SAVANNA LAB
The whole world is a savanna; forests and grasslands are just special cases
The whole world is a savanna; forests and grasslands are just special cases
| Authors | Year | Title | Journal |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hanan, N.P., Milne, E., Aynekulu, E., Yu, Q., Anchang, J. | 2021 | A Role for Drylands in a Carbon Neutral World? | Frontiers in Environmental Science |
| Yu, Q., Ji, W., Prihodko, L., Ross, C.W., Anchang, Y.J., & Hanan, N.P. | 2021 | Study becomes insight: Ecological learning from machine learning | Methods in Ecology and Evolution |
| Cunliffe, M.A. (50 authors including Hanan, N.P., Ji. W., & Wojcikiewicz, R.) | 2021 | Global application of an unoccupied aerial vehicle photogrammetry protocol for predicting aboveground biomass in non-forest ecosystems. | Remote Sensing in Ecology and Conservation |
| Ross, C.W., Hanan, N.P., Prihodko, L., Anchang, J., Ji, W., & Yu, Q. | 2021 | Woody-biomass projections and drivers of change in sub-Saharan Africa. | Nature Climate Change |
| Hanan, N.P., Limaye, A.S., & Irwin, D.E. | 2021 | Editorial: Use of Earth Observations for Actionable Decision Making in the Developing World. | Frontiers in Environmental Science |
| Hanan, N.P., & Anchang, Y.J. | 2020 | Satellites could soon map every tree on Earth. | Nature News & Views |
| Kumar, S.S., Prihodko, L., Lind, B.M., Anchang, J., Ji, W., Ross, C.W., et al. | 2020 | Remotely sensed thermal decay rate: an index for vegetation monitoring. | Scientific Report |
| Samasse, K., Hanan, N.P., Anchang, J.Y., & Diallo, Y. | 2020 | A High-Resolution Cropland Map for the West African Sahel Based on High-Density Training Data, Google Earth Engine, and Locally Optimized Machine Learning. | Remote Sensing |
| Anchang, J.Y., Prihodko, L., Ji, W., Kumar, S.S., Ross, C.W., Yu, Q., et al. | 2020 | Toward Operational Mapping of Woody Canopy Cover in Tropical Savannas Using Google Earth Engine. | Frontiers in Environmental Science |
| Brennan, J.R., Johnson, P.S., & Hanan, N.P. | 2020 | Comparing stability in random forest models to map Northern Great Plains plant communities in pastures occupied by prairie dogs using Pleiades imagery. | Biogeosciences |
| Kumar, S.S., Hanan, N.P., Prihodko, L., Anchang, J., Ross, C.W., Ji, W., et al. | 2019 | Alternative Vegetation States in Tropical Forests and Savannas: The Search for Consistent Signals in Diverse Remote Sensing Data. | Remote Sensing |
| Anchang, J.Y., Prihodko, L., Kaptué, A.T., Ross, C.W., Ji, W., Kumar, S.S., et al. | 2019 | Trends in Woody and Herbaceous Vegetation in the Savannas of West Africa. | Remote Sensing |
| Ji, W., Hanan, N.P., Browning, D.M., Monger, H.C., Peters, D.P.C., Bestelmeyer, B.T., et al. | 2019 | Constraints on shrub cover and shrub–shrub competition in a U.S. southwest desert. | Ecosphere |
| Lind, B.M., Hanan, N.P., Gigliotti, L.C., Allen, R.L., McHenry, A., & Gardiner, A. | 2018 | Termite diversity along a catena in southern Kruger National Park, South Africa. | African Journal of Ecology |
| Samasse, K., Hanan, N.P., Tappan, G., & Diallo, Y. | 2018 | Assessing Cropland Area in West Africa for Agricultural Yield Analysis. | Remote Sensing |
| Koerner , S.E., Smith, M.D., Burkepile, D.E., Hanan, N.P., Avolio, M.L., Collins, S.L., et al. | 2018 | Change in dominance determines herbivore effects on plant biodiversity. | Nature Ecology & Evolution |
| Peters, D.P.C., Burruss, N.D., Rodriguez, L.L., McVey, D.S., Elias, E.H., Pelzel-McCluskey, A.M., Derner, J.D., et al. | 2018 | An Integrated View of Complex Landscapes: A Big Data-Model Integration Approach to Transdisciplinary Science. | BioScience |
| Hanan, N.P. | 2018 | Agroforestry in the Sahel. | Nature Geoscience |
| Ross, C.W., Prihodko, L, Anchang, J., Kumar, S., Ji, W., & Hanan, N.P. | 2018 | HYSOGs250m, global gridded hydrologic soil groups for curve-number-based runoff modeling. | Scientific Data |
| Kahiu, M.N., & Hanan, N.P. | 2018 | Fire in sub-Saharan Africa: The fuel, cure and connectivity hypothesis. | Global Ecology and Biogeography |
| Axelsson, C.R., & Hanan, N.P. | 2018 | Rates of woody encroachment in African savannas reflect water constraints and fire disturbance. | Journal of Biogeography |
| Kahiu, M.N., & Hanan, N.P. | 2017 | Estimation of Woody and Herbaceous Leaf Area Index in Sub-Saharan Africa Using MODIS Data. | Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences |
