Woody plant encroachment impacts on groundwater recharge: A review

BS Acharya, G Kharel, CB Zou, BP Wilcox, T Halihan - Water, 2018 - mdpi.com
Woody plant encroachment has profound impacts on the sustainable management of water
resources in water-limited ecosystems. However, our understanding of the effects of this …

Ecohydrological connectivity: A unifying framework for understanding how woody plant encroachment alters the water cycle in drylands

BP Wilcox, S Basant, H Olariu… - Frontiers in Environmental …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Grasslands and savannas in drylands have been and continue to be converted to
woodlands through a phenomenon often described as woody plant encroachment. This …

Characterizing the encroachment of juniper forests into sub-humid and semi-arid prairies from 1984 to 2010 using PALSAR and Landsat data

J Wang, X Xiao, Y Qin, RB Doughty, J Dong… - Remote sensing of …, 2018 - Elsevier
Over the past few decades, wide encroachment of eastern redcedar (Juniperus virginiana)
and Ashe juniper (Juniperus ashei) into the prairies of the US Great Plains has affected …

Mapping the dynamics of eastern redcedar encroachment into grasslands during 1984–2010 through PALSAR and time series Landsat images

J Wang, X Xiao, Y Qin, J Dong, G Geissler… - Remote sensing of …, 2017 - Elsevier
Woody plant encroachment of eastern redcedar (Juniperus virginiana L., hereafter referred
to as “red cedar”) into native grasslands in the US Southern Great Plains has significantly …

Improvement of evapotranspiration estimates for grasslands in the southern Great Plains: Comparing a biophysical model (SWAT) and remote sensing (MODIS)

L Qiao, R Will, K Wagner, T Zhang, C Zou - Journal of Hydrology: Regional …, 2022 - Elsevier
Study region Mixed-and tall-grass prairies in the southern Great Plains, USA Study focus
Estimates of evapotranspiration (ET) are widely available from remote sensing and …

Impact of eastern redcedar proliferation on water resources in the Great Plains USA—current state of knowledge

CB Zou, D Twidwell, CH Bielski, DT Fogarty… - Water, 2018 - mdpi.com
In the Great Plains of the central United States, water resources for human and aquatic life
rely primarily on surface runoff and local recharge from rangelands that are under rapid …

Quantifying woody plant encroachment in grasslands: A review on remote sensing approaches

I Soubry, X Guo - Canadian Journal of Remote Sensing, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
Grasslands are an important global ecosystem, providing essential ecological and economic
ecosystem services. Over the last couple decades, as a result of climate change and human …

Woody plant encroachment reduces annual runoff and shifts runoff mechanisms in the tallgrass prairie, U SA

L Qiao, CB Zou, E Stebler… - Water Resources Research, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Woody plant encroachment into semiarid and subhumid rangelands is a global
phenomenon with important hydrological implications. Observational and experimental …

Spatiotemporal variability and key factors of evergreen forest encroachment in the southern Great Plains

X Yang, X Xiao, C Zhang - Journal of Environmental Management, 2023 - Elsevier
Woody plant encroachment has been long observed in the southern Great Plains (SGP) of
the United States. However, our understanding of its spatiotemporal variability, which is the …

Challenges of brush management treatment effectiveness in southern Great Plains, United States

R Scholtz, SD Fuhlendorf, DR Uden, BW Allred… - Rangeland Ecology & …, 2021 - Elsevier
Woodland expansion is a global challenge documented under varying degrees of
disturbance, climate, and land ownership patterns. In North American rangelands …