Monitoring pinyon-juniper cover and aboveground biomass across the Great Basin

Monitoring pinyon-juniper cover and aboveground biomass across the Great Basin

Since the mid-1800s pinyon-juniper (PJ) woodlands have been encroaching into sagebrush-steppe shrublands and grasslands such that they now comprise 40% of the total forest and woodland area of the Intermountain West of the United States. More recently, PJ ecosystems in select areas have experienced...

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Main Authors: Steven K Filippelli, Michael J Falkowski, Andrew T Hudak, Patrick A Fekety, Jody C Vogeler, Azad Henareh Khalyani, Benjamin M Rau, Eva K Strand
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: IOP Publishing 2020-01-01
Series:Environmental Research Letters
Subjects:
pinyon-juniper
woodland
aboveground biomass
canopy cover
encroachment
Great Basin
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/ab6785

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https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/ab6785

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