Drought Variability and Land Degradation in Semiarid Regions: Assessment Using Remote Sensing Data and Drought Indices (1982–2011)

Contribution of precipitation and reference evapotranspiration to drought indices under different climates

(2015) Sergio M. Vicente-Serrano et al.   JOURNAL OF HYDROLOGY

Start of the dry season as a main determinant of inter-annual Mediterranean forest production variations

(2014) Fabio Maselli et al.   AGRICULTURAL AND FOREST METEOROLOGY

Diverse responses of forest growth to drought time-scales in the Northern Hemisphere

(2014) Sergio M. Vicente-Serrano et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

Plant growth enhancement by elevated CO2 eliminated by joint water and nitrogen limitation

(2014) Peter B. Reich et al.   Nature Geoscience

A Drier Future?

(2014) S. Sherwood et al.   SCIENCE

Rain-Use-Efficiency: What it Tells us about the Conflicting Sahel Greening and Sahelian Paradox

(2014) Cécile Dardel et al.   Remote Sensing

Thirty-two Years of Sahelian Zone Growing Season Non-Stationary NDVI3g Patterns and Trends

(2014) Assaf Anyamba et al.   Remote Sensing

A Non-Stationary 1981–2012 AVHRR NDVI3g Time Series

(2014) Jorge Pinzon et al.   Remote Sensing

Impact of CO2fertilization on maximum foliage cover across the globe's warm, arid environments

(2013) Randall J. Donohue et al.   GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS

Updated high-resolution grids of monthly climatic observations - the CRU TS3.10 Dataset

(2013) I. Harris et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF CLIMATOLOGY

The Response of Aboveground Net Primary Productivity of Desert Vegetation to Rainfall Pulse in the Temperate Desert Region of Northwest China

(2013) Fang Li et al.   PLoS One

Global change-type drought-induced tree mortality: vapor pressure deficit is more important than temperature per se in causing decline in tree health

(2013) Derek Eamus et al.   Ecology and Evolution

A Global Assessment of Long-Term Greening and Browning Trends in Pasture Lands Using the GIMMS LAI3g Dataset

(2013) Benjamin Cook et al.   Remote Sensing

Combined Spatial and Temporal Effects of Environmental Controls on Long-Term Monthly NDVI in the Southern Africa Savanna

(2013) Miguel Campo-Bescós et al.   Remote Sensing

Divergent Arctic-Boreal Vegetation Changes between North America and Eurasia over the Past 30 Years

(2013) Jian Bi et al.   Remote Sensing

Evaluating and Quantifying the Climate-Driven Interannual Variability in Global Inventory Modeling and Mapping Studies (GIMMS) Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI3g) at Global Scales

(2013) Fan-Wei Zeng et al.   Remote Sensing

Shifts in Global Vegetation Activity Trends

(2013) Rogier de Jong et al.   Remote Sensing

Assessing Land Degradation/Recovery in the African Sahel from Long-Term Earth Observation Based Primary Productivity and Precipitation Relationships

(2013) Rasmus Fensholt et al.   Remote Sensing

Global Latitudinal-Asymmetric Vegetation Growth Trends and Their Driving Mechanisms: 1982–2009

(2013) Jiafu Mao et al.   Remote Sensing

The critical amplifying role of increasing atmospheric moisture demand on tree mortality and associated regional die-off

(2013) David D. Breshears et al.   Frontiers in Plant Science

Global desertification: Drivers and feedbacks

(2012) Paolo D’Odorico et al.   ADVANCES IN WATER RESOURCES

Performance of Drought Indices for Ecological, Agricultural, and Hydrological Applications

(2012) Sergio M. Vicente-Serrano et al.   Earth Interactions

Dryness is accelerating degradation of vulnerable shrublands in semiarid Mediterranean environments

(2012) S. M. Vicente-Serrano et al.   ECOLOGICAL MONOGRAPHS

Vegetation impoverishment despite greening: A case study from central Senegal

(2012) S.M. Herrmann et al.   JOURNAL OF ARID ENVIRONMENTS

Development of a physically based PDSI and its application for assessing the vegetation response to drought in northern China

(2012) Jing Xu et al.   JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH

Distinguishing between human-induced and climate-driven vegetation changes: a critical application of RESTREND in inner Mongolia

