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Influence of soil physical interventions on root architecture and nutrient cycling in fruit crops Open

Ranjeet John, Menlikulov Pr, S. Simi · 2025

Supplementary material to "Spatiotemporal mapping of invasive yellow sweetclover blooms using Sentinel-2 and high-resolution drone imagery" Open

Sakshi Saraf, Ranjeet John, Venkatesh Kolluru, Khushboo Jain, Geoffrey M. Henebry , et al. · 2025

Spatiotemporal mapping of invasive yellow sweetclover blooms using Sentinel-2 and high-resolution drone imagery Open

Sakshi Saraf, Ranjeet John, Venkatesh Kolluru, Khushboo Jain, Geoffrey M. Henebry , et al. · 2025

Yellow sweetclover (Melilotus officinalis (L.) Lam.; MEOF) is an invasive forb pervasive across the Northern Great Plains, often linked to traits such as wide adaptability, strong stress tolerance, and high productivity. Despite MEOF's pre…

Identifying opportunities for nature-based solutions with geospatialized life cycle assessments and fine-scale socioecological data Open

Gabriela Shirkey, Annick Anctil, Ranjeet John, Venkatesh Kolluru, Leah M. Mungai , et al. · 2024

As we increasingly understand the impact that land management intensification has on local and global climate, the call for nature-based solutions (NbS) in agroecosystems has expanded. Moreover, the pressing need to determine when and wher…

Natural assets, changes, and variations of the socioeconomic-environmental systems along the Asian drylands belt Open

Jiquan Chen, Ranjeet John, Venkatesh Kolluru, Elizabeth A. Mack, Peilei Fan , et al. · 2024

The amount of and changes in a country’s natural assets are crucial for developing national strategic plans and policies due to their foundational role in determining the resilience of social-environmental systems (SES), especially under a…

Dominant role of grazing and snow cover variability on vegetation shifts in the drylands of Kazakhstan Open

Venkatesh Kolluru, Ranjeet John, Jiquan Chen, Preethi Konkathi, K. Srinivas , et al. · 2024

Decomposing the responses of ecosystem structure and function in drylands to changes in human-environmental forcing is a pressing challenge. Though trend detection studies are extensive, these studies often fail to attribute them to potent…

Monitoring the Spatial Distribution of Cover Crops and Tillage Practices Using Machine Learning and Environmental Drivers across Eastern South Dakota Open

Khushboo Jain, Ranjeet John, Nathan Torbick, Venkatesh Kolluru, Sakshi Saraf , et al. · 2024

The adoption of conservation agriculture methods, such as conservation tillage and cover cropping, is a viable alternative to conventional farming practices for improving soil health and reducing soil carbon losses. Despite their significa…

Gridded livestock density database and spatial trends for Kazakhstan Open

Venkatesh Kolluru, Ranjeet John, Sakshi Saraf, Jiquan Chen, Brett Hankerson , et al. · 2023

Biophysical drivers for predicting the distribution and abundance of invasive yellow sweetclover in the Northern Great Plains Open

Sakshi Saraf, Ranjeet John, Reza Goljani Amirkhiz, Venkatesh Kolluru, Khushboo Jain , et al. · 2023

A Bayesian approach for multiscale modeling of the influence of seasonal and annual habitat variation on relative abundance of ring-necked pheasant roosters Open

Reza Goljani Amirkhiz, Ranjeet John, David L. Swanson · 2023

Finding ecologically relevant relationships between environmental covariates and response variables requires determining appropriate scales of effect. While considering multiple spatial scales of effect in hierarchical models has been the …

<strong>Gridded livestock density database and spatial trends for Kazakhstan</strong> Open

Venkatesh Kolluru, Ranjeet John, Sakshi Saraf, Jiquan Chen, Brett Hankerson , et al. · 2023

We developed gridded livestock (horses and small ruminants, i.e., sheep & goats) density maps at high-resolution (1 km) for Kazakhstan during 2000-2019 using vegetation proxies, climatic, socioeconomic, topographic, and proximity forcing v…

A Bayesian approach for multiscale modeling of the influence of seasonal and annual habitat variation on relative abundance of ring-necked pheasant roosters Open

Reza Goljani Amirkhiz, David L. Swanson, Ranjeet John · 2023

These codes and data are relevant to the paper titled "A Bayesian approach for multiscale modeling of the influence of seasonal and annual habitat variation on relative abundance of ring-necked pheasant roosters". Codes will run RJMCMC sim…

Fine resolution remote sensing spectra improves estimates of gross primary production of croplands Open

Gabriela Shirkey, Ranjeet John, Jiquan Chen, Kyla M. Dahlin, Michael Abraha , et al. · 2022

Untangling the impacts of socioeconomic and climatic changes on vegetation greenness and productivity in Kazakhstan Open

Venkatesh Kolluru, Ranjeet John, Jiquan Chen, Meghann Jarchow, Reza Goljani Amirkhiz , et al. · 2022

Studies examining the joint interactions and impacts of social-environmental system (SES) drivers on vegetation dynamics in Central Asia are scarce. We investigated seasonal trends and anomalies in drivers and their impacts on ecosystem st…

Optimal ranges of social-environmental drivers and their impacts on vegetation dynamics in Kazakhstan Open

Venkatesh Kolluru, Ranjeet John, Jiquan Chen, Jingfeng Xiao, Reza Goljani Amirkhiz , et al. · 2022

Albedo changes caused by future urbanization contribute to global warming Open

Zutao Ouyang, Pietro Sciusco, Tong Jiao, Sarah Féron, Cheyenne Lei , et al. · 2022

Land Use Hotspots of the Two Largest Landlocked Countries: Kazakhstan and Mongolia Open

