidson President’s Award for Practical Papers, 2nd place).

*Wu, Q., Song, C., Song, J., Wang, J., Chen, S, and Yu, B. 2018. Impacts of leaf age on canopy spectral signature variation in evergreen Chinese fir forests. Remote Sensing, 10(2), 262, doi: 10.3390/rs10020262.

*Zhang, Q., Song, C., and Chen, X. 2018. Effects of China’s Payment for Ecosystem Services on Cropland Abandonment: A Case Study in Tiantangzhai Township, Anhui, China. Land Use Policy, 73: 239-248.

*Hakkenberg, C. R., Zhu, K., Peet, R. K. and Song, C.. 2018. Mapping multi-scale vascular plant richness in a forest landscape with integrated LiDAR and hyperspectral remote-sensing. Ecology, 99(2): 474-487.

*Hakkenberg, C.R., Peet, R.K., Urban, D.L. and, Song, C. 2018. Modeling plant composition community-continua in a Piedmont forest landscape with LiDAR and hyperspectral remote sensing. Ecological Applications, 28(1): 177-190, doi:10.1002/eap.1638.

Song, C., Bilsborrow, R., Jagger, P., *Zhang, Q., Chen, X. and Huang, Q. 2018. Rural household energy use and its determinants in China: How important are influences of payment for ecosystem services vs. other factors. Ecological Economics, 145: 148-159; doi:10.1016/j.ecolecon.2017.08.028 (paper highlighted by Nature Energy: http://www.nature.com/articles/s41560-017-0041-8).

*Zhang, Q., *Hakkenberg, C. R. and Song, C. 2018. Evaluating the Effectiveness of Forest Conservation Policies with Multi-temporal Remotely Sensed Imagery: A case study from Tiantangzhai Township, Anhui, China. In: Comprehensive Remote Sensing: Remote Sensing Applications for Societal Benefits, Walsh, S. J. (ed). Elsevier. DOI: 10.1016/B978-0-12-409548-9.10434-X.

*Qiu, T., Song, C. and Li, J. 2017. Impacts of urbanization on vegetation phenology over the past three decades in Shanghai, China. Remote Sensing, 9, 970; doi:10.3390/rs9090970.

Zhang, K., Song, C., *Zhang, Y., Dang, H., Cheng, X. and Zhang, Q. 2017. Global-scale patterns of nutrient density and partitioning in forests in relation to climate. Global Change Biology, DOI: 10.1111/gcb.13860.

*Dannenberg, M. P., *Hakkenberg, C. R. and Song, C. 2017. Automatic Adaptive Signature Generalization in R. DOI:10.17632/s7c3vfr84w.1. https://data.mendeley.com/datasets/s7c3vfr84w/1.

*Zhang, Y., Song, C., Band, L. E., Sun, G. and Li, J. 2017. Reanalysis of global terrestrial vegetation trends from MODIS products: browning or greening? Remote Sensing of Environment, 191:144-155.

*Ran, L., Pleim, J., Song, C., Band, L., Walker, J. T. and Binkowski, F. S. 2017. A Photosynthesis-based two-leaf canopy stomatal conductance model for meteorology and air quality modeling with WRF/CMAQ PX LSM. Journal of Geophysical Research-Atmosphere, 122, DOI: 10.1002/2016JD025583.

Zhang, K., Song, C., *Zhang, Y. and Zhang, Q. 2017. Natural Disasters and Economic Development Drive Forest Dynamics and Transition in China. Forest Policy and Economics, 76: 56-64. doi: 10.1016/j.forpol.2015.08.010.

*Hakkenberg, C. R., Song, C., Peet, R. K. and White, P. S. 2016. Forest Structure as a Predictor of Tree Species Diversity in the North Carolina Piedmont. Journal of Vegetation Science, dos: 10.1111/jvs.12451.

*Dannenberg, M. P., *Hakkenberg, C. R. and Song, C. 2016. Consistent classification of Landsat time series with an improved automatic adaptive signature generalization algorithm. Remote Sensing, 8, 691; doi:10.3390/rs8080691.

*Zhang, Y., Song, C., Sun, G., Band, L. E., McNulty, S., Noormets, A., and Zhang, Q. and Zhang, Z., 2016. Development of a coupled carbon and water model for estimating global gross primary productivity and evapotranspiration based on eddy flux and remote sensing data. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, 223: 116-131.

*Zhang, Y., Song, C., Sun, G., Band, L. E., Noormets, A., and Zhang, Q. 2015.  Understanding moisture stress on light-use efficiency across terrestrial ecosystems based on global flux and remote sensing data. Journal of Geophysical Research-Biogeosciences, 120, doi:10.1002/2015JG003023.

