Spatiotemporal variability of drought and affected croplands in the horn of Africa

AA Alasow, MM Hamed, S Shahid - Stochastic Environmental Research …, 2024 - Springer
Abstract The Horn of Africa (HOA) is frequently plagued by severe droughts, significantly
affecting food security, particularly in less developed and rapidly population-growing …

Responses of ecosystem water use efficiency to drought in the Lancang–Mekong River Basin

X Luo, Y Wang, Y Li - Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2023 - frontiersin.org
The ecosystem water use efficiency (WUE), a crucial indicator of how climate change will
affect terrestrial ecosystems, depicts the coupling of the carbon gain and water loss in …

Identifying the responses of vegetation gross primary productivity and water use efficiency to climate change under different aridity gradients across China

X Li, L Zou, J **a, F Wang, H Li - Remote Sensing, 2023 - mdpi.com
Despite the fact that gross primary productivity (GPP) and water use efficiency (WUE) have
been widely used as indicators to evaluate the water-carbon cycle, uncertainties exist in the …

A framework for managing infectious diseases in rural areas in low-and middle-income countries in the face of climate change—East Africa as a case study

KEL Worsley-Tonks, S Angwenyi… - PLOS global public …, 2025 - journals.plos.org
Climate change is having unprecedented impacts on human health, including increasing
infectious disease risk. Despite this, health systems across the world are currently not …

Dynamic change of vegetation index and its influencing factors in alxa league in the arid area

P Zhou, D Zhao, X Liu, L Duo, BJ He - Frontiers in Ecology and …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
While there have been various studies on global vegetation dynamics, limited studies have
been conducted to understand vegetation changes in arid areas. Vegetation distribution …

Responses to the impact of drought on carbon and water use efficiency in Inner Mongolia

G Cheng, T Liu, S Wang, Y Wu, C Zhang - Land, 2023 - mdpi.com
The dynamics of plants' carbon and water use efficiency and their responses to drought are
crucial to the sustainable development of arid and semi-arid environments. This study used …

Quantifying the contributions of climatic and human factors to vegetation net primary productivity dynamics in East Africa

M Xu, Z Zhang, Y Wang, B Liu - Frontiers in Forests and Global …, 2024 - frontiersin.org
As an important part of the terrestrial ecosystem, vegetation dynamics are subject to impacts
from both climate change and human activities. Clarifying the driving mechanisms of …

Vegetation response to climate and climatic extremes in northwest Bangladesh: a quantile regression approach

MA Uddin, ASMM Kamal, S Shahid - Theoretical and Applied Climatology, 2022 - Springer
The present study assessed the vegetation response to climate in the water-stressed
northwest Bangladesh (NWB). The quantile regression analysis was employed to evaluate …

Assessment of observed changes in drought characteristics and recent vegetation dynamics over arid and semiarid areas in Sudan

MAA Alriah, S Bi, A Nkunzimana, AM Elameen… - Theoretical and Applied …, 2024 - Springer
Over the past decades, drought has been considered as one of the most catastrophic natural
disasters due to the devastating implications associated with this phenomenon. This …

Can remote sensing enable a Biomass Climate Adaptation Index for agricultural systems?

A Ferguson, C Murray, Y Mesfin Tessema… - Frontiers in …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Systematic tools and approaches for measuring climate change adaptation at multiple
scales of spatial resolution are lacking, limiting measurement of progress toward the …