Remote sensing of phenology: Towards the comprehensive indicators of plant community dynamics from species to regional scales

I Dronova, S Taddeo - Journal of Ecology, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Remote sensing of vegetation phenology has long been used to characterize ecosystem
functions and responses to climate at spatial and temporal scales unfeasible to field surveys …

Use of remote sensing data to improve the efficiency of national forest inventories: A case study from the United States national forest inventory

AJ Lister, H Andersen, T Frescino, D Gatziolis… - Forests, 2020 - mdpi.com
Globally, forests are a crucial natural resource, and their sound management is critical for
human and ecosystem health and well-being. Efforts to manage forests depend upon …

Dry forest decline is driven by both declining recruitment and increasing mortality in response to warm, dry conditions

RK Shriver, CB Yackulic, DM Bell… - Global Ecology and …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Aim Anticipating when and where changes in species' demographic rates will lead to range
shifts in response to changing climate remains a major challenge. Despite evidence of …

Scaled biomass estimation in woodland ecosystems: Testing the individual and combined capacities of satellite multispectral and lidar data

MJ Campbell, PE Dennison, KL Kerr, SC Brewer… - Remote Sensing of …, 2021 - Elsevier
Airborne laser scanning (ALS) data enable accurate modeling and mapping of aboveground
biomass (AGB), but the limited spatial and temporal extents of ALS data collection limit the …

A multi-sensor, multi-scale approach to mapping tree mortality in woodland ecosystems

MJ Campbell, PE Dennison, JW Tune… - Remote Sensing of …, 2020 - Elsevier
Woodland ecosystems, dominant on nearly 4% of all terrestrial land globally, are faced with
a variety of threats, including increasingly prolonged and severe droughts, invasive insect …

Mapping individual tree and plot-level biomass using airborne and mobile lidar in piñon-juniper woodlands

MJ Campbell, JF Eastburn, KA Mistick, AM Smith… - International Journal of …, 2023 - Elsevier
Piñon-juniper (PJ) woodlands are a widespread dryland ecosystem in the US containing an
immense but poorly-constrained amount of aboveground biomass (AGB). Found at the dry …

Reversing tree expansion in sagebrush steppe yields population‐level benefit for imperiled grouse

AC Olsen, JP Severson, JD Maestas, DE Naugle… - …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Woody plant expansion into shrub and grasslands is a global and vexing ecological
problem. In the Great Basin of North America, the expansion of pinyon–juniper (Pinus spp …

[HTML][HTML] Long-term trends in vegetation on Bureau of Land Management rangelands in the western United States

AR Kleinhesselink, EJ Kachergis, SE McCord… - Rangeland Ecology & …, 2023 - Elsevier
Abstract The US Bureau of Land Management (BLM) manages nearly 1 million km 2 of
public lands that support recreation, livestock production, and wildlife habitat. Monitoring the …

Herbaceous production lost to tree encroachment in United States rangelands

SL Morford, BW Allred, D Twidwell… - Journal of Applied …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Rangelands of the United States provide ecosystem services that benefit society
and rural economies. Native tree encroachment is often overlooked as a primary threat to …

Managing for ecological resilience of pinyon–juniper ecosystems during an era of woodland contraction

MD Redmond, AK Urza, PJ Weisberg - Ecosphere, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Dryland woodland ecosystems worldwide have experienced widespread drought‐and heat‐
related tree mortality events coupled with extreme wildfire behavior. In contrast to other …