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(2016) Anthony Manea et al.   OECOLOGIA

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(2016) Franciska T. de Vries et al.   PLANT AND SOIL

Remotely sensed assessment of urbanization effects on vegetation phenology in China's 32 major cities

(2016) Decheng Zhou et al.   REMOTE SENSING OF ENVIRONMENT

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(2016) Hasbagan Ganjurjav et al.   Scientific Reports

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(2015) Jinfeng Chang et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

The transformation of frequency distributions of winter precipitation to spring streamflow probabilities in cold regions; case studies from the Canadian Prairies

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Land Degradation Assessment Using Residual Trend Analysis of GIMMS NDVI3g, Soil Moisture and Rainfall in Sub-Saharan West Africa from 1982 to 2012

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(2015) Xuanlong Ma et al.   Journal of Geophysical Research-Biogeosciences

Determining the relative importance of climatic drivers on spring phenology in grassland ecosystems of semi-arid areas

(2014) Likai Zhu et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF BIOMETEOROLOGY

Tracking Interannual Streamflow Variability with Drought Indices in the U.S. Pacific Northwest

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Diverse Responses of Remotely Sensed Grassland Phenology to Interannual Climate Variability over Frozen Ground Regions in Mongolia

(2014) Zhigang Sun et al.   Remote Sensing

Contrasting response of grassland versus forest carbon and water fluxes to spring drought in Switzerland

(2013) Sebastian Wolf et al.   Environmental Research Letters

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(2013) Wolfgang Buermann et al.   Environmental Research Letters

Standardized precipitation evapotranspiration index (SPEI) revisited: parameter fitting, evapotranspiration models, tools, datasets and drought monitoring

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Updated high-resolution grids of monthly climatic observations - the CRU TS3.10 Dataset

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Effects of drought and elevated temperature on biochemical composition of forage plants and their impact on carbon storage in grassland soil

(2013) Muhammad Sanaullah et al.   PLANT AND SOIL

Phenological Metrics Derived over the European Continent from NDVI3g Data and MODIS Time Series

(2013) Clement Atzberger et al.   Remote Sensing

Evaluating and Quantifying the Climate-Driven Interannual Variability in Global Inventory Modeling and Mapping Studies (GIMMS) Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI3g) at Global Scales

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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

(2013) Zaichun Zhu et al.   Remote Sensing

Global Trends in Seasonality of Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI), 1982–2011

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(2012) Nan Cong et al.   AGRICULTURAL AND FOREST METEOROLOGY

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(2012) Shilong Piao et al.   GLOBAL AND PLANETARY CHANGE

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(2012) Haiying Yu et al.   PLoS One

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(2012) Claudia M. Boot et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

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(2012) Joseph M. Craine et al.   Nature Climate Change

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(2012) Aiguo Dai   Nature Climate Change

Detecting Climate Effects on Vegetation in Northern Mixed Prairie Using NOAA AVHRR 1-km Time-Series NDVI Data

(2012) Zhaoqin Li et al.   Remote Sensing

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(2011) J. Thorpe et al.   CANADIAN JOURNAL OF SOIL SCIENCE

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(2011) William Parton et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Plant phenology networks of citizen scientists: recommendations from two decades of experience in Canada

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Effects of Warming, Summer Drought, and CO2 Enrichment on Aboveground Biomass Production, Flowering Phenology, and Community Structure in an Upland Grassland Ecosystem

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Precipitation and temperature are associated with advanced flowering phenology in a semi-arid grassland

(2010) P. Lesica et al.   JOURNAL OF ARID ENVIRONMENTS

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(2010) V. O. Polyakov et al.   JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH

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Relationship between Soil Moisture and Vegetation Activity in the Mongolian Steppe

(2010) B. Nandintsetseg et al.   SOLA

Intercomparison, interpretation, and assessment of spring phenology in North America estimated from remote sensing for 1982-2006

(2009) MICHAEL A. WHITE et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

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(2009) Y. Julien et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF REMOTE SENSING

A Multiscalar Drought Index Sensitive to Global Warming: The Standardized Precipitation Evapotranspiration Index

(2009) Sergio M. Vicente-Serrano et al.   JOURNAL OF CLIMATE

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(2009) N. Martiny et al.   THEORETICAL AND APPLIED CLIMATOLOGY

Land surface phenology dynamics and climate variations in the North East China Transect (NECT), 1982–2000

(2008) F. Tao et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF REMOTE SENSING