(2012) Ang Li et al.   LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY

Atmospheric CO2 forces abrupt vegetation shifts locally, but not globally

(2012) Steven I. Higgins et al.   NATURE

Approaching a state shift in Earth’s biosphere

(2012) Anthony D. Barnosky et al.   NATURE

Response of vegetation to drought time-scales across global land biomes

(2012) S. M. Vicente-Serrano et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Complex land cover change processes in semiarid Mediterranean regions: An approach using Landsat images in northeast Spain

(2012) Teodoro Lasanta et al.   REMOTE SENSING OF ENVIRONMENT

Greenness in semi-arid areas across the globe 1981–2007 — an Earth Observing Satellite based analysis of trends and drivers

(2012) Rasmus Fensholt et al.   REMOTE SENSING OF ENVIRONMENT

Can a 25-year trend in Soudano-Sahelian vegetation dynamics be interpreted in terms of land use change? A remote sensing approach

(2011) Agnès Bégué et al.   GLOBAL ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE-HUMAN AND POLICY DIMENSIONS

Desertification in the Sahel: Towards better accounting for ecosystem dynamics in the interpretation of remote sensing images

(2011) L. Hein et al.   JOURNAL OF ARID ENVIRONMENTS

Ecological and socio-economical thresholds of land and plant-community degradation in semi-arid Mediterranean areas of southeastern Spain

(2011) C.L. Alados et al.   JOURNAL OF ARID ENVIRONMENTS

The roles of hydraulic and carbon stress in a widespread climate-induced forest die-off

(2011) W. R. L. Anderegg et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Global evaluation of four AVHRR–NDVI data sets: Intercomparison and assessment against Landsat imagery

(2011) Hylke E. Beck et al.   REMOTE SENSING OF ENVIRONMENT

A Multiscalar Global Drought Dataset: The SPEIbase: A New Gridded Product for the Analysis of Drought Variability and Impacts

(2010) Santiago Beguería et al.   BULLETIN OF THE AMERICAN METEOROLOGICAL SOCIETY

Changes in precipitation with climate change

(2010) KE Trenberth   CLIMATE RESEARCH

A New Global 0.5° Gridded Dataset (1901–2006) of a Multiscalar Drought Index: Comparison with Current Drought Index Datasets Based on the Palmer Drought Severity Index

(2010) S. M. Vicente-Serrano et al.   JOURNAL OF HYDROMETEOROLOGY

Dryland observation at local and regional scale — Comparison of Landsat TM/ETM+ and NOAA AVHRR time series

(2010) M. Stellmes et al.   REMOTE SENSING OF ENVIRONMENT

Analysis of monotonic greening and browning trends from global NDVI time-series

(2010) Rogier de Jong et al.   REMOTE SENSING OF ENVIRONMENT

Analysis of trends in the Sahelian ‘rain-use efficiency’ using GIMMS NDVI, RFE and GPCP rainfall data

(2010) Rasmus Fensholt et al.   REMOTE SENSING OF ENVIRONMENT

Drought under global warming: a review

(2010) Aiguo Dai   Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews-Climate Change

Evaluating the utility of the Vegetation Condition Index (VCI) for monitoring meteorological drought in Texas

(2009) Steven M. Quiring et al.   AGRICULTURAL AND FOREST METEOROLOGY

A Multiscalar Drought Index Sensitive to Global Warming: The Standardized Precipitation Evapotranspiration Index

(2009) Sergio M. Vicente-Serrano et al.   JOURNAL OF CLIMATE

Woody plant population dynamics in response to climate changes from 1984 to 2006 in Sahel (Gourma, Mali)

(2009) Pierre Hiernaux et al.   JOURNAL OF HYDROLOGY

Mechanisms of plant survival and mortality during drought: why do some plants survive while others succumb to drought?

(2008) Nate McDowell et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Trend analysis of Landsat-TM and -ETM+ imagery to monitor grazing impact in a rangeland ecosystem in Northern Greece

(2008) A. Röder et al.   REMOTE SENSING OF ENVIRONMENT

Comparing Direct Abiotic Amelioration and Facilitation as Tools for Restoration of Semiarid Grasslands

(2008) Yolanda Pueyo et al.   RESTORATION ECOLOGY

Proxy global assessment of land degradation

(2008) Z. G. Bai et al.   SOIL USE AND MANAGEMENT