Jing Yuan, Jiquan Chen, Pietro Sciusco, Venkatesh Kolluru, Sakshi Saraf , et al. · 2022

As the two largest landlocked countries, Kazakhstan and Mongolia have similar biophysical conditions and socioeconomic roots in the former Soviet Union. Our objective is to investigate the direction, extent, and spatial variation of land c…

Sustainability challenges for the social-environmental systems across the Asian Drylands Belt Open

Jiquan Chen, Ranjeet John, Jing Yuan, Elizabeth A. Mack, Pavel Groisman , et al. · 2021

This paper synthesizes the contemporary challenges for the sustainability of the social-environmental system (SES) across a geographically, environmentally, and geopolitically diverse region—the Asian Drylands Belt (ADB). This region inclu…

Towards a Single Integrative Metric on the Dynamics of Social-Environmental Systems Open

Jiquan Chen, Ranjeet John, Changliang Shao, Zutao Ouyang, Elizabeth A. Mack , et al. · 2021

Integrating the dynamics and interconnections of natural and human system properties into a single measure would make it simpler to reliably and repeatedly assess and compare different social-environmental systems (SES). We propose a novel…

Effect of Different Organic Manures on the Growth and Yield of Water melon (Citrullus Ianatus) Open

U. U. Emeghara, O. Olukotun, O. E. Olagunju, Ranjeet John, Bankole Oni , et al. · 2020

Field experimental trials were carried out at Federal College of Forestry Mechanization, Afaka. Kaduna located between latitude 100 35”N and longitude 07°21”E at altitude 644m above sea level to compare the effect of different application …

Costs and Returns Analysis of Maize Production in Lere Local Government Area of Kaduna State, Nigeria Open

U. F. Yahaya, U. U. Emeghara, N. E. Onwuegbunam, Ranjeet John, O. E. Olagunju , et al. · 2020

This study was carried out to estimate costs and returns associated with maize production in Lere local government area of Kaduna state. Data were collected from a sample of 100 maize farmers selected through multi-stage sampling procedure…

Analysis of Environmental Factors Determining the Adoption of Land Management Practices in Guinea Savanna Agro-Ecological Zone of Kaduna Using Principal Component Analysis (PCA) Open

T. A. Awobona, J. O. Adedapo, J. O. Emmanuel, O. Osunsina, J. A. Ogunsanwo , et al. · 2020

This study analyzed the various determinants of land management practices in Chikun LGA of Kaduna State and determined most sustainable practice(s), with the specific focus on: Socio-economic characteristics of farmers; types of land manag…

Resource Use Efficiency among Maize Farmers in Lere Local Government Area of Kaduna State, Nigeria Open

O. S. Aasa, R. Suleiman, U. U. Emeghara, U. F. Yahaya, O. E. Olagunju , et al. · 2020

This study was carried out to analyzed the resource-use efficiency of maize production in Lere local government area of Kaduna state. Data were collected from a sample of 100 maize farmers selected through multi-stage sampling procedure us…

Spatiotemporal variations of albedo in managed agricultural landscapes: inferences to global warming impacts (GWI) Open

Pietro Sciusco, Jiquan Chen, Michael Abraha, Cheyenne Lei, G. Philip Robertson , et al. · 2020

Linear downscaling from MODIS to landsat: connecting landscape composition with ecosystem functions Open

Jiquan Chen, Pietro Sciusco, Zutao Ouyang, Rong Zhang, Geoffrey M. Henebry , et al. · 2019

Prospects for the sustainability of social-ecological systems (SES) on the Mongolian plateau: five critical issues Open

Jiquan Chen, Ranjeet John, Ge Sun, Peilei Fan, Geoffrey M. Henebry , et al. · 2018

The Mongolian Plateau hosts two different governments: the Mongolian People's Republic and the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, a provincial-level government of the People's Republic of China. The divergence between these governments has …

Dryland belt of Northern Eurasia: contemporary environmental changes and their consequences Open

Pavel Groisman, Olga Bulygina, Geoffrey M. Henebry, N. A. Speranskaya, A. I. Shiklomanov , et al. · 2018

The dryland belt (DLB) in Northern Eurasia is the largest contiguous dryland on Earth. During the last century, changes here have included land use change (e.g. expansion of croplands and cities), resource extraction (e.g. coal, ores, oil,…

Understanding livestock production and sustainability of grassland ecosystems in the Asian Dryland Belt Open

Jiaguo Qi, Xiaoping Xin, Ranjeet John, Pavel Groisman, Jiquan Chen · 2017

Companioned by economic development, a dietary shift toward higher meat consumption is seen in developing countries and transitional economies, where the demand for livestock production has been increasing in response to such a dietary shi…

Fluxes all of the time? A primer on the temporal representativeness of FLUXNET Open

Housen Chu, Dennis Baldocchi, Ranjeet John, Sebastian Wolf, Markus Reichstein · 2017

FLUXNET, the global network of eddy covariance flux towers, provides the largest synthesized data set of CO 2 , H 2 O, and energy fluxes. To achieve the ultimate goal of providing flux information “everywhere and all of the time,” studies …

The Effect of Algal Blooms on Carbon Emissions in Western Lake Erie: An Integration of Remote Sensing and Eddy Covariance Measurements Open

Zutao Ouyang, Changliang Shao, Housen Chu, R. H. Becker, Thomas B. Bridgeman , et al. · 2017

Lakes are important components for regulating carbon cycling within landscapes. Most lakes are regarded as CO2 sources to the atmosphere, except for a few eutrophic ones. Algal blooms are common phenomena in many eutrophic lakes and can ca…

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