Desert microbes for boosting sustainable agriculture in extreme environments

W Alsharif, MM Saad, H Hirt - Frontiers in Microbiology, 2020 - frontiersin.org
A large portion of the earth's surface consists of arid, semi-arid and hyper-arid lands. Life in
these regions is profoundly challenged by harsh environmental conditions of water …

Long-term trend and correlation between vegetation greenness and climate variables in Asia based on satellite data

M Lamchin, WK Lee, SW Jeon, SW Wang… - Science of the Total …, 2018 - Elsevier
Satellite data has been used to ascertain trends and correlations between climate change
and vegetation greenness in Asia. Our study utilized 33-year (1982–2014) AVHRR-GIMMS …

Effects of deforestation on the onset of the rainy season and the duration of dry spells in southern Amazonia

AT Leite‐Filho, VY de Sousa Pontes… - Journal of Geophysical …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Amazonian deforestation is causing notable changes in the hydrological cycle by altering
important precipitation characteristics. This study uses daily rainfall time series data from …

Soil moisture map** from satellites: An intercomparison of SMAP, SMOS, FY3B, AMSR2, and ESA CCI over two dense network regions at different spatial scales

C Cui, J Xu, J Zeng, KS Chen, X Bai, H Lu, Q Chen… - Remote Sensing, 2017 - mdpi.com
A good knowledge of the quality of the satellite soil moisture products is of great importance
for their application and improvement. This paper examines the performance of eight …

A soil water based index as a suitable agricultural drought indicator

J Martínez-Fernández, A González-Zamora… - Journal of …, 2015 - Elsevier
Currently, the availability of soil water databases is increasing worldwide. The presence of a
growing number of long-term soil moisture networks around the world and the impressive …

Influence of vegetation recovery on soil hydrology and erodibility following fire: an 11-year investigation

A Cerdà, SH Doerr - International Journal of Wildland Fire, 2005 - CSIRO Publishing
The present study investigates long-term changes in soil hydrological properties and
erodibility during the regrowth of different types and densities of vegetation following a …

Assessing drought risk and irrigation need in northern Ethiopia

A Araya, L Stroosnijder - Agricultural and Forest meteorology, 2011 - Elsevier
Long-term climate data of four stations in the northern Ethiopia were analyzed in
combination with information from local farmers and documented materials. From this …

Changes in seasonal precipitation in the Iberian Peninsula during 1946–2005

M de Luis, M Brunetti, JC Gonzalez-Hidalgo… - Global and Planetary …, 2010 - Elsevier
The spatial variability of seasonal precipitation regimes in the Iberian Peninsula is
overlapped by complex patterns of temporal variability. Consequently, traditionally …

[PDF][PDF] A new tool for monthly precipitation analysis in Spain: MOPREDAS database (monthly precipitation trends December 1945–November 2005)

JC González‐Hidalgo, M Brunetti… - International Journal of …, 2011 - researchgate.net
A new monthly precipitation database has been developed for conterminous provinces in
Spain by exploiting the total amount of data available at Spanish Meteorological Agency …

[PDF][PDF] Spatial distribution of recent rainfall trends in Spain (1961–2006)

S del Río, L Herrero, R Fraile, A Penas - International Journal of …, 2011 - academia.edu
Annual, seasonal and monthly rainfall trends from 1961 to 2006 period were analysed in this
study by applying various statistical tools to data from 553 Spanish weather stations. The …