Defining functional biomes and monitoring their change globally

Revising the biome concept for understanding and predicting global change impacts

(2016) Glenn R. Moncrieff et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOGEOGRAPHY

Three decades of multi-dimensional change in global leaf phenology

(2015) Robert Buitenwerf et al.   Nature Climate Change

Biome Shifts and Niche Evolution in Plants

(2014) Michael J. Donoghue et al.   Annual Review of Ecology Evolution and Systematics

Intercontinental divergence in the climate envelope of major plant biomes

(2014) Glenn R. Moncrieff et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

A 50 year study shows grass cover has increased in shrublands of semi-arid South Africa

(2014) Mmoto L. Masubelele et al.   JOURNAL OF ARID ENVIRONMENTS

Savanna Vegetation-Fire-Climate Relationships Differ Among Continents

(2014) C. E. R. Lehmann et al.   SCIENCE

Global Land Cover Mapping: A Review and Uncertainty Analysis

(2014) Russell Congalton et al.   Remote Sensing

A Non-Stationary 1981–2012 AVHRR NDVI3g Time Series

(2014) Jorge Pinzon et al.   Remote Sensing

Tall shrub and tree expansion in Siberian tundra ecotones since the 1960s

(2013) Gerald V. Frost et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Fire regimes and woody biomass dynamics in Australian savannas

(2013) Brett P. Murphy et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOGEOGRAPHY

Increasing atmospheric CO2overrides the historical legacy of multiple stable biome states in Africa

(2013) Glenn R. Moncrieff et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Temperature response of photosynthesis in C3, C4, and CAM plants: temperature acclimation and temperature adaptation

(2013) Wataru Yamori et al.   PHOTOSYNTHESIS RESEARCH

High-Resolution Global Maps of 21st-Century Forest Cover Change

(2013) M. C. Hansen et al.   SCIENCE

A global land-cover validation data set, II: augmenting a stratified sampling design to estimate accuracy by region and land-cover class

(2012) Stephen V. Stehman et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF REMOTE SENSING

A global land-cover validation data set, part I: fundamental design principles

(2012) Pontus Olofsson et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF REMOTE SENSING

Atmospheric CO2 forces abrupt vegetation shifts locally, but not globally

(2012) Steven I. Higgins et al.   NATURE

Mapping forest canopy height globally with spaceborne lidar

(2011) Marc Simard et al.   JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH

Global patterns in the vulnerability of ecosystems to vegetation shifts due to climate change

(2010) Patrick Gonzalez et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

How widespread is woody plant encroachment in temperate Australia? Changes in woody vegetation cover in lowland woodland and coastal ecosystems in Victoria from 1989 to 2005

(2010) Ian D. Lunt et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOGEOGRAPHY

Has global environmental change caused monsoon rainforests to expand in the Australian monsoon tropics?

(2010) David M. J. S. Bowman et al.   LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY

A global overview of drought and heat-induced tree mortality reveals emerging climate change risks for forests

(2009) Craig D. Allen et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

Phylogenetic biome conservatism on a global scale

(2009) Michael D. Crisp et al.   NATURE

Exploring the likelihood and mechanism of a climate-change-induced dieback of the Amazon rainforest

(2009) Y. Malhi et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

MODIS Collection 5 global land cover: Algorithm refinements and characterization of new datasets

(2009) Mark A. Friedl et al.   REMOTE SENSING OF ENVIRONMENT

Expanding forests and changing growth forms of Siberian larch at the Polar Urals treeline during the 20th century

(2008) NADEZHDA DEVI et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Evaluation of the terrestrial carbon cycle, future plant geography and climate-carbon cycle feedbacks using five Dynamic Global Vegetation Models (DGVMs)

(2008) S. SITCH et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY