Analysis of spatiotemporal changes and driving factors of desertification in the Africa Sahel

Spatiotemporal changes in desertified land in rare earth mining areas under different disturbance conditions

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Development of a multiscale discretization method for the geographical detector model

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Monitoring desertification in Mongolia based on Landsat images and Google Earth Engine from 1990 to 2020

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Spatial and Temporal Characteristics of Vegetation NDVI Changes and the Driving Forces in Mongolia during 1982–2015

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An optimal parameters-based geographical detector model enhances geographic characteristics of explanatory variables for spatial heterogeneity analysis: cases with different types of spatial data

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Desertification risk assessment in Turkey based on environmentally sensitive areas

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Impacts of land cover changes on desertification in northern Nigeria and implications on the Lake Chad Basin

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Land desertification and its influencing factors in Kazakhstan

(2020) Yunfeng Hu et al.   JOURNAL OF ARID ENVIRONMENTS

An unexpectedly large count of trees in the West African Sahara and Sahel

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Study of the desertification index based on the albedo-MSAVI feature space for semi-arid steppe region

(2019) Zhenhua Wu et al.   Environmental Earth Sciences

Spatial assessment and mapping of soil quality index for desertification in the semi-arid terrestrial ecosystem using MCDM in interval type-2 fuzzy environment

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Spatiotemporal changes in the Aeolian desertification of Hulunbuir Grassland and its driving factors in China during 1980–2015

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Comparing Remote Sensing Methods for Monitoring Karst Rocky Desertification at Sub-pixel Scales in a Highly Heterogeneous Karst Region

(2019) Xiangkun Qi et al.   Scientific Reports

Analysis of the desertification dynamics of sandy lands in Northern China over the period 2000–2017

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Dynamic monitoring of desertification in Naiman Banner based on feature space models with typical surface parameters derived from Landsat images

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Twentieth-Century Climate Change over Africa: Seasonal Hydroclimate Trends and Sahara Desert Expansion

(2018) Natalie Thomas et al.   JOURNAL OF CLIMATE

DOES GRAZING CAUSE LAND DEGRADATION? EVIDENCE FROM THE SANDY FERLO IN NORTHERN SENEGAL

(2018) Kjeld Rasmussen et al.   LAND DEGRADATION & DEVELOPMENT

A predictive model for Lake Chad total surface water area using remotely sensed and modeled hydrological and meteorological parameters and multivariate regression analysis

(2018) Frederick Policelli et al.   JOURNAL OF HYDROLOGY

Desertification Information Extraction Based on Feature Space Combinations on the Mongolian Plateau

(2018) Haishuo Wei et al.   Remote Sensing

Dynamic monitoring of aeolian desertification based on multiple indicators in Horqin Sandy Land, China

(2018) Hanchen Duan et al.   SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT

Monitoring land sensitivity to desertification in Central Asia: Convergence or divergence?

(2018) Liangliang Jiang et al.   SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT

Applying the change vector analysis technique to assess the desertification risk in the south-west of Romania in the period 1984–2011

(2017) Iosif Vorovencii   ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING AND ASSESSMENT

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

Quantitative assessment of aeolian desertification dynamics– A case study in north Shanxi of China (1975 to 2015)

(2017) Zhanjin Xue et al.   Scientific Reports

Assessment of land cover change and desertification using remote sensing technology in a local region of Mongolia

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A measure of spatial stratified heterogeneity

(2016) Jin-Feng Wang et al.   ECOLOGICAL INDICATORS

Estimation of the Costs of Desertification in China: A Critical Review

(2016) Leilei Cheng et al.   LAND DEGRADATION & DEVELOPMENT

Desertification in western Rajasthan (India): an assessment using remote sensing derived rain-use efficiency and residual trend methods

(2016) Arnab Kundu et al.   NATURAL HAZARDS

A Quantitative Evaluation of the Multiple Narratives of the Recent Sahelian Regreening

(2016) Mimi Stith et al.   Weather Climate and Society

Geographical Detector-Based Identification of the Impact of Major Determinants on Aeolian Desertification Risk

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Desertification, land use, and the transformation of global drylands

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On regreening and degradation in Sahelian watersheds

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Past and future rainfall in the Horn of Africa

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Identification of driving factors of land degradation and deforestation in the Wildlife Reserve of Bontioli (Burkina Faso, West Africa)

(2015) Kangbéni Dimobe et al.   Global Ecology and Conservation

Environmental change in time series – An interdisciplinary study in the Sahel of Mali and Senegal

(2014) Martin Brandt et al.   JOURNAL OF ARID ENVIRONMENTS

A unifying view of climate change in the Sahel linking intra-seasonal, interannual and longer time scales

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Re-greening Sahel: 30years of remote sensing data and field observations (Mali, Niger)

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Building resilience to face recurring environmental crisis in African Sahel

(2013) Emily Boyd et al.   Nature Climate Change

Global desertification: Drivers and feedbacks

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Monitoring desertification in a Savannah region in Sudan using Landsat images and spectral mixture analysis

(2012) M. Dawelbait et al.   JOURNAL OF ARID ENVIRONMENTS

Intensity analysis to unify measurements of size and stationarity of land changes by interval, category, and transition

(2012) Safaa Zakaria Aldwaik et al.   LANDSCAPE AND URBAN PLANNING

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

Assessment of the relative role of climate change and human activities in desertification: A review

(2011) Duanyang Xu et al.   Journal of Geographical Sciences

LOCAL PERCEPTIONS OF WOODY VEGETATION DYNAMICS IN THE CONTEXT OF A ‘GREENING SAHEL’: A CASE STUDY FROM BURKINA FASO

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Change trends for desertified lands in the Horqin Sandy Land at the beginning of the twenty-first century

(2009) Zhiwen Han et al.   Environmental Earth Sciences

Fifty years of landscape evolution in Southwestern Mauritania by means of aerial photos

(2007) A.J. Niang et al.   JOURNAL OF ARID ENVIRONMENTS