Assessing Land Degradation/Recovery in the African Sahel from Long-Term Earth Observation Based Primary Productivity and Precipitation Relationships

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

(2012) Jan C. Ruppert et al.   JOURNAL OF VEGETATION SCIENCE

Greenness in semi-arid areas across the globe 1981–2007 — an Earth Observing Satellite based analysis of trends and drivers

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

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

Water availability as the driver of vegetation dynamics in the African Sahel from 1982 to 2007

(2011) Silvia Huber et al.   GLOBAL AND PLANETARY CHANGE

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

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

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

Precipitation-use efficiency along a 4500-km grassland transect

(2010) Hu Zhongmin et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

Analysis of monotonic greening and browning trends from global NDVI time-series

(2010) Rogier de Jong et al.   REMOTE SENSING OF ENVIRONMENT

Analysis of trends in the Sahelian ‘rain-use efficiency’ using GIMMS NDVI, RFE and GPCP rainfall data

(2010) Rasmus Fensholt et al.   REMOTE SENSING OF ENVIRONMENT

Debating the greening vs. browning of the North American boreal forest: differences between satellite datasets

(2009) DOMINGO ALCARAZ-SEGURA et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Regional desertification: A global synthesis

(2008) Ulf Helldén et al.   GLOBAL AND PLANETARY CHANGE

Sahelian rangeland response to changes in rainfall over two decades in the Gourma region, Mali

(2008) Pierre Hiernaux et al.   JOURNAL OF HYDROLOGY

Recent trends in the Central and Western Sahel rainfall regime (1990–2007)

(2008) Thierry Lebel et al.   JOURNAL OF HYDROLOGY

Proxy global assessment of land degradation

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