Mechanisms, monitoring and modeling of shrub encroachment into grassland: a review

Mechanisms of shrub encroachment into Northern Chihuahuan Desert grasslands and impacts of climate change investigated using a cellular automata model

(2016) Domenico Caracciolo et al.   ADVANCES IN WATER RESOURCES

Woodland expansion in South African grassy biomes based on satellite observations (1990-2013): general patterns and potential drivers

(2016) Andrew L. Skowno et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Mechanisms of bush encroachment and its inter-connection with rangeland degradation in semi-arid African ecosystems: a review

(2016) Anteneh Belayneh et al.   Journal of Arid Land

Estimation of Fractional Vegetation Cover in Semiarid Areas by Integrating Endmember Reflectance Purification Into Nonlinear Spectral Mixture Analysis

(2015) Lei Ma et al.   IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters

Assessment of Multiple Scattering in the Reflectance of Semiarid Shrublands

(2015) Jianmin Wang et al.   IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON GEOSCIENCE AND REMOTE SENSING

Prescribed fire as a tool for managing shrub encroachment in semi-arid savanna rangelands

(2014) Dirk Lohmann et al.   JOURNAL OF ARID ENVIRONMENTS

Predictive Mapping of Dwarf Shrub Vegetation in an Arid High Mountain Ecosystem Using Remote Sensing and Random Forests

(2014) Kim Vanselow et al.   Remote Sensing

Shrub encroachment with increasing anthropogenic disturbance in the semiarid Inner Mongolian grasslands of China

(2013) Hai-Ying Peng et al.   CATENA

Two important indicators with potential to identify Caragana microphylla in xilin gol grassland from temporal MODIS data

(2013) Yuan Zhou et al.   ECOLOGICAL INDICATORS

Modeling shrub encroachment in subalpine grasslands under different environmental and management scenarios

(2013) B. Komac et al.   JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT

Modeling the ecohydrological role of aspect-controlled radiation on tree-grass-shrub coexistence in a semiarid climate

(2013) Xiaochi Zhou et al.   WATER RESOURCES RESEARCH

Modeling Potential Range Expansion of the Invasive Shrub Leucaena leucocephala in the Hengchun Peninsula, Taiwan

(2013) Chyi-Rong Chiou et al.   Invasive Plant Science and Management

An Object-Based Approach for Mapping Shrub and Tree Cover on Grassland Habitats by Use of LiDAR and CIR Orthoimages

(2013) Thomas Hellesen et al.   Remote Sensing

Understanding the long-term spatial dynamics of a semiarid grass-shrub steppe through inverse parameterization for simulation models

(2012) Pablo A. Cipriotti et al.   OIKOS

Expansion of Canopy-Forming Willows Over the Twentieth Century on Herschel Island, Yukon Territory, Canada

(2011) Isla H. Myers-Smith et al.   AMBIO

Direct and indirect effects of grazing constrain shrub encroachment in semi-arid Patagonian steppes

(2011) Pablo A. Cipriotti et al.   APPLIED VEGETATION SCIENCE

Automatic detection of shrub location, crown area, and cover using spatial wavelet analysis and aerial photography

(2011) Steven R Garrity et al.   CANADIAN JOURNAL OF REMOTE SENSING

A synthetic review of feedbacks and drivers of shrub encroachment in arid grasslands

(2011) Paolo D'Odorico et al.   Ecohydrology

Impacts of shrub encroachment on ecosystem structure and functioning: towards a global synthesis

(2011) David J. Eldridge et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

A Quantitative Analysis of Virtual Endmembers' Increased Impact on the Collinearity Effect in Spectral Unmixing

(2011) Xuehong Chen et al.   IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON GEOSCIENCE AND REMOTE SENSING

Spectral mixture analysis to assess post-fire vegetation regeneration using Landsat Thematic Mapper imagery: Accounting for soil brightness variation

(2011) S. Veraverbeke et al.   International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation

Context-dependent vegetation dynamics in an African savanna

(2011) Shaun R. Levick et al.   LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY

Patterns and processes of global shrub expansion

(2011) Adam T. Naito et al.   PROGRESS IN PHYSICAL GEOGRAPHY

Endmember variability in Spectral Mixture Analysis: A review

(2011) Ben Somers et al.   REMOTE SENSING OF ENVIRONMENT

Measuring biomass changes due to woody encroachment and deforestation/degradation in a forest–savanna boundary region of central Africa using multi-temporal L-band radar backscatter

(2011) E.T.A. Mitchard et al.   REMOTE SENSING OF ENVIRONMENT

Remote sensing based shrub above-ground biomass and carbon storage mapping in Mu Us desert, China

(2011) Min Xu et al.   Science China-Technological Sciences

A comparison of multi-spectral, multi-angular, and multi-temporal remote sensing datasets for fractional shrub canopy mapping in Arctic Alaska

(2010) David J. Selkowitz   REMOTE SENSING OF ENVIRONMENT

Post-fire vegetation regrowth detection in the Deiva Marina region (Liguria-Italy) using Landsat TM and ETM+ data

(2009) José Pablo Solans Vila et al.   ECOLOGICAL MODELLING

Shrub encroachment can reverse desertification in semi-arid Mediterranean grasslands

(2009) Fernando T. Maestre et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Can kangaroo rat graminivory contribute to the persistence of desertified shrublands?

(2009) G.I.H. Kerley et al.   JOURNAL OF ARID ENVIRONMENTS

Causes and consequences of woody plant encroachment into western North American grasslands

(2009) O.W. Van Auken   JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT

Early-warning signals for critical transitions

(2009) Marten Scheffer et al.   NATURE

Detecting an Invasive Shrub in Deciduous Forest Understories Using Remote Sensing

(2009) Bryan N. Wilfong et al.   WEED SCIENCE

Spatial and temporal rates and patterns of mesquite (Prosopis species) invasion in Western Australia

(2007) T.P. Robinson et al.   JOURNAL OF ARID ENVIRONMENTS

Remote sensing of woody shrub cover in desert grasslands using MISR with a geometric-optical canopy reflectance model

(2007) M CHOPPING et al.   REMOTE SENSING OF ENVIRONMENT