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Among them are the leaf area index (LAI) and albedo, which play a fundamental role in understanding many causes and consequences of land surface processes and climate. Here, we focused on the spatiotemporal changes of LAI, albedo, and their spatiotemporal relationships on the two roofing landscapes in Eurasia. Based on the MODIS products, we investigated the spatiotemporal changes of albedo(VIS, NIR and SHO) and LAI from 2000 through 2016. We found that there existed a general negative logarithmic relationship between LAI and three measures of albedo on both plateaus. No significant relationship was found for LAI-albedoNIR on the TP, due to more complex land surface canopy characteristics affected by the NIR reflection there. During 2000\u20132016, overall, annual mean LAI increased significantly by 119.40 \u00d7 103 km2 on the MP and by 28.35 \u00d7 103 km2 on the TP, while the decreased areas for annual mean albedoVIS were 585.59 \u00d7 103 km2 and 235.73 \u00d7 103 km2 on the MP and TP, respectively. More importantly, the LAI-albedo relationships varied substantially across the space and over time, with mismatches found in some parts of the landscapes. Substantial additional efforts with observational and\/or experimental investigations are needed to explore the underlying mechanisms responsible for these relationships, including the influences of vegetation characteristics and disturbances.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/rs10071159","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2018,7,24]],"date-time":"2018-07-24T02:58:56Z","timestamp":1532401136000},"page":"1159","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":28,"title":["Interdependent Dynamics of LAI-Albedo across the Roofing Landscapes: Mongolian and Tibetan Plateaus"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"10","author":[{"given":"Li","family":"Tian","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Qianyanzhou Ecological Research Station, Key Laboratory of Ecosystem Network Observation and Modeling, Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-0761-9458","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Jiquan","family":"Chen","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"CGCEO and Department of Geography, Environment, and Spatial Sciences, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 48823, USA"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Changliang","family":"Shao","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"National Hulunber Grassland Ecosystem Observation and Research Station &amp; Institute of Agricultural Resources and Regional Planning, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing 100081, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2018,7,23]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"97","DOI":"10.1175\/2009JCLI3102.1","article-title":"Climatic impact of global-scale deforestation: Radiative versus nonradiative processes","volume":"23","author":"Davin","year":"2010","journal-title":"J. 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