Woody plant encroachment of grasslands: a comparison of terrestrial and wetland settings

N Saintilan, K Rogers - New Phytologist, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
A global trend of woody plant encroachment of terrestrial grasslands is co‐incident with
woody plant encroachment of wetland in freshwater and saline intertidal settings. There are …

Responses of coastal ecosystems to climate change: Insights from long-term ecological research

DC Reed, RJ Schmitt, AB Burd, DE Burkepile… - …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
abstract Coastal ecosystems play a disproportionately large role in society, and climate
change is altering their ecological structure and function, as well as their highly valued …

Cross–scale interactions and changing pattern–process relationships: consequences for system dynamics

DPC Peters, BT Bestelmeyer, MG Turner - Ecosystems, 2007 - Springer
Cross–scale interactions refer to processes at one spatial or temporal scale interacting with
processes at another scale to result in nonlinear dynamics with thresholds. These …

Barrier island bistability induced by biophysical interactions

O Durán Vinent, LJ Moore - Nature Climate Change, 2015 - nature.com
Barrier islands represent about 10% of the world's coastline, sustain rich ecosystems, host
valuable infrastructure and protect mainland coasts from storms. Future climate-change …

NDVI as an indicator for changes in water availability to woody vegetation

C Aguilar, JC Zinnert, MJ Polo, DR Young - Ecological Indicators, 2012 - Elsevier
Barrier islands shrub thickets, the dominant woody community of many Atlantic coast barrier
islands, are very sensitive to changes in the freshwater lens and thus, constitute a strong …

Application of hyperspectral vegetation indices to detect variations in high leaf area index temperate shrub thicket canopies

ST Brantley, JC Zinnert, DR Young - Remote Sensing of Environment, 2011 - Elsevier
Accurate measurement of leaf area index (LAI), an important characteristic of plant canopies
directly linked to primary production, is essential for monitoring changes in ecosystem C …

Crossing scales: The complexity of barrier-island processes for predicting future change

JC Zinnert, JA Stallins, ST Brantley, DR Young - BioScience, 2017 - academic.oup.com
Barrier islands are heavily influenced by external drivers such as sea-level rise, storm-
related disturbances, and other complex factors that affect net sediment exchange …

Effects of sea‐level rise on barrier island groundwater system dynamics–ecohydrological implications

JP Masterson, MN Fienen, ER Thieler, DB Gesch… - …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
We used a numerical model to investigate how a barrier island groundwater system
responds to increases of up to 60 cm in sea level. We found that a sea‐level rise of 20 cm …

Connectivity in coastal systems: Barrier island vegetation influences upland migration in a changing climate

JC Zinnert, SM Via, BP Nettleton, PA Tuley… - Global Change …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Due to their position at the land–sea interface, barrier islands are vulnerable to both oceanic
and atmospheric climate change‐related drivers. In response to relative sea‐level rise …

Accessible ecology: synthesis of the long, deep, and broad

DPC Peters - Trends in ecology & evolution, 2010 - cell.com
Large volumes of data have been collected to document the many ways that ecological
systems are responding to changing environmental drivers. A general buy-in on solutions to …