Global trends in vegetation fractional cover: Hotspots for change in bare soil and non-photosynthetic vegetation

Remote sensing of trophic cascades: multi‐temporal landsat imagery reveals vegetation change driven by the removal of an apex predator

(2021) Adrian G. Fisher et al.   LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY

The MODIS Global Vegetation Fractional Cover Product 2001–2018: Characteristics of Vegetation Fractional Cover in Grasslands and Savanna Woodlands

(2020) Michael J. Hill et al.   Remote Sensing

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(2020) Carlos A. Guerra et al.   LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY

Soil-litter mixing promotes decomposition and soil aggregate formation on contrasting geomorphic surfaces in a shrub-invaded Sonoran Desert grassland

(2020) E.M. Levi et al.   PLANT AND SOIL

Vegetation cover dependence on accumulated antecedent precipitation in Australia: Relationships with photosynthetic and non-photosynthetic vegetation fractions

(2020) Juan P. Guerschman et al.   REMOTE SENSING OF ENVIRONMENT

Projected impacts of climate change on drought patterns over East Africa

(2020) Gebremedhin Gebremeskel Haile et al.   Earths Future

Land use and climate change impacts on global soil erosion by water (2015-2070)

(2020) Pasquale Borrelli et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Reconstructing Three Decades of Land Use and Land Cover Changes in Brazilian Biomes with Landsat Archive and Earth Engine

(2020) Carlos M. Souza et al.   Remote Sensing

Slow recovery of endangered xerophytic thickets vegetation after slash-and-burn cultivation in Madagascar

(2019) Josoa R. Randriamalala et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

Droughts in East Africa: Causes, impacts and resilience

(2019) Gebremedhin Gebremeskel Haile et al.   EARTH-SCIENCE REVIEWS

Grazing pressure interacts with aridity to determine the development and diversity of biological soil crusts in Patagonian rangelands

(2019) Sergio Velasco Ayuso et al.   LAND DEGRADATION & DEVELOPMENT

Using broadband crop residue angle index to estimate the fractional cover of vegetation, crop residue, and bare soil in cropland systems

(2019) Jibo Yue et al.   REMOTE SENSING OF ENVIRONMENT

Predicting the spatiotemporal variation in soil wind erosion across Central Asia in response to climate change in the 21st century

(2019) Jiangyue Li et al.   SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT

Increasing global vegetation browning hidden in overall vegetation greening: Insights from time-varying trends

(2018) Naiqing Pan et al.   REMOTE SENSING OF ENVIRONMENT

The impacts of land conversion and management measures on the grassland net primary productivity over the Loess Plateau, Northern China

(2018) Chengcheng Gang et al.   SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT

Calibration and validation of the Australian fractional cover product for MODIS collection 6

(2018) Juan Pablo Guerschman et al.   Remote Sensing Letters

Global MODIS Fraction of Green Vegetation Cover for Monitoring Abrupt and Gradual Vegetation Changes

(2018) Federico Filipponi et al.   Remote Sensing

Agricultural Oasis Expansion and Its Impact on Oasis Landscape Patterns in the Southern Margin of Tarim Basin, Northwest China

(2018) Yi Liu et al.   Sustainability

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(2018) Xiao-Peng Song et al.   NATURE

Grazing exclusion—An effective approach for naturally restoring degraded grasslands in Northern China

(2018) Li Wang et al.   LAND DEGRADATION & DEVELOPMENT

Near doubling of Brazil’s intensive row crop area since 2000

(2018) Viviana Zalles et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Global distribution data for cattle, buffaloes, horses, sheep, goats, pigs, chickens and ducks in 2010

(2018) Marius Gilbert et al.   Scientific Data

Methane emission from global livestock sector during 1890-2014: Magnitude, trends and spatiotemporal patterns

(2017) Shree R. S. Dangal et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Estimating fractional vegetation cover and the vegetation index of bare soil and highly dense vegetation with a physically based method

(2017) Wanjuan Song et al.   International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation

WorldClim 2: new 1-km spatial resolution climate surfaces for global land areas

(2017) Stephen E. Fick et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF CLIMATOLOGY

Tobacco cultivation as a driver of land use change and degradation in the miombo woodlands of south-west Tanzania

(2017) Eleanor K.K. Jew et al.   LAND DEGRADATION & DEVELOPMENT

Aridity and Overgrazing Have Convergent Effects on Ecosystem Structure and Functioning in Patagonian Rangelands

(2017) Juan J. Gaitán et al.   LAND DEGRADATION & DEVELOPMENT

Unexpectedly large impact of forest management and grazing on global vegetation biomass

(2017) Karl-Heinz Erb et al.   NATURE

Global bare ground gain from 2000 to 2012 using Landsat imagery

(2017) Qing Ying et al.   REMOTE SENSING OF ENVIRONMENT

Driving forces of recent vegetation changes in the Sahel: Lessons learned from regional and local level analyses

(2017) Louise Leroux et al.   REMOTE SENSING OF ENVIRONMENT

Drivers of farmers’ decisions to adopt agroforestry: Evidence from the Sudanian savanna zone, Burkina Faso

(2017) L. Sanou et al.   RENEWABLE AGRICULTURE AND FOOD SYSTEMS

Recent increases in terrestrial carbon uptake at little cost to the water cycle

(2017) Lei Cheng et al.   Nature Communications

An assessment of the global impact of 21st century land use change on soil erosion

(2017) Pasquale Borrelli et al.   Nature Communications

Mangrove Carbon Stocks and Ecosystem Cover Dynamics in Southwest Madagascar and the Implications for Local Management

