Population growth and climate change: Addressing the overlooked threat multiplier

JC Dodson, P Dérer, P Cafaro, F Götmark - Science of the Total …, 2020 - Elsevier
Demographic trends will play a role in determining the magnitude of climate disruption and
the ability of societies to adapt to it. Yet policy makers largely ignore the potential of fertility …

A bibliometric review of vegetation response to climate change

GA Afuye, AM Kalumba, ET Busayo… - … Science and Pollution …, 2021 - Springer
Global assessment of vegetation response to climate change (VRCC) studies was
conducted to reveal the research evolution, current research hotspots and better …

The climate hazards infrared precipitation with stations—a new environmental record for monitoring extremes

C Funk, P Peterson, M Landsfeld, D Pedreros, J Verdin… - Scientific data, 2015 - nature.com
Abstract The Climate Hazards group Infrared Precipitation with Stations (CHIRPS) dataset
builds on previous approaches to 'smart'interpolation techniques and high resolution, long …

Reliability of vegetation resilience estimates depends on biomass density

T Smith, N Boers - Nature Ecology & Evolution, 2023 - nature.com
Concerns have been raised that the resilience of vegetated ecosystems may be negatively
impacted by ongoing anthropogenic climate and land-use change at the global scale …

Extreme wildlife declines and concurrent increase in livestock numbers in Kenya: What are the causes?

JO Ogutu, HP Piepho, MY Said, GO Ojwang, LW N**o… - PloS one, 2016 - journals.plos.org
There is growing evidence of escalating wildlife losses worldwide. Extreme wildlife losses
have recently been documented for large parts of Africa, including western, Central and …

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] Implications of land use/land cover dynamics and Prosopis invasion on ecosystem service values in Afar Region, Ethiopia

H Shiferaw, W Bewket, T Alamirew, G Zeleke… - Science of the total …, 2019 - Elsevier
Land use/land cover (LULC) dynamics and the resulting changes in ecosystems, as well as
the services they provide, are a consequence of human activities and environmental drivers …

Assessing multi-satellite remote sensing, reanalysis, and land surface models' products in characterizing agricultural drought in East Africa

NO Agutu, JL Awange, A Zerihun… - Remote sensing of …, 2017 - Elsevier
Abstract Heavy reliance of East Africa (EA) on rain-fed agriculture makes it vulnerable to
drought-induced famine. Yet, most research on EA drought focuses on meteorological …

[HTML][HTML] Assessment of NDVI variations in responses to climate change in the Horn of Africa

MG Ghebrezgabher, T Yang, X Yang… - The Egyptian Journal of …, 2020 - Elsevier
The variation of normalized difference vegetation index (NDVI) mainly depends on the
change of climatic factors (precipitation and temperature). This study is assessing and …

[HTML][HTML] Evaluation of multiple climate data sources for managing environmental resources in East Africa

SH Gebrechorkos, S Hülsmann… - Hydrology and Earth …, 2018 - hess.copernicus.org
Managing environmental resources under conditions of climate change and extreme climate
events remains among the most challenging research tasks in the field of sustainable …