Estimating forest litter fuel load by integrating remotely sensed foliage phenology and modeled litter decomposition

Funding

This work was supported by the National Key Research and Development Program of China (Contract No. 2022YFC3003001). The authors would like to thank Rui Chen, Chunquan Fan, Jianpeng Yin and Hongguo Zhang of the Quantitative remote sensing team at the University of Electronic Science and Technology of China for their help with field data collection. The contributions of T.A.J. and S.V. were funded by the European Research Council through a Consolidator grant under the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation program (grant agreement No. 101000987) awarded to S.V.