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Recent trends in Inner Asian forest dynamics to temperature and precipitation indicate high sensitivity to climate change

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Analysis of trends in fused AVHRR and MODIS NDVI data for 1982-2006: Indication for a CO2fertilization effect in global vegetation

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The Millennium Drought in southeast Australia (2001-2009): Natural and human causes and implications for water resources, ecosystems, economy, and society

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Temperature and vegetation seasonality diminishment over northern lands

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Global Data Sets of Vegetation Leaf Area Index (LAI)3g and Fraction of Photosynthetically Active Radiation (FPAR)3g Derived from Global Inventory Modeling and Mapping Studies (GIMMS) Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI3g) for the Period 1981 to 2011

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Global desertification: Drivers and feedbacks

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Multi-pronged assessment of land degradation in West Africa to assess the importance of atmospheric fertilization in masking the processes involved

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

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

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Evaluation of Earth Observation based global long term vegetation trends — Comparing GIMMS and MODIS global NDVI time series

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Decade-long soil nitrogen constraint on the CO2 fertilization of plant biomass

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Three distinct global estimates of historical land-cover change and land-use conversions for over 200 years

(2012) Prasanth Meiyappan et al.   Frontiers of Earth Science

Impacts of shrub encroachment on ecosystem structure and functioning: towards a global synthesis

(2011) David J. Eldridge et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Tropical cyclones and the ecohydrology of Australia's recent continental-scale drought

(2011) Gavan S. McGrath et al.   GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS

Quantitative mapping of global land degradation using Earth observations

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Patterns and processes of global shrub expansion

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

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Reprocessing the MODIS Leaf Area Index products for land surface and climate modelling

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Land use/land cover changes and climate: modeling analysis and observational evidence

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The HYDE 3.1 spatially explicit database of human-induced global land-use change over the past 12,000 years

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Long-term degradation of Sahelian rangeland detected by 27 years of field study in Senegal

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Spatial and temporal variation of global LAI during 1981–2006

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Assessing rangeland degradation using multi temporal satellite images and grazing pressure surface model in Upper Mustang, Trans Himalaya, Nepal

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

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Drought-Induced Reduction in Global Terrestrial Net Primary Production from 2000 Through 2009

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Recent Land Degradation and Improvement in China

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Shrub encroachment can reverse desertification in semi-arid Mediterranean grasslands

(2009) Fernando T. Maestre et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Land degradation in drylands: Interactions among hydrologic–aeolian erosion and vegetation dynamics

(2009) Sujith Ravi et al.   GEOMORPHOLOGY

Climate-related trends in Australian vegetation cover as inferred from satellite observations, 1981-2006

(2009) RANDALL J. DONOHUE et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Multitemporal Landsat TM imagery analysis for mapping and quantifying degraded rangeland in the Bahurutshe communal grazing lands, South Africa

(2009) C. Munyati et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF REMOTE SENSING

The challenge of rangeland degradation in a temperate semiarid region of Argentina: The Caldenal

(2009) O. A. Fernández et al.   LAND DEGRADATION & DEVELOPMENT

Amplification of the North American "Dust Bowl" drought through human-induced land degradation

(2009) B. I. Cook et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

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(2009) K. J. Wessels   SOIL USE AND MANAGEMENT

Regional desertification: A global synthesis

(2008) Ulf Helldén et al.   GLOBAL AND PLANETARY CHANGE

CO2fertilization in temperate FACE experiments not representative of boreal and tropical forests

(2008) THOMAS HICKLER et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Shrub encroachment in North American grasslands: shifts in growth form dominance rapidly alters control of ecosystem carbon inputs

(2008) ALAN K. KNAPP et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Proxy global assessment of land degradation

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