Multitemporal remote sensing of landscape dynamics and pattern change: describing natural and anthropogenic trends

SN Gillanders, NC Coops, MA Wulder… - Progress in physical …, 2008 - journals.sagepub.com
Science and reporting information needs for monitoring dynamics in land cover over time
have prompted research, and made operational, a wide variety of change detection methods …

Post-hurricane forest damage assessment using satellite remote sensing

W Wang, JJ Qu, X Hao, Y Liu, JA Stanturf - Agricultural and forest …, 2010 - Elsevier
This study developed a rapid assessment algorithm for post-hurricane forest damage
estimation using moderate resolution imaging spectroradiometer (MODIS) measurements …

Andean land use and biodiversity: humanized landscapes in a time of change

KR Young - Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden, 2009 - BioOne
Some landscapes cannot be understood without references to the kinds, degrees, and
history of human-caused modifications to the Earth's surface. The tropical latitudes of the …

Climatic and topographic controls on patterns of fire in the southern and central Appalachian Mountains, USA

WT Flatley, CW Lafon, HD Grissino-Mayer - Landscape Ecology, 2011 - Springer
Climate and topography are two important controls on spatial patterns of fire disturbance in
forests globally, via their influence on fuel moisture and fuel production. To assess the …

Ecological importance of intermediate windstorms rivals large, infrequent disturbances in the northern Great Lakes

KM Stueve, CH Perry, MD Nelson, SP Healey… - …, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
Exogenous disturbances are critical agents of change in temperate forests capable of
damaging trees and influencing forest structure, composition, demography, and ecosystem …

Ecosystem size and complexity as extrinsic drivers of food chain length in branching ecosystems

JPF Pomeranz, JC Finlay, A Terui - Ecosphere, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Understanding the drivers of food chain length in natural communities has intrigued
ecologists since Elton publicized “food cycles” in the early 20th century. Proposed drivers of …

Attributing a causal agent and assessing the severity of non-stand replacing disturbances in a northern hardwood Forest using Landsat-derived vegetation indices

A Morin-Bernard, A Achim… - Canadian Journal of …, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
Non-stand-replacing disturbances are major drivers of northern hardwood forest dynamics,
but are more challenging to characterize using satellite imagery than stand-replacing …

Analysis of forest damage caused by the snow and ice chaos along a transect across southern China in spring 2008

Q Shao, L Huang, J Liu, W Kuang, J Li - Journal of Geographical Sciences, 2011 - Springer
An abrupt ice and snow storm disaster which occurred in the spring of 2008 severely
destroyed forests over a surprisingly large portion of southern China. A transect crossing …

Snow-covered Landsat time series stacks improve automated disturbance mapping accuracy in forested landscapes

KM Stueve, IW Housman, PL Zimmerman… - Remote Sensing of …, 2011 - Elsevier
Accurate landscape-scale maps of forests and associated disturbances are critical to
augment studies on biodiversity, ecosystem services, and the carbon cycle, especially in …

Using MODIS EVI to detect vegetation damage caused by the 2008 ice and snow storms in south China

J Chen, L Sun - Journal of Geophysical Research …, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
This study develops a new method for detecting areas with severe vegetation damage
caused by a serious ice and snow storm event that occurred in southern China over the …