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Resource Selection by Sheep and Goats in Queensland Australia Open

Caroline Wade, Mark Trotter, C. M. Steele, Lara Prihodko, Derek W. Bailey · 2025

Interactions between the Environment and Plant Functional Type Control Global Maximum Forest Height Open

Jingyu Dai, Michael G. Ryan, Qiuyan Yu, Guangdao Bao, Lara Prihodko , et al. · 2025

Changing Climate, Changing Fire: Understanding Ecosystem-Specific Fire–Climate Dynamics in Arizona and New Mexico Open

Michael A. Crimmins, Hatim M. E. Geli, Christina Greene, M. D. Meko, Lara Prihodko · 2025

Wildfire activity in the southwestern United States has intensified in recent decades, driven by the complex interactions of climatic variability, vegetation patterns, and human impacts. This study examines wildfire dynamics in Arizona and…

Carbon sequestration through sustainable land management practices in arid and semiarid regions: Insights from New Mexico Open

Rajan Ghimire, Deb Raj Aryal, Niall P. Hanan, Sawssan Boufous, Owen T. Burney , et al. · 2024

Arid and semiarid regions cover more than one‐third of the land surface, where the interplay between water, land use, and management strongly influences carbon (C) sequestration. Yet, information on the C management practices and how local…

Corrigendum: Assessing canopy height measurements from ICESat-2 and GEDI orbiting LiDAR across six different biomes with G-LiHT LiDAR (2024 Environ. Res.: Ecology 3 025001) Open

Qiuyan Yu, Michael G. Ryan, Wenjie Ji, Lara Prihodko, J. Anchang , et al. · 2024

Assessing canopy height measurements from ICESat-2 and GEDI orbiting LiDAR across six different biomes with G-LiHT LiDAR Open

Qiuyan Yu, Michael G. Ryan, Wenjie Ji, Lara Prihodko, J. Anchang , et al. · 2024

The height of woody plants is a defining characteristic of forest and shrubland ecosystems because height responds to climate, soil and disturbance history. Orbiting LiDAR instruments, Ice, Cloud and land Elevation Satellite-2 (ICESat-2) a…

Use of Global Positioning System Tracking to Assess Landscape Distribution in Extensive Small Ruminant Operations Open

Caroline Wade, Mark Trotter, Anita Chang, C. M. Steele, Lara Prihodko , et al. · 2024

Landscape distribution and grazing management of small ruminants are becoming more important issues as the sheep and goat industry continues to grow. The objective of this study was to evaluate spatial movement patterns of sheep and goats …

Satellite-based woody canopy cover for Africa: Uncovering bias and recovering best estimates across years Open

M. N. Kahiu, J. Anchang, Lara Prihodko, Qiuyan Yu, Niall P. Hanan · 2024

Woody plants in both forested and non-forested areas are vital for carbon storage, climate change mitigation, biodiversity conservation, and provision of ecosystem services. Accurate mapping of woody cover (WC) is crucial for understanding…

Study becomes insight: Ecological learning from machine learning Open

Qiuyan Yu, Wenjie Ji, Lara Prihodko, C. Wade Ross, J. Anchang , et al. · 2021

The ecological and environmental science communities have embraced machine learning (ML) for empirical modelling and prediction. However, going beyond prediction to draw insights into underlying functional relationships between response va…

Author response for "Study becomes insight: Ecological learning from machine learning" Open

Qiuyan Yu, Wenjie Ji, Lara Prihodko, C. Wade Ross, J. Anchang , et al. · 2021

Woody-biomass projections and drivers of change in sub-Saharan Africa Open

C. Wade Ross, Niall P. Hanan, Lara Prihodko, J. Anchang, Wenjie Ji , et al. · 2021

Ji et al 2021 Journal of Ecology - Woody Cover Change and Reference list Open

Wenjie Ji, Niall P. Hanan, Qiuyan Yu, R. J. Fensham, R Rohde , et al. · 2021

Reference list and woody cover change in global savannas and drylands.

Short-Term Dry Season Forage Monitoring in Rangelands and Savannas of West Africa Open

J. Anchang, C. W. Ross, Wen Ji, Qi Yu, B. M. Lind , et al. · 2021

Dry season plant biomass is critical for livestock production and hence livelihoods in rangeland communities. We have developed a cloud-based application that employs remote sensing data to provide weekly spatially explicit information on …

Prediction maps: Woody-biomass projections and drivers of change in sub-Saharan Africa Open

C. Wade Ross, Niall P. Hanan, Lara Prihodko · 2021

Biomass prediction maps, where: biomass_baseline.tif corresponds to the contemporary biomass predictions.biomass_AI45.tif corresponds to biomass projections to the end of the century under RCP 4.5.biomass_AI45_BA.tif corresponds to biomass…

Remotely sensed thermal decay rate: an index for vegetation monitoring Open

Sanath Kumar, Lara Prihodko, B. M. Lind, J. Anchang, Wenjie Ji , et al. · 2020

Gridded Estimates of Woody Cover and Biomass across Sub-Saharan Africa, 2000-2004 Open

Niall P. Hanan, Lara Prihodko, C. Wade Ross, Gabriela Bucini, Andrew T. Tredennick · 2020

