Temporal variability of precipitation and biomass of alpine grasslands on the northern Tibetan plateau

M Li, J Wu, C Song, Y He, B Niu, G Fu, P Tarolli… - Remote Sensing, 2019 - mdpi.com
The timing regimes of precipitation can exert profound impacts on grassland ecosystems.
However, it is still unclear how the peak aboveground biomass (AGBpeak) of alpine …

Population size and structure of beisa oryx and gerenuk in Geralle National Park, southeastern Ethiopia

M Aychew, Z Girma - Ecology and Evolution, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
The study was conducted to determine the population size of endangered Oryx beisa
(Rüppell, 1835), and near‐threatened Litocranius walleri (Brooke, 1878) of uncertain global …

The rate of environmental change as an important driver across scales in ecology

AD Synodinos, R Karnatak, CA Aguilar‐Trigueros… - Oikos, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Global change has been predominantly studied from the prism of 'how much'rather than
'how fast'change occurs. Associated to this, there has been a focus on environmental drivers …

Resilience of the central Indian forest ecosystem to rainfall variability in the context of a changing climate

B Singh, C Jeganathan, VS Rathore, MD Behera… - Remote Sensing, 2021 - mdpi.com
Understanding the spatio-temporal pattern of natural vegetation helps decoding the
responses to climate change and interpretation on forest resilience. Satellite remote sensing …

A model of seasonal savanna dynamics

P Klimasara, M Tyran-Kamińska - SIAM Journal on Applied Mathematics, 2023 - SIAM
We introduce a mathematical model of savanna vegetation dynamics. The usual approach
of nonequilibrium ecology is extended by including the impact of wet and dry seasons. We …

Spatial and temporal variability of tritium in precipitation within South Africa and it's bearing on hydrological studies

JD van Rooyen, L Palcsu, A Visser… - Journal of environmental …, 2021 - Elsevier
Tritium, the radioactive isotope of hydrogen, has been used to understand groundwater
recharge processes for decades. The current variation of tritium in the atmosphere is largely …

A tribute to the use of minimalistic spatially-implicit models of savanna vegetation dynamics to address broad spatial scales in spite of scarce data

VD Yatat, A Tchuinté, Y Dumont, P Couteron - Biomath, 2018 - hal.umontpellier.fr
The savanna biome encompasses a variety of vegetation physiognomies that traduce
complex dynamical responses of plants to the rainfall gradients leading from tropical forests …

Inter-annual rainfall variability may foster lake regime shifts: An example from Lake Bourget in France

A Brias, JD Mathias, G Deffuant - Ecological modelling, 2018 - Elsevier
Abstract The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change anticipates increasing extreme
rain events in the 21st century, leading to more frequent floods and more phosphorus …

[HTML][HTML] Ecosystem productivity and CO2 exchange response to the interaction of livestock grazing and rainfall manipulation in a Kenyan savanna

JO Ondier, DO Okach, JC Onyango… - Environmental and …, 2021 - Elsevier
Savanna ecosystems in Kenya are experiencing altered rainfall amount and increased
grazing pressure. These environmental alterations occur simultaneously and impact on …

[HTML][HTML] Balanced Functional Herbivore Composition Stabilizes Tree-Grass Coexistence and Productivity in a Simulated Savanna Rangeland Ecosystem

L Szangolies, D Lohmann, M Hauptfleisch… - Rangeland Ecology & …, 2023 - Elsevier
Savanna ecosystems provide resources supporting the livelihoods of millions of people
globally. Ongoing exploitation through high livestock densities, among other factors …