Revealing turning points in ecosystem functioning over the Northern Eurasian agricultural frontier

Long-term agricultural land-cover change and potential for cropland expansion in the former Virgin Lands area of Kazakhstan

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Global-scale mapping of changes in ecosystem functioning from earth observation-based trends in total and recurrent vegetation

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Using multiple remote sensing perspectives to identify and attribute land surface dynamics in Central Asia 2001–2013

(2015) Kirsten M. de Beurs et al.   REMOTE SENSING OF ENVIRONMENT

Mapping farmland abandonment and recultivation across Europe using MODIS NDVI time series

(2015) Stephan Estel et al.   REMOTE SENSING OF ENVIRONMENT

Eastern Europe's forest cover dynamics from 1985 to 2012 quantified from the full Landsat archive

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Detecting changes in vegetation trends using time series segmentation

(2015) Sadegh Jamali et al.   REMOTE SENSING OF ENVIRONMENT

Evaluating temporal consistency of long-term global NDVI datasets for trend analysis

(2015) Feng Tian et al.   REMOTE SENSING OF ENVIRONMENT

Climate Contributions to Vegetation Variations in Central Asian Drylands: Pre- and Post-USSR Collapse

(2015) Yu Zhou et al.   Remote Sensing

Quantifying drylands' drought resistance and recovery: the importance of drought intensity, dominant life history and grazing regime

(2014) Jan C. Ruppert et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Contribution of semi-arid ecosystems to interannual variability of the global carbon cycle

(2014) Benjamin Poulter et al.   NATURE

Global assessment of trends in wetting and drying over land

(2014) Peter Greve et al.   Nature Geoscience

Rain use efficiency as affected by climate warming and biofuel harvest: results from a 12-year field experiment

(2013) Liming Yan et al.   Global Change Biology Bioenergy

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

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

Post-Soviet cropland abandonment and carbon sequestration in European Russia, Ukraine, and Belarus

(2013) Florian Schierhorn et al.   GLOBAL BIOGEOCHEMICAL CYCLES

Spatial relationship between climatologies and changes in global vegetation activity

(2013) Rogier de Jong et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

How to measure ecosystem stability? An evaluation of the reliability of stability metrics based on remote sensing time series across the major global ecosystems

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Ecosystem resilience despite large-scale altered hydroclimatic conditions

(2013) Guillermo E. Ponce-Campos et al.   NATURE

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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 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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An ecological assessment of pasturelands in the Balkhash area of Kazakhstan with remote sensing and models

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Effects of institutional changes on land use: agricultural land abandonment during the transition from state-command to market-driven economies in post-Soviet Eastern Europe

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Uncertainties in daily rainfall over Africa: assessment of gridded observation products and evaluation of a regional climate model simulation

(2012) M. B. Sylla et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF CLIMATOLOGY

Meta-analysis of ANPP and rain-use efficiency confirms indicative value for degradation and supports non-linear response along precipitation gradients in drylands

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Using the Landsat record to detect forest-cover changes during and after the collapse of the Soviet Union in the temperate zone of European Russia

(2012) Matthias Baumann 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

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Combined analysis of land cover change and NDVI trends in the Northern Eurasian grain belt

(2012) Christopher K. Wright et al.   Frontiers of Earth Science

Rapid land use change after socio-economic disturbances: the collapse of the Soviet Union versus Chernobyl

(2011) Patrick Hostert et al.   Environmental Research Letters

Was there a basis for anticipating the 2010 Russian heat wave?

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Trend changes in global greening and browning: contribution of short-term trends to longer-term change

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Changes in satellite-derived vegetation growth trend in temperate and boreal Eurasia from 1982 to 2006

(2011) SHILONG PIAO et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Regional- and district-level drivers of timber harvesting in European Russia after the collapse of the Soviet Union

(2011) Kelly J. Wendland 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

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C4 grasses prosper as carbon dioxide eliminates desiccation in warmed semi-arid grassland

(2011) Jack A. Morgan et al.   NATURE

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

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

Early warning of climate tipping points

(2011) Timothy M. Lenton   Nature Climate Change

Changes in the area of inland lakes in arid regions of central Asia during the past 30 years

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Recent trends in changes of vegetation over East Asia coupled with temperature and rainfall variations

(2010) Hye-Sook Park et al.   JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH

Dual scale trend analysis for evaluating climatic and anthropogenic effects on the vegetated land surface in Russia and Kazakhstan

(2009) K M de Beurs et al.   Environmental Research Letters

Salinization dynamics in irrigated soils of the Svetloyarsk irrigation system, Volgograd oblast

(2009) A. F. Novikova et al.   EURASIAN SOIL SCIENCE

Climate and environmental change in arid Central Asia: Impacts, vulnerability, and adaptations

(2009) E. Lioubimtseva et al.   JOURNAL OF ARID ENVIRONMENTS

Detecting trend and seasonal changes in satellite image time series

(2009) Jan Verbesselt et al.   REMOTE SENSING OF ENVIRONMENT

Global Trends and Variability in Soil Moisture and Drought Characteristics, 1950–2000, from Observation-Driven Simulations of the Terrestrial Hydrologic Cycle

(2008) Justin Sheffield et al.   JOURNAL OF CLIMATE

Tipping elements in the Earth's climate system

(2008) T. M. Lenton et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Proxy global assessment of land degradation

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

When similar ecological patterns in time emerge from different initial conditions: equifinality in the breeding performance of animal populations

(2007) Vincenzo Penteriani   Ecological Complexity