The Dahra field site in Senegal, West Africa, was established in 2002 to monitor ecosystem
properties of semiarid savanna grassland and their responses to climatic and environmental …

Anthropogenic land use and land cover changes (LULCC) have a large impact on the global
terrestrial carbon sink, but this effect is not well characterized according to biogeographical …

Global climate change is projected to lead to an increase in both the areal extent and degree
of aridity in the world’s drylands. At the same time, the majority of drylands are located in …

The collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991 has been a turning point in the World history that left
a unique footprint on the Northern Eurasian ecosystems. Conducting large scale mapping …

Abstract Changes in soil moisture strongly affect vegetation growth, which may in turn feed
back on soil moisture by directly affecting evapotranspiration and indirectly regulating …

Wetlands in drylands are vulnerable to degradation and disappearance due to the combined
effects of increasing anthropogenic disturbances and climatic extremes. Such influences …

The main aim of this paper is to study land–atmosphere exchange of carbon dioxide (CO 2 )
for semi-arid savanna ecosystems of the Sahel region and its response to climatic and …

In recent years, large-scale tree mortality events linked to global change have occurred around
the world. Current forest monitoring methods are crucial for identifying mortality hotspots, …

Aim Changes in dryland ecosystem functioning are threatening the well‐being of human
populations worldwide, and land degradation, exacerbated by climate change, contributes to …

Extreme climate events and nonsustainable land use are important drivers altering the
functioning of European ecosystems, resulting in loss of the services provided. Yet a consensus …