A review of the application of optical and radar remote sensing data fusion to land use map** and monitoring

N Joshi, M Baumann, A Ehammer, R Fensholt… - Remote Sensing, 2016 - mdpi.com
The wealth of complementary data available from remote sensing missions can hugely aid
efforts towards accurately determining land use and quantifying subtle changes in land use …

Grassy ecosystems in the Anthropocene

N Stevens, W Bond, A Feurdean… - Annual Review of …, 2022 - annualreviews.org
As the Anthropocene advances, there are few parts of Earth that have not been impacted by
human influence. Humans have had a long-sustained interaction with grassy ecosystems …

[PDF][PDF] Climate change 2022: Impacts, adaptation and vulnerability

C Parmesan, MD Morecroft, Y Trisurat - 2022 - hal.science
Chapter 2, building on prior assessments1, provides a global assessment of the observed
impacts and projected risks of climate change to terrestrial and freshwater ecosystems …

Terrestrial and freshwater ecosystems and their services

C Parmesan, MD Morecroft, Y Trisurat, R Adrian… - 2023 - ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk
Chapter 2, building on prior assessments, provides a global assessment of the observed
impacts and projected risks of climate change to terrestrial and freshwater ecosystems …

Savanna woody encroachment is widespread across three continents

N Stevens, CER Lehmann, BP Murphy… - Global change …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Tropical savannas are a globally extensive biome prone to rapid vegetation change in
response to changing environmental conditions. Via a meta‐analysis, we quantified …

Drivers of woody plant encroachment over Africa

ZS Venter, MD Cramer, HJ Hawkins - Nature communications, 2018 - nature.com
While global deforestation induced by human land use has been quantified, the drivers and
extent of simultaneous woody plant encroachment (WPE) into open areas are only …

[BOG][B] Open ecosystems: ecology and evolution beyond the forest edge

WJ Bond - 2019 - books.google.com
This book explores the geography, ecology, and antiquity of'open ecosystems', which
include grasslands, savannas, and shrublands. They occur in climates that can support …

Desertification

A Mirzabaev, J Wu, J Evans, F García-Oliva… - 2019 - philpapers.org
Abstract IPCC SPECIAL REPORT ON CLIMATE CHANGE AND LAND (SRCCL) Chapter 3:
Climate Change and Land: An IPCC special report on climate change, desertification, land …

[HTML][HTML] An above-ground biomass map of African savannahs and woodlands at 25 m resolution derived from ALOS PALSAR

A Bouvet, S Mermoz, T Le Toan, L Villard… - Remote sensing of …, 2018 - Elsevier
Savannahs and woodlands are among the most important biomes in Africa: they cover half
of sub-Saharan Africa, provide vital ecosystem services to the rural communities, and play a …

Many shades of green: the dynamic tropical forest–savannah transition zones

I Oliveras, Y Malhi - … Transactions of the Royal Society B …, 2016 - royalsocietypublishing.org
The forest–savannah transition is the most widespread ecotone in tropical areas, separating
two of the most productive terrestrial ecosystems. Here, we review current understanding of …