Remote sensing of dryland ecosystem structure and function: Progress, challenges, and opportunities

WK Smith, MP Dannenberg, D Yan, S Herrmann… - Remote Sensing of …, 2019‏ - Elsevier
Drylands make up roughly 40% of the Earth's land surface, and billions of people depend on
services provided by these critically important ecosystems. Despite their relatively sparse …

Historical contingency in community assembly: integrating niches, species pools, and priority effects

T Fukami - Annual review of ecology, evolution, and systematics, 2015‏ - annualreviews.org
The order and timing of species immigration during community assembly can affect species
abundances at multiple spatial scales. Known as priority effects, these effects cause …

Functional traits—not nativeness—shape the effects of large mammalian herbivores on plant communities

EJ Lundgren, J Bergman, J Trepel, E le Roux… - Science, 2024‏ - science.org
Large mammalian herbivores (megafauna) have experienced extinctions and declines since
prehistory. Introduced megafauna have partly counteracted these losses yet are thought to …

[کتاب][B] Resilience practice: building capacity to absorb disturbance and maintain function

B Walker, D Salt - 2012‏ - books.google.com
In 2006, Resilience Thinking addressed an essential question: As the natural systems that
sustain us are subjected to shock after shock, how much can they take and still deliver the …

Scientific foundations for an IUCN Red List of Ecosystems

DA Keith, JP Rodríguez, KM Rodríguez-Clark… - PLOS …, 2013‏ - journals.plos.org
An understanding of risks to biodiversity is needed for planning action to slow current rates
of decline and secure ecosystem services for future human use. Although the IUCN Red List …

[کتاب][B] Political ecology: A critical introduction

P Robbins - 2019‏ - books.google.com
An accessible, focused exploration of the field of political ecology The third edition of
Political Ecology spans this sprawling field, using grounded examples and careful readings …

Resilience in ecology: Abstraction, distraction, or where the action is?

RJ Standish, RJ Hobbs, MM Mayfield… - Biological …, 2014‏ - Elsevier
Increasingly, the success of management interventions aimed at biodiversity conservation
are viewed as being dependent on the 'resilience'of the system. Although the term …

Resilience: The emergence of a perspective for social–ecological systems analyses

C Folke - Global environmental change, 2006‏ - Elsevier
The resilience perspective is increasingly used as an approach for understanding the
dynamics of social–ecological systems. This article presents the origin of the resilience …

Desertification, land use, and the transformation of global drylands

BT Bestelmeyer, GS Okin, MC Duniway… - Frontiers in Ecology …, 2015‏ - Wiley Online Library
Desertification is an escalating concern in global drylands, yet assessments to guide
management and policy responses are limited by ambiguity concerning the definition of …

Tree-grass interactions in savannas

RJ Scholes, SR Archer - Annual review of Ecology and …, 1997‏ - annualreviews.org
Savannas occur where trees and grasses interact to create a biome that is neither grassland
nor forest. Woody and gramineous plants interact by many mechanisms, some negative …