| Griffith, D.M., Lehmann, C.E.R., Strömberg, C.A.E., Parr, C.L., Pennington, T., Sankaran, M., et al. | 2017 | Comment on “The extent of forest in dryland biomes”. | Science |
| Gilmanov, T.G., Morgan, J.A., Hanan, N.P,, Wylie, B.K., Rajan, N., Smith, D.P., et al. | 2017 | Productivity and CO2 Exchange of Great Plains Ecoregions. I. Shortgrass Steppe: Flux Tower Estimates. | Rangeland Ecology & Management |
| Axelsson, C.R., & Hanan, N.P. | 2017 | Patterns in woody vegetation structure across African savannas. | Biogeosciences |
| Dohn, J., Augustine, D.J., Hanan, N.P., Ratnam, J., & Sankaran, M. | 2016 | Spatial vegetation patterns and neighborhood competition among woody plants in an East African savanna. | Ecology |
| Yan, D., Zhang, X., Yu, Y., Guo, W., & Hanan, N.P. | 2016 | Characterizing land surface phenology and responses to rainfall in the Sahara desert. | Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences |
| Milne, E., Aynekulu, E., Bationo, A., Batjes, N.H., Boone, R., Conant, R., et al. | 2016 | Grazing lands in Sub-Saharan Africa and their potential role in climate change mitigation: What we do and don't know. | Environmental Development |
| Petrie, M.D., Brunsell, N.A., Vargas, R., Collins, S.L., Flanagan, L.B., Hanan, N.P., et al. | 2016 | The sensitivity of carbon exchanges in Great Plains grasslands to precipitation variability. | Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences |
| Kaptué, A.M., Prihodko, L., & Hanan, N.P. | 2016 | On regreening and degradation in Sahelian watersheds. | PNAS |
| Tredennick, A.T., Karembé, M., Dembélé, F., Dohn, J., & Hanan, N.P. | 2015 | No effects of fire, large herbivores and their interaction on regrowth of harvested trees in two West African savannahs. | African Journal of Ecology |
| Hanan, N.P., Tredennick, A.T., Prihodko, L., Bucini, G., & Dohn, J. | 2015 | Analysis of stable states in global savannas – a response to Staver and Hansen. | Global Ecology and Biogeography |
| Kaptué, A.T., Hanan, N.P., Prihodko, L, & Ramirez, J.A. | 2015 | Spatial and temporal characteristics of rainfall in Africa: Summary statistics for temporal downscaling. | Water Resources Research |
| Tredennick, A.T., & Hanan, N.P. | 2015 | Effects of Tree Harvest on the Stable-State Dynamics of Savanna and Forest. | The American Naturalis |
| Palmer, A.R., Weideman, C., Finca, A., Everson, C.S., Hanan, N., & Ellery, W. | 2015 | Modelling annual evapotranspiration in a semi-arid, African savanna: functional convergence theory, MODIS LAI and the Penman–Monteith equation. | African Journal of Range & Forage Science |
| Fan, Z., Neff, J.C., & Hanan, N.P. | 2015 | Modeling pulsed soil respiration in an African savanna ecosystem. | Agricultural and Forest Meteorology |
| Lehman, C.E.R., Anderson, T.M., Sankaran, M., Higgins, S.I., Archibald, S., Hoffmann, W.A., et al. | 2014 | Savanna Vegetation-Fire-Climate Relationships Differ Among Continent. | Science |
| Hanan, N.P., Tredennick, A.T., Prihodko, L., Bucini, G., & Dohn, J. | 2014 | Analysis of stable states in global savannas: is the CART pulling the horse? | Global Ecology and Biogeography |
| Kaptue, A.T., Hanan, N.P., & Prihodko, L. | 2013 | Characterization of the spatial and temporal variability of surface water in the Soudan-Sahel region of Africa. | Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences |
| Tredennick, A.T., Bentley, L.P., & Hanan, N.P. | 2013 | Allometric Convergence in Savanna Trees and Implications for the Use of Plant Scaling Models in Variable Ecosystems. | PLoS ONE |
| Sjöström, M., Zhao, M., Archibald, S., Arneth, A., Cappelaere, B., Falk, U., et al. | 2013 | Evaluation of MODIS gross primary productivity for Africa using eddy covariance data. | Remote Sensing of Environment |
| Gilmanov, T.G., Wylie, B.K., Tieszen, L.L., Meyers, T.P., Baron, V.S., Bernacchi, C.J., et al. | 2013 | CO2 uptake and ecophysiological parameters of the grain crops of midcontinent North America: Estimates from flux tower measurement. | Agriculture, Ecosystems & Envi |
| Dohn, J., Dembélé, F., BKarembé, M., Moustakas, A., Amévor, K.A., & Hanan, N.P. | 2013 | Tree effects on grass growth in savannas: competition, facilitation and the stress-gradient hypothesis. | Journal of Ecology |