*Jones, C., Song, C. and Moody, A. 2015. Where’s Woolly? An Integrative Use of Remote Sensing to Improve Predictions of the Spatial Distribution of an Invasive Forest Pest the Hemlock Woolly Adelgid. Forest Ecology and  Management, 358: 222-229.

*Dannenberg, M. P., Song, C., Hwang, T. and Wise, E. K. 2015.  Empirical evidence of El Niño-Southern Oscillation influence on land surface phenology and productivity in the western United States. Remote Sensing of Environment, doi:10.1016/j.rse.2014.11.026.

Song, C., Chen J. M., Hwang, T., Gonsamo, A., Croft, H., Zhang, Q., *Dannenberg, M., *Zhang, Y., *Hakkenberg, C., Li, J. 2015. Ecological Characterization of Vegetation Using Multi-Sensor Remote Sensing in the Solar Reflective Spectrum. In: Remote Sensing Handbook II: Land Resources Monitoring, Modeling and Mapping with Remote Sensing, Thenkabail, P. S. (ed). Page 533-574. Taylor and Francis, ISBN: 978-1-4822-1795-7.

Cheng, X., Wei, B., Chen, G., Li, J., Song, C. 2014. The influence of park size and its surrounding urban landscape patterns on the park cooling effect. Journal of Urban Planning and Development, DOI: 10.1061/(ASCE)UP.1943-5444.0000256.

*Zhang, Y., Song, C., Zhang, K., Cheng, X., Band, L. E. and Zhang, Q. 2014. Effects of land use/land cover and climate changes on terrestrial net primary productivity in the Yangtze River Basin, China from 2001 to 2010. Journal of Geophysical Research-Biogeosciences, doi: 10.1002/ 2014JG002616.

Zhou, L., Tian, Y., Myneni, R. B., Ciais, P., Saatchi, S., Liu, Y. Y., Piao, S., Chen, H., Vermote, E. F., Song, C. and Hwang, T. 2014. Widespread decline of Congo rainforest greenness in the past decade. Nature, 509: 86-90, doi: 10.1038/nature13265 (selected as NEWS&VIEWS paper; Chambers, J.Q., Roberts, D.A. 2014. Ecology: Drought in the Congo Basin, Nature, 509, 36-37; NASA press release 14-117).

*Hwang, T., Band, L. E., Miniat, C. F., Song, C., Bolstad, P. V., Vose, J. M. and Love, J. P. 2014. Divergent phonological response to hydroclimate variability in forested mountain watersheds. Global Change Biology, doi:10.1111/gcb.12556.

Song, C., *Zhang, Y., Mei, Y., Liu, H., Zhang, Z., Zhang, Q., Zha, T., Zhang, K., Huang, C., Xu, X., Jagger, P., Chen, C., Bilsborrow, R. 2014. Forests Sustainability and China’s Sloping Land Conversion Program (SLCP): A Comparison among Three Sites in Anhui, Hubei and Shanxi. Forest Policy and Economics, 38: 161-167.

*Zhang, Y., Song, C., Zhang, K., Cheng, X. and Zhang, Q. 2014. Spatial-temporal variability of terrestrial vegetation productivity in the Yangtze River Basin during 2000-9. Journal of Plant Ecology, 7(1): 10-23. 

*Kim, Y., Band, L. E. and Song, C. 2014. The influence of forest re-growth on the stream discharge in the North Carolina Piedmont watersheds. Journal of the American Water Resources Association, 50(1): 57-73.

Song, C., *Dannenberg, M. P. and *Hwang, T. 2013. Optical Remote Sensing of Terrestrial Primary Productivity (invited progress report). Progress in Physical Geography, 37(6): 834-854.

Li, J., Li, C., Zhu, F., Song, C. and Wu, J. 2013. Spatiotemporal pattern of urbanization in Shanghai, China between 1989 and 2005. Landscape Ecology, 28(8): 1545-1565.

*Gray, J. and Song, C. 2013. Consistent classification of image time series with automatic adaptive signature generalization. Remote Sensing of Environment, 134: 333-341.

*Sexton, J. O., Urban, D. L., Donodue, M. J. and Song, C. 2013. Long-term land cover dynamics by multi-temporal classification across the Landsat-5 record. Remote Sensing of Environment, 128: 246-258.

Song, C. 2013. Optical remote sensing of forest leaf area index and biomass (invited progress report). Progress in Physical Geography, 37(1): 98-113.

*Alvarez, J., Allen, H. L., Albaugh, T. J., Stape, J. L., Bullock, B. P. and Song, C. 2013. Factors influencing the growth of radiate pine plantation in Chile. Forestry, 86: 13-16. DOI: 10.1093/forestry/cps072.

Gao, F., de Colstoun, E. B., Ma, R., Weng, Q., Masek, J. G., Chen, J. Pan, Y. and Song, C. 2012. Mapping impervious surface expansion using medium resolution satellite image time series: A case study in the Yangtze River Delta, China. International Journal of Remote Sensing, 33:24, 7609-7628.

