• HUMAN-INDUCED VEGETATION DEGRADATION IN A SEMI-ARID RANGELAND 

  Jackson, Hasan (2017)

  Current assessments of anthropogenic land degradation and its impact on vegetation at regional scales are prone to large uncertainties due to the lack of an objective, transferable, spatially and temporally explicit measure ...

• "The voice of duty is the voice of God": The spatial manifestation of the religious duty of health in Seventh-day Adventism 

  Burtch, Nathan R. (2017)

  The Seventh-day Adventists are a millennial Christian denomination that traces its lineage to the Millerites of the mid-nineteenth century. Among the various theological differences espoused by Adventism is a predilection ...

• ADDRESSING THE IMPACT ON SOIL DEGRADATION OF CHANGE FROM GRASSLAND TO CROPLAND: A CASE STUDY IN THE URUGUAYAN GRASSLANDS 

  Castano-Sanchez, Jose P (2017)

  Globally, there has been large-scale conversion of natural grassland to cropland ecosystems which this has led to land degradation that could reduce future food security, other ecosystem services and even climate. Currently, ...

• Drivers of the US CO2 emissions 1997–2013 

  Feng, Kuishuang; Davis, Steven J.; Sun, Laixiang; Hubacek, Klaus (Nature Publishing Group, 2015-07-21)

  Fossil fuel CO2 emissions in the United States decreased by ~11% between 2007 and 2013, from 6,023 to 5,377 Mt. This decline has been widely attributed to a shift from the use of coal to natural gas in US electricity ...

• Characterizing leaf area index (LAI) and vertical foliage profile (VFP) over the United States 

  Tang, H.; Ganguly, S.; Zhang, G.; Hofton, M. A.; Nelson, R. F.; Dubayah, R. (Copernicus Publications, 2016)

  Leaf area index (LAI) and vertical foliage profile (VFP) are among the important canopy structural variables. Recent advances in lidar remote sensing technology have demonstrated the capability of accurately mapping LAI ...

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