(2017) Lisa Benson et al.   Forests

Multiscale Remote Sensing to Map the Spatial Distribution and Extent of Cropland in the Sudanian Savanna of West Africa

(2017) Gerald Forkuor et al.   Remote Sensing

Sustainability in the Food-Water-Ecosystem Nexus: The Role of Land Use and Land Cover Change for Water Resources and Ecosystems in the Kilombero Wetland, Tanzania

(2017) Constanze Leemhuis et al.   Sustainability

Atmospheric dust events in central Asia: Relationship to wind, soil type, and land use

(2017) Huawei Pi et al.   JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH-ATMOSPHERES

Changes in greening in the high Arctic: insights from a 30 year AVHRR max NDVI dataset for Svalbard

(2016) Hannah Vickers et al.   Environmental Research Letters

Land use change and ecosystem service provision in Pampas and Campos grasslands of southern South America

(2016) P Modernel et al.   Environmental Research Letters

Changes in growing season duration and productivity of northern vegetation inferred from long-term remote sensing data

(2016) Taejin Park et al.   Environmental Research Letters

Miombo woodland under threat: Consequences for tree diversity and carbon storage

(2016) Eleanor K.K. Jew et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

Mapping gains and losses in woody vegetation across global tropical drylands

(2016) Feng Tian et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Wildfire and exotic grass invasion alter plant productivity in response to climate variability in the Mojave Desert

(2016) Kevin J. Horn et al.   LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY

Assessing woody vegetation trends in Sahelian drylands using MODIS based seasonal metrics

(2016) Martin Brandt et al.   REMOTE SENSING OF ENVIRONMENT

Recent pause in the growth rate of atmospheric CO2 due to enhanced terrestrial carbon uptake

(2016) Trevor F Keenan et al.   Nature Communications

Sixteen years of change in the global terrestrial human footprint and implications for biodiversity conservation

(2016) Oscar Venter et al.   Nature Communications

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(2016) Zaichun Zhu et al.   Nature Climate Change

Extreme Wildlife Declines and Concurrent Increase in Livestock Numbers in Kenya: What Are the Causes?

(2016) Joseph O. Ogutu et al.   PLoS One

Ground- and satellite-based evidence of the biophysical mechanisms behind the greening Sahel

(2015) Martin Brandt et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Detection and attribution of vegetation greening trend in China over the last 30 years

(2015) Shilong Piao et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Assessing the effects of site heterogeneity and soil properties when unmixing photosynthetic vegetation, non-photosynthetic vegetation and bare soil fractions from Landsat and MODIS data

(2015) Juan P. Guerschman et al.   REMOTE SENSING OF ENVIRONMENT

A Dynamic Vegetation Senescence Indicator for Near-Real-Time Desert Locust Habitat Monitoring with MODIS

(2015) Cécile Renier et al.   Remote Sensing

Predicting Plant Diversity Patterns in Madagascar: Understanding the Effects of Climate and Land Cover Change in a Biodiversity Hotspot

(2015) Kerry A. Brown et al.   PLoS One

Distribution mapping of world grassland types

(2014) A. P. Dixon et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOGEOGRAPHY

Mapping the Global Distribution of Livestock

(2014) Timothy P. Robinson et al.   PLoS One

Monitoring dry vegetation masses in semi-arid areas with MODIS SWIR bands

(2014) Damien Christophe Jacques et al.   REMOTE SENSING OF ENVIRONMENT

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

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

Estimating deforestation in tropical humid and dry forests in Madagascar from 2000 to 2010 using multi-date Landsat satellite images and the random forests classifier

(2013) Clovis Grinand et al.   REMOTE SENSING OF ENVIRONMENT

Comparison of methods for estimation of absolute vegetation and soil fractional cover using MODIS normalized BRDF-adjusted reflectance data

(2013) Gregory S. Okin et al.   REMOTE SENSING OF ENVIRONMENT

Spatial-temporal changes of cropland and climate potential productivity in northern China during 1990–2010

(2013) Yuanwei Qin et al.   Food Security

Temperature and vegetation seasonality diminishment over northern lands

(2013) L. Xu et al.   Nature Climate Change

Seasonal Composite Landsat TM/ETM+ Images Using the Medoid (a Multi-Dimensional Median)

(2013) Neil Flood   Remote Sensing

Grazing Intensity and Spatial Heterogeneity in Bare Soil in a Grazing-Resistant Grassland

(2012) David J. Augustine et al.   Rangeland Ecology & Management

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

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

Litter quantity confers soil functional resilience through mediating soil biophysical habitat and microbial community structure on an eroded bare land restored with mono Pinus massoniana

(2012) Bin Zhang et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

East African food security as influenced by future climate change and land use change at local to regional scales

(2011) Nathan Moore et al.   CLIMATIC CHANGE

Livestock production: recent trends, future prospects

(2010) P. K. Thornton   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Estimating Global Cropland Extent with Multi-year MODIS Data

(2010) Kyle Pittman et al.   Remote Sensing

Agricultural intensification and changes in cultivated areas, 1970-2005

(2009) T. K. Rudel et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Estimating fractional cover of photosynthetic vegetation, non-photosynthetic vegetation and bare soil in the Australian tropical savanna region upscaling the EO-1 Hyperion and MODIS sensors

(2009) Juan Pablo Guerschman et al.   REMOTE SENSING OF ENVIRONMENT

Climate anomalies provide opportunities for large-scale mapping of non-native plant abundance in desert grasslands

(2008) Cho-ying Huang et al.   DIVERSITY AND DISTRIBUTIONS