*Gray, J. M. and Song, C.  2012. Mapping leaf area index using spatial, spectral and temporal information from multiple sensors. Remote Sensing of Environment, 119: 173-183.

Li, J., Song, C., Cao, L., Zhu, F. Meng, X., Wu, J. 2011. Impacts of landscape structure on surface urban heat islands: A Case Study of Shanghai, China. Remote Sensing of Environment, 115: 3249-3263.

*Hwang, T., Song, C. Paul V. Bolstad, and Lawrence E. Band, 2011. Downscaling real-time vegetation dynamics by fusing multi-temporal MODIS Landsat NDVI in topographically complex terrain. Remote Sensing of Environment, 115: 2499-2512.

*Hwang, T.,  Song, C., Vose, J. M. and Band, L. E. 2011. Topography-mediated controls on local vegetation phenology estimated from MODIS vegetation index. Landscape Ecology, 26(4): 541-556.

Song, C., *Gray, J. M. and Gao, F. 2011. Remote Sensing of Vegetation with Landsat Imagery. In Advances in Environmental Remote Sensing, Weng, Q. (ed). CRC Press, Taylor and Francis Group. ISBN-13: 978-1-4200-9175-5, pp 3-29.

Song, C., White, B. L., *Heumann, B. W. 2011. Hyperspectral Remote Sensing of Salinity Stress on Red (Rhizophora mangle) and White (Laguncularia racemosa) Mangroves on Galapagos Islands. Remote Sensing Letters, 2(3): 221-230.

Song, C., Dickinson, M. B., *Su, L., *Zhang, S. and Yaussy, D. 2010. Estimating Average Tree Crown Size Using Spatial Information from Ikonos and QuickBird Images:  Across-Sensor and Across-Site Comparisons. Remote Sensing of Environment, 114: 1099-1107.

Song, C. and Zhang, Y. 2010. Forest Cover in China from 1949 to 2006. In: Reforesting Landscapes: Linking Pattern and Process, Nagendra, H. and Southworth, J. (Eds.). ISBN-13: 978-1-4020-9655-6, pp 341-356.

Song, C., Katul, G., Oren, R. Band, L. E., Tague, C. L., Stoy, P. C. and McCarthy, H. R. 2009. Energy, Water and Carbon Fluxes in a Loblolly Pine Stand: Results from Uniform and Gappy Canopy Models with Comparisons to Eddy Flux Data. Journal of Geophysical Research-Biogeosciences, 114, G04021, doi:10.1029/2009JG000951 (18 pages).

Song, C., *Lord, W. J., Zhou, L. and Xiao, J. 2008. Empirical Evidence for Impacts of Internal Migration on Vegetation Dynamics in China from 1982 to 2000. Sensors, 8: 5069-5080; DOI: 10.3390/s8085069.

Song, C. and Dickinson, M. B. 2008. Extracting Forest Canopy Structure from Spatial Information of High Resolution Optical Imagery: Tree Crown Size and Leaf Area Index. International Journal of Remote Sensing, 29(19): 5605-5622. DOI: 10.1080/01431160802060904.

Liu, W., Song, C., Schroder, T. A. and Cohen, W. B. 2008. Predicting Forest Successional Stages with Multitemporal Landsat Imagery and Forest Inventory and Analysis Data. International Journal of Remote Sensing, 29(13):3855-3872.

Song, C.  2007. Estimating Tree Crown Size with Spatial Information of High Resolution Optical Remotely Sensed Imagery. International Journal of Remote Sensing, 28(15): 3305-3322.

Song, C., Schroeder, T. A. Cohen, W. B. 2007. Predicting Temperate Conifer Forest Successional Stage Distributions with Multitemporal Landsat Thematic Mapper Imagery, Remote Sensing of Environment, 106: 228-237.

Song, C. 2006. Bayesian Spectral Mixture Analysis for Urban Vegetation. In: Urban Remote Sensing, Weng, Q. and Quattrochi, D. (edts), Taylor and Francis CRC Press.

Zhang, Y. and Song, C. 2006. Impacts of afforestation, deforestation and reforestation on forest cover in China from 1949 to 2003. Journal of Forestry. 104(7): 383-387.

Schroeder, T. A., Cohen, W. B., Song, C., Canty, M. J. and Yang, Z. 2006. Radiometric correction of multi-temporal Landsat data for characterization of early successional forest patterns in western Oregon. Remote Sensing of Environment, 103(1):16-26.

Song, C. 2005. Spectral mixture analysis for subpixel vegetation fractions: How to incorporate endmember variabilities? Remote Sensing of Environment, 95(2):248-263.

