Forest restoration is currently a primary objective in environmental management policies at a
global scale, to the extent that impressive initiatives and commitments have been launched …

Groundwater represents a critical water source for plants, especially during drought, with
continuous groundwater availability widely associated with the presence of ecological …

There is a growing demand for accurate high-resolution land cover maps in many fields, eg,
in land-use planning and biodiversity conservation. Developing such maps has been …

Vegetation generally appears scattered in drylands. Its structure, composition and spatial
patterns are key controls of biotic interactions, water, and nutrient cycles. Applying …

Identifying and mapping of potential groundwater-dependent ecosystems (pGDEs) are
pivotal to well understanding of the interaction between groundwater and ecosystem as well …

Water availability controls the functioning of dryland ecosystems, driving a patchy vegetation
distribution, unequal nutrient availability, soil respiration in pulses, and limited productivity …

Premise Water is the most limiting factor in dryland ecosystems, and plants are adapted to
cope with this constraint. Particularly vulnerable are phreatophytic plants from groundwater …

Climate change and human actions condition the spatial distribution and structure of
vegetation, especially in drylands. In this context, object-based image analysis (OBIA) has …

Topography is the most important component of the geographical shell, one of the main
elements of geosystems, and the framework of a landscape. geomorphometry is a science …

Maytenus senegalensis subsp. europaea is a shrub belonging to the Celastraceae family,
whose only European populations are distributed discontinuously along the south-eastern …