Urbanisation is a global trend resulting in more people living in cities. This has led to
changes in urban morphology and microclimates explained by the urban heat island (UHI) …

Grassland ecosystem is one of the largest ecosystems, which naturally occurs on all
continents excluding Antarctica and provides both ecological and economic functions. The …

Biological soil crust communities (biocrusts) play an important role in surface hydrologic
processes in dryland ecosystems and can be dramatically altered with soil surface …

Differences in ecological sites, and sometimes ecological states, are ultimately due to
differences in soil properties and processes within a climatic zone. Soil properties are …

Assessing land use land cover changes in forested regions reflect the extent of
anthropogenic pressure, ecosystem degradation and their impact on local wellbeing. The …

Context Combining field-based assessments with remote-sensing proxies of landscape
patterns provides the opportunity to monitor terrestrial ecosystem health status in support of …

A new disturbance automated reference toolset (DART) was developed to monitor human
land surface impacts using soil-type and ecological context. DART identifies reference areas …

Structure-from-motion (SfM) photogrammetry from unmanned aerial system (UAS) imagery
is an emerging tool for repeat topographic surveying of dryland erosion. These methods are …

The extent of roads and other forms of linear infrastructure is burgeoning worldwide, but their
impacts are inadequately understood and thus poorly mitigated. Previous studies have …

Dryland ecosystems cover over 41% of the earth's land surface, and living within these
important ecosystems are approximately 2 billion people, a large proportion of whom are …