Song, C. 2004. Cross-sensor calibration between Ikonos and Landsat ETM+ for spectral mixture analysis. IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters, 1(4):272-276.

Song, C. and Band, L. E.  2004. MVP: A model to simulate the spatial patterns of  photosynthetically active radiation under discrete forest canopies. Canadian Jouranl of Forest Research, 34(6):1192-1203.

Song, C. and Woodcock, C. E. 2003. Monitoring Forest Succession with Multitemporal Landsat Images: Factors of Uncertainty. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, 41(11):2557-2567.

Song, C. and Woodcock, C. E. 2003. Estimating Tree crown size from multiresolution remotely sensed imagery. Photogrammetric Engineering and Remote Sensing, 69(11):1263-1270.

Song, C.  and Woodcock, C. E. 2003. The importance of landuse history and forest age structure in regional terrestrial carbon budgets. Ecological Modelling. 64:33-47.

Song, C., Woodcock, C. E. and Li, X.  2002. The spectral/temporal manifestation of forest succession in optical  imagery: the potential of multitemporal imagery. Remote Sensing of Environment. 82:285-302.

Song, C. and Woodcock, C. E. 2002. The spatial manifestation of  forest succession in optical imagery: the potential of multiresolution imagery. Remote Sensing of Environment. 82:271-284.

Seto, K. C., Woodcock, C.E., Song, C., Huang, X., Kaufmann, R. K., Lu, J. 2002. Measuring landuse change with Landsat TM: evidence from Pearl River Delta. International Journal of Remote Sensing. 23:1985-2004.

Pax-Lenney, M., Woodcock, C. E., Macomber, S. A., Gopal, S. and Song, C. 2001. Forest Mapping with a Generalized Classifier and Landsat TM Data. Remote Sensing of Environment. 77:241-276  (RSE 2001 3rd Most Downloaded Paper)

Song, C., Woodcock, C. E., Seto, K. C., Pax-Lenney, M. and Macomber, S. A. 2001. Classification and Change Detection Using Landsat TM Data: When and How to Correct Atmospheric Effects? Remote Sensing of Environment.  75:230-244.

Song, C., Woodcock, C. E. and Li, X. 2001. Manifestation of forest succession in optical imagery. IEEE 2001 International Geoscience And Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS), 9-13 July 2001, The University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia.

Wang, P. X., Li, X. Gong, J. Y. and Song, C. 2001. Vegetation temperature condition index and its application for drought Monitoring. IEEE 2001 International Geoscience And Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS), 9-13 July 2001, The University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia.

Salvucci, G. D. and  Song, C. 2000. Derived distribution of storm depth and frequency conditioned on monthly total  precipitation: adding value to historical and satellite-derived estimates of monthly precipitation. Journal of Hydrometeorology. 1:113-120.

Pax-lenney, M., Woodcock, C. E., Macomber, S. A. and Song, C. 1999 Identification of conifer forests in Landsat imagery: Generalization in time and space in the pacific northwest, USA. Proceedings, ASPRS 1999 Annual Conference, Portland, Oregon, USA, May 17-21, pp.721-725.

Seto, K. C.,  Song, C., Woodcock, C. E. 1999. Land-use land-cover change in the Pearl River Delta, 1988-1996: Evidence from Landsat TM. Proceedings, ASPRS 1999 Annual Conference, Portland, Oregon, USA, May 17-21, pp. 633-636.

Woodcock, C. E., Macomber, S. A.,  Song, C., Pax-Lenney, M., Gopal, S. 1999. Regional to continental monitoring of change in temperate conifer forests. Pecora 14: Land Satellite Information III Proceedings, ASPRS, pp. 322-327.

He, Q. and  Song, C. 1994. Effects of Forest on the budgets of water, energy and gases in the environment. Journal of Beijing Forestry University (English Edition). 3:1-12.

Song, C. 1993. The microclimate effects of forest ecosystem on the loessial plateau in western Shanxi province (in Chinese). In: The Ecological effects of forest ecosystem on the Loessial Plateau (Ed. Lida Sun and Jinzhao Zhu). The Science Press, China.

Song, C. 1993. The application of Bowen ratio energy balance approach and its error analysis (In Chinese). Journal of Hebei Forestry College. 8:85-96.

Song, C., Zhai, B., Zhang, H. and Wang, W. 1992. A study on the leaf area and the light conditions for Chinese pine at the Permanent Ecosystem Plot in Taiyue forest region Shanxi Province (in Chinese with English abstract). Journal of Beijing Forestry University. 14:164-170.

Zhai, B., Song, C., Zhang, H. and Wang, W. 1992. Studies on Biomass and productivity of Pinus Tabulaeformis plantation at a Permanent Ecosystem Plot in Taiyue forest region Shanxi Province (in Chinese with English abstract).   Journal of Beijing Forestry University. 14:156-163.