Rainfall events are globally becoming less frequent but more intense under a changing
climate, thereby shifting climatic conditions for terrestrial vegetation independent of annual …

Biodiversity monitoring has entered an era of 'big data', exemplified by a near‐continuous
collection of sounds, images, chemical and other signals from organisms in diverse …

Drylands contribute roughly 40% of the global net primary productivity and are essential for
achieving sustainable development. Investigating the effects on vegetation from urban …

As the most extensive temperate grassland in the world, the Eurasian Steppe provides
various ecological services that support the environment and human well-being. However …

Growth responses of low-mountain grasslands to climate warming are poorly understood
despite very large surfaces being covered in central Europe. These grasslands are …

The non-photosynthetic vegetation–soil separation index (NSSI) and normalized difference
vegetation index (NDVI) can be used to simultaneously estimate the fractional cover of non …

The hyper-arid environment is characterized by high inter-annual climatic fluctuations. The
yearly average rainfall can change substantially for several years, forming wet or dry sub …

Эфемеры и эфемероиды формируют в весенний период в южном Казахстане
краткосрочный, но относительно развитый травяной покров. Этот важный компонент …

Ephemera and ephemeroid plants form a short-term but relatively developed herbaceous
cover during spring in South Kazakhstan. This important component of vegetation of arid …

My general areas of research are community ecology and population biology, with strong
extensions into evolution, phylogenetics, and more recently ecosystem ecology and remote …