Detecting forest response to droughts with global observations of vegetation water content

AG Konings, SS Saatchi, C Frankenberg… - Global Change …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Droughts in a warming climate have become more common and more extreme, making
understanding forest responses to water stress increasingly pressing. Analysis of water …

Remote sensing of drought: Progress, challenges and opportunities

A AghaKouchak, A Farahmand, FS Melton… - Reviews of …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
This review surveys current and emerging drought monitoring approaches using satellite
remote sensing observations from climatological and ecosystem perspectives. We argue …

[HTML][HTML] Anthropogenic climate change has driven over 5 million km2 of drylands towards desertification

AL Burrell, JP Evans, MG De Kauwe - Nature communications, 2020 - nature.com
Drylands cover 41% of the earth's land surface and include 45% of the world's agricultural
land. These regions are among the most vulnerable ecosystems to anthropogenic climate …

Global land change from 1982 to 2016

XP Song, MC Hansen, SV Stehman, PV Potapov… - Nature, 2018 - nature.com
Land change is a cause and consequence of global environmental change,. Changes in
land use and land cover considerably alter the Earth's energy balance and biogeochemical …

Accelerated dryland expansion regulates future variability in dryland gross primary production

J Yao, H Liu, J Huang, Z Gao, G Wang, D Li… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Drylands cover 41% of Earth's surface and are the largest source of interannual variability in
the global carbon sink. Drylands are projected to experience accelerated expansion over …

[HTML][HTML] Ultra-fine grain landscape-scale quantification of dryland vegetation structure with drone-acquired structure-from-motion photogrammetry

AM Cunliffe, RE Brazier, K Anderson - Remote Sensing of Environment, 2016 - Elsevier
Covering 40% of the terrestrial surface, dryland ecosystems characteristically have distinct
vegetation structures that are strongly linked to their function. Existing survey approaches …

Desertification

A Mirzabaev, J Wu, J Evans, F García-Oliva… - 2019 - philpapers.org
Abstract IPCC SPECIAL REPORT ON CLIMATE CHANGE AND LAND (SRCCL) Chapter 3:
Climate Change and Land: An IPCC special report on climate change, desertification, land …

Global monitoring of the vegetation dynamics from the Vegetation Optical Depth (VOD): A review

F Frappart, JP Wigneron, X Li, X Liu, A Al-Yaari, L Fan… - Remote Sensing, 2020 - mdpi.com
Vegetation is a key element in the energy, water and carbon balances over the land
surfaces and is strongly impacted by climate change and anthropogenic effects. Remotely …

The Palaearctic steppe biome: a new synthesis

K Wesche, D Ambarlı, J Kamp, P Török… - Biodiversity and …, 2016 - Springer
The Palaearctic steppes range from the Mediterranean basin towards China, forming one of
the largest continuous terrestrial biomes. The literature on steppe ecology and conservation …

The global long-term microwave vegetation optical depth climate archive (VODCA)

L Moesinger, W Dorigo, R De Jeu… - Earth System …, 2020 - essd.copernicus.org
Since the late 1970s, space-borne microwave radiometers have been providing
measurements of radiation emitted by the Earth's surface. From these measurements it is …