Quantifying western US rangelands as fractional components with multi-resolution remote sensing and in situ data

M Rigge, C Homer, L Cleeves, DK Meyer, B Bunde… - Remote Sensing, 2020 - mdpi.com
Quantifying western US rangelands as a series of fractional components with remote
sensing provides a new way to understand these changing ecosystems. Nine rangeland …

Wildfire and the ecological niche: Diminishing habitat suitability for an indicator species within semi‐arid ecosystems

ST O'Neil, PS Coates, BE Brussee… - Global Change …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Globally accelerating frequency and extent of wildfire threatens the persistence of specialist
wildlife species through direct loss of habitat and indirect facilitation of exotic invasive …

Normalized difference vegetation index as the dominant predicting factor of groundwater recharge in phreatic aquifers: case studies across Iran

E Parizi, SM Hosseini, B Ataie-Ashtiani… - Scientific Reports, 2020 - nature.com
The estimation of long-term groundwater recharge rate (GW r) is a pre-requisite for efficient
management of groundwater resources, especially for arid and semi-arid regions. Precise …

Linkage of geographically weighted regression with spatial cluster analyses for regionalization of flood peak discharges drivers: Case studies across Iran

E Parizi, M Bagheri-Gavkosh, SM Hosseini… - Journal of Cleaner …, 2021 - Elsevier
Iran has experienced very destructive flooding events with significant socio-economic and
environmental consequences over the last years. Identifying and analyzing the driving …

Long‐term trajectories of fractional component change in the Northern Great Basin, USA

M Rigge, H Shi, C Homer, P Danielson… - Ecosphere, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
The need to monitor change in sagebrush steppe is urgent due to the increasing impacts of
climate change, shifting fire regimes, and management practices on ecosystem health …

Human population growth and accessibility from cities shape rangeland condition in the American West

JM Requena-Mullor, J Brandt, MA Williamson… - Landscape and Urban …, 2023 - Elsevier
Drylands cover 40% of the global land surface and more than 3 billion people worldwide 2
are dependent on the ecosystem services (ES) that they provide (Hoover et al 2020) …

Temporal mismatch in space use by a sagebrush obligate species after large‐scale wildfire

EM Schuyler, CA Hagen, CR Anthony, LJ Foster… - …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
The increase in size and frequency of wildfires in sagebrush steppe ecosystems has
significant impacts on sagebrush obligate species. We modeled seasonal habitat use by …

Integrating ecosystem resilience and resistance into decision support tools for multi-scale population management of a sagebrush indicator species

MA Ricca, PS Coates - Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Imperiled sagebrush (Artemisia spp.) ecosystems of western North America are
experiencing unprecedented conservation planning efforts. Advances in decision-support …

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

S Saraf, R John, R Goljani Amirkhiz, V Kolluru, K Jain… - Landscape …, 2023 - Springer
Abstract Context Yellow sweetclover (Melilotus officinalis; YSC) is an invasive biennial
legume that bloomed across the Northern Great Plains in 2018–2019 in response to above …

A multifaceted quantitative index for sustainability assessment of groundwater management: application for aquifers around Iran

B Zarei, E Parizi, SM Hosseini, B Ataie-Ashtiani - Groundwater, 2023 - taylorfrancis.com
This study developed a groundwater sustainable management index including components
of environmental, social, economic and institutional responsibility. Four significant indicators …