This dataset provides maps of woody (tree and shrub) cover and biomass across Sub-Saharan Africa at a resolution of 1 km for the period 2000-2004. Canopy cover observations and remote-sensing data related to woody vegetation were used to p…

Woody and Herbaceous Vegetation Change across the Savannas of West Africa, 1982-2013 Open

J. Anchang, Lara Prihodko, Armel Kaptué, C. W. Ross, Wang Ji , et al. · 2020

The WAVeTrends dataset is a 0.05 degree (5.55 km) vegetation change product, spanning the West African Sudano-Sahel region. It provides pixel-wise information on concurrent woody and herbaceous vegetation trends over a 32-year period (1982…

Toward Operational Mapping of Woody Canopy Cover in Tropical Savannas Using Google Earth Engine Open

J. Anchang, Lara Prihodko, Wenjie Ji, Sanath Kumar, C. Wade Ross , et al. · 2020

Savanna woody plants can store significant amounts of carbon while also providing numerous other ecological and socio-economic benefits. However, they are significantly under-represented in widely used tree cover datasets, due to mapping c…

Alternative Vegetation States in Tropical Forests and Savannas: The Search for Consistent Signals in Diverse Remote Sensing Data Open

Sanath Kumar, Niall P. Hanan, Lara Prihodko, J. Anchang, C. Wade Ross , et al. · 2019

Globally, the spatial distribution of vegetation is governed primarily by climatological factors (rainfall and temperature, seasonality, and inter-annual variability). The local distribution of vegetation, however, depends on local edaphic…

Trends in Woody and Herbaceous Vegetation in the Savannas of West Africa Open

J. Anchang, Lara Prihodko, Armel Kaptué, C. Wade Ross, Wenjie Ji , et al. · 2019

We assess 32 years of vegetation change in the West African Sudano-Sahelian region following the drought events of the 1970s and 1980s. Change in decadal mean rain use efficiency is used to diagnose trends in woody vegetation that is expec…

Author Correction: HYSOGs250m, global gridded hydrologic soil groups for curve-number-based runoff modeling Open

C. Wade Ross, Lara Prihodko, J. Anchang, Sanath Kumar, Wenjie Ji , et al. · 2019

Constraints on shrub cover and shrub–shrub competition in a U.S. southwest desert Open

Wenjie Ji, Niall P. Hanan, Dawn M. Browning, H. Curtis Monger, Debra P. C. Peters , et al. · 2019

The cover of woody perennial plants (trees and shrubs) in arid ecosystems is at least partially constrained by water availability. However, the extent to which maximum canopy cover is limited by rainfall and the degree to which soil water …

Shining a New Light on Elmer Ottis Wooton’s Legacy Herbarium and Historical Archive: an Exercise to Increase Student Participation while Promoting Public Engagement Open

Sara Fuentes‐Soriano, Lara Prihodko, Mitchell Manford, Zachary S. Rogers · 2018

Elmer Ottis Wooton (1865–1945) was one of the most important early botanists to work in the Southwestern United States, contributing a great deal of natural history knowledge and botanical research on the flora of New Mexico that shaped ma…

HYSOGs250m, global gridded hydrologic soil groups for curve-number-based runoff modeling Open

C. Wade Ross, Lara Prihodko, J. Anchang, Sanath Kumar, Wenjie Ji , et al. · 2018

Global Hydrologic Soil Groups (HYSOGs250m) for Curve Number-Based Runoff Modeling Open

C. Wade Ross, Lara Prihodko, J. Anchang, Sudhir Kumar, Ji Wang , et al. · 2018

This dataset - HYSOGs250m - represents a globally consistent, gridded dataset of hydrologic soil groups (HSGs) with a geographical resolution of 1/480 decimal degrees, corresponding to a projected resolution of approximately 250-m. These d…

On regreening and degradation in Sahelian watersheds Open

Armel Kaptué, Lara Prihodko, Niall P. Hanan · 2015

Significance For decades, the science and policy narrative relating to the West African Sahel has focused on perceptions of overgrazing and human-induced desertification. More recent reports of regional-scale recovery (“regreening”) follow…

Analysis of stable states in global savannas – a response to Staver and <span>H</span>ansen Open

Niall P. Hanan, Andrew T. Tredennick, Lara Prihodko, Gabriela Bucini, Justin Dohn · 2015

S taver & H ansen (2015, G lobal E cology and B iogeography , doi: 10.1111/geb.12285) comment on our recent paper ( H anan et al ., G lobal E cology and B iogeography , 2014, 23 , 259–263) in which we argue that classification and regressi…

Spatio-temporal Characteristics of Rainfall in Africa, 0.25 degrees, from 1998-2012 Open

Armel Kaptué, N. Hanan, Lara Prihodko, J. A. Ramirez · 2015

This data set describes rainfall distribution statistics over the African continent, including Madagascar. The rainfall estimates are based on data from the NASA Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) measured between 1998 and 2012. Ra…

Location and Permanency of Water Bodies in the African Sahel Region from 2003-2011 Open

Armel Kaptué, Niall P. Hanan, Lara Prihodko · 2015

This data set provides an estimate of the spatial and temporal extent of surface water at 250-m resolution over nine years (2003-2011) for the African Sahel region (10-20 degrees N) using imagery from the Moderate-resolution Imaging Spectr…

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