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Climate and Management Practices Jointly Control Vegetation Phenology in Nati...
Climate, human disturbances, and management practices jointly control the spatial and temporal patterns of land surface phenology. However, most studies solely focus on... -
Cooling Effects of Increased Green Fodder Area on Native Grassland in the Nor...
With increasing livestock production due to high demand for consumption, the planted area of green fodder, an essential livestock supplement, has grown rapidly and will continue... -
Biophysical Effects of Paddy Rice Expansion on Land Surface Temperature in No...
The pending extensive rice expansion in northeastern Asia, especially in northeast China, affects regional climate by altering both biogeochemical and biophysical processes.... -
Flash Drought Identification from Satellite-Based Land Surface Water Index
Flash droughts can lead to significant agricultural and ecosystem impacts via rapid land surface desiccation. While gridded weather and climate datasets, land surface models, or... -
Differential responses of native and managed prairie pastures to environmenta...
Future weather and climates, especially rainfall, are expected to have larger variability in the Southern Plains of the United States. However, the degree and timing of... -
Inspecting the Food–Water Nexus in the Ogallala Aquifer Region Using Satellit...
Agricultural production in the Great Plains provides a significant amount of food for the United States while contributing greatly to farm income in the region. However,... -
Grassland Wildfires in the Southern Great Plains: Monitoring Ecological Impac...
Devastating wildfires in Texas, Oklahoma, and Kansas in 2016 and 2017 resulted in significant social, economic, and environmental losses, with the agricultural sector among... -
Integrating eddy fluxes and remote sensing products in a rotational grazing n...
Eddy covariance (EC) systems provide integrated fluxes within their footprint areas. Spatial heterogeneity of up-scaled areas and spatio-temporal mismatches between EC footprint...