Browsing by Author "Popescu, Sorin"
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Doner, Yavuz (2018-11-19)The stress on water resources is more critical in drylands due to ecological and climatological changes. Because upscaling the findings of paired-catchment studies to larger watersheds is difficult, hydrological models ...
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Steigerwald, Phillip steven (2021-07-08)Woody plant encroachment (WPE) reduces ecosystem services and economic benefits obtained from rangelands. Prescribed fire disturbance regimes have been identified as an ecologically and economically viable management ...
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Sheridan, Ryan; Popescu, Sorin; Gatziolis, Demetrios; Morgan, Cristine; Ku, Nian-Wei (Remote Sensing, 2014)
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Fitzgerald, Maegan Annette (2017-07-20)Tropical forests and the biodiversity within them are rapidly declining in the face of an increasing human population. Resource management and conservation of endangered species requires an understanding of how species ...
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Sahoo, Debabrata (2009-05-15)Environmental flows are important to maintain the ecological integrity of the estuary. In a watershed, it is influenced by land use land cover (LULC) change, climate variability, and water regulations. San Antonio, Texas, ...
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Martinez, Marisa Takada (2015-07-23)Knowledge of post-fledging habitat needs is limited for avian species. To better understand this life stage I examined how fledgling black-capped vireos (Vireo atricapilla; hereafter vireo) respond to woodland landcover ...
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Zhang, Huihui (2012-02-14)In this study, the performances of the optical sensors and instruments carried on both ground-based and airborne platforms were evaluated for monitoring crop growing status, detecting the vegetation response to aerial ...
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Off-fault Damage Associated with a Localized Bend in the North Branch San Gabriel Fault, California Becker, Andrew 1987- (2012-08-15)Structures within very large displacement, mature fault zones, such as the North Branch San Gabriel Fault (NBSGF), are the product of a complex combination of processes. Off-fault damage within a damage zone and first-order ...
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Delgado Jr., Arturo (2016-07-26)Coastal marshes on the Gulf Coast of Texas are an important transition zone between the ocean and land, acting as an ecological buffer and providing invaluable ecosystem services to people and the surrounding environment. ...
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Putman, Eric Bryan (2017-06-26)Standing dead trees (SDTs) are an important forest component and impact a variety of ecosystem processes, yet the carbon pool dynamics of SDTs are poorly constrained in terrestrial carbon cycling models. The ability to ...
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Edwards, Aron Shaun (2009-05-15)A mapping study using remote sensing software called ENVI was conducted utilizing four software algorithms to investigate whether these techniques could accurately classify habitat types and vegetation communities along ...
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Abdullah, Meshal M (2015-12-17)Land degradation and desertification is a serious global issue facing arid ecosystems. Problems of land degradation in Kuwait deserts have accelerated throughout the world, leading to loss of vegetation cover and topsoil ...
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Li, Yiran (2018-04-30)The roughness of sea ice can affect its bidirectional reflectance distribution function (BRDF) thus influencing retrieval of its physical properties from satellite. We leverage WorldView-1 and Multi-angle Imaging ...
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Yang, Linqing (2022-12-09)Phenology, the timing of life-cycle events and phases of plants and animals, and their relationship with the environment, especially climate, is an integrative record of the effects of global warming and other environmental ...
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Isaacs, Rachel E. (2009-05-15)Large-extent ice storms have received relatively little attention from researchers. This research investigates the effects of abiotic and biotic factors on the spatial patterns of ice storm disturbance on a forested ...
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Marcell, Wesley Tyler (2011-02-22)Proof of concept lidar research has, to date, examined wall-to-wall models of forest ecosystems. While these studies have been important for verifying lidars efficacy for forest surveys, complete coverage is likely not ...
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Gaur, Nandita (2015-12-02)Soil moisture forms the interface at which the partitioning of the energy, carbon and water budget for the land-surface occurs. Its variability impacts different fields of application at varying extent scales like agriculture ...
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Shi, Yeyin; J. Alex Thomasson; Murray, Seth; N. Ace Pugh; Rooney, William; Shafian, Sanaz; Rajan, Nithya; Rouze, Gregory; Morgan, Cristine; Neely, Haly; Rana, Aman; Bagavathiannan, Muthu; Henrickson, James; Bowden, Ezekiel; Valasek, John; Olsenholler, Jeff; Bishop, Michael; Sheridan, Ryan; Putman, Eric; Popescu, Sorin; Burks, Travis; Cope, Dale; Ibrahim, Amir; McCutchen, Billy; Baltensperger, David; Avant, Robert; Jr; Vidrine, Misty; Yang, Chenghai (PloS One, 2016)
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Sapkota, Bishwa Bandhu (2022-04-21)Site-specific treatment of weeds in agricultural landscapes has been gaining importance in recent years due to economic savings and minimal impact on the environment. Weed detection and recognition is a major component of ...
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Adams, Tyler Morgan (2020-08-24)Changing demands for sustainable food and fuel sources will be the major driver of agriculture in the 21st Century, especially as the world population reaches its estimated carrying capacity. Efficient plant breeding methods ...