Search Results - "ESTES, LYNDON D."

The influence of climate variability on internal migration flows in South Africa by Mastrorillo, Marina, Licker, Rachel, Bohra-Mishra, Pratikshya, Fagiolo, Giorgio, D. Estes, Lyndon, Oppenheimer, Michael

“…•This work investigates the impact of climate variability on internal migration in South Africa.•We find that increases in positive temperature enhance…”
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A generalized computer vision approach to mapping crop fields in heterogeneous agricultural landscapes by Debats, Stephanie R., Luo, Dee, Estes, Lyndon D., Fuchs, Thomas J., Caylor, Kelly K.

“…Smallholder farms dominate in many parts of the world, particularly Sub-Saharan Africa. These systems are characterized by small, heterogeneous, and often…”
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Improved Fine-Scale Tropical Forest Cover Mapping for Southeast Asia Using Planet-NICFI and Sentinel-1 Imagery by Yang, Feng, Jiang, Xin, Ziegler, Alan D., Estes, Lyndon D., Wu, Jin, Chen, Anping, Ciais, Philippe, Wu, Jie, Zeng, Zhenzhong

“…The accuracy of existing forest cover products typically suffers from “rounding” errors arising from classifications that estimate the fractional cover of…”
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High Resolution, Annual Maps of Field Boundaries for Smallholder-Dominated Croplands at National Scales by Estes, Lyndon D, Ye, Su, Song, Lei, Luo, Boka, Eastman, J Ronald, Meng, Zhenhua, Zhang, Qi, McRitchie, Dennis, Debats, Stephanie R, Muhando, Justus, Amukoa, Angeline H, Kaloo, Brian W, Makuru, Jackson, Mbatia, Ben K, Muasa, Isaac M, Mucha, Julius, Mugami, Adelide M, Mugami, Judith M, Muinde, Francis W, Mwawaza, Fredrick M, Ochieng, Jeff, Oduol, Charles J, Oduor, Purent, Wanjiku, Thuo, Wanyoike, Joseph G, Avery, Ryan B, Caylor, Kelly K

“…Mapping the characteristics of Africa's smallholder-dominated croplands, including the sizes and numbers of fields, can provide critical insights into food…”
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Changing water availability during the African maize-growing season, 1979-2010 by Estes, Lyndon D, Chaney, Nathaniel W, Herrera-Estrada, Julio, Sheffield, Justin, Caylor, Kelly K, Wood, Eric F

“…Understanding how global change is impacting African agriculture requires a full physical accounting of water supply and demand, but accurate, gridded data on…”
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Climate mitigation from vegetation biophysical feedbacks during the past three decades by Zeng, Zhenzhong, Piao, Shilong, Li, Laurent Z. X., Zhou, Liming, Ciais, Philippe, Wang, Tao, Li, Yue, Lian, Xu, Wood, Eric F., Friedlingstein, Pierre, Mao, Jiafu, Estes, Lyndon D., Myneni, Ranga B., Peng, Shushi, Shi, Xiaoying, Seneviratne, Sonia I., Wang, Yingping

“…Greening—increasing leaf area index—affects regional climate in a number of contradictory ways. The net global effect is now revealed to be cooling that has…”
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Consequences of underexplored variation in biodiversity indices used for land-use prioritization by Crawford, Christopher L., Estes, Lyndon D., Searchinger, Timothy D., Wilcove, David S.

“…For biodiversity protection to play a persuasive role in land-use planning, conservationists must be able to offer objective systems for ranking which natural…”
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Projected climate impacts to South African maize and wheat production in 2055: a comparison of empirical and mechanistic modeling approaches by Estes, Lyndon D., Beukes, Hein, Bradley, Bethany A., Debats, Stephanie R., Oppenheimer, Michael, Ruane, Alex C., Schulze, Roland, Tadross, Mark

“…Crop model‐specific biases are a key uncertainty affecting our understanding of climate change impacts to agriculture. There is increasing research focus on…”
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Climate change must not blow conservation off course by Tingley, Morgan W., Estes, Lyndon D., Wilcove, David S.

“…Reconfiguring protection priorities around global warming could be of limited use or even harmful, say Morgan W. Tingley, Lyndon D. Estes and David S. Wilcove…”
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A high-frequency mobile phone data collection approach for research in social-environmental systems: Applications in climate variability and food security in sub-Saharan Africa by Giroux, Stacey A., Kouper, Inna, Estes, Lyndon D., Schumacher, Jacob, Waldman, Kurt, Greenshields, Joel T., Dickinson, Stephanie L., Caylor, Kelly K., Evans, Tom P.

“…Collecting high-frequency social-environmental data about farming practices in sub-Saharan Africa can provide new insight into environmental changes that…”
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Cognitive Biases about Climate Variability in Smallholder Farming Systems in Zambia by Waldman, Kurt B., Vergopolan, Noemi, Attari, Shahzeen Z., Sheffield, Justin, Estes, Lyndon D., Caylor, Kelly K., Evans, Tom P.

“…Given the varying manifestations of climate change over time and the influence of climate perceptions on adaptation, it is important to understand whether…”
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Climate change: helping nature survive the human response by Turner, Will R, Bradley, Bethany A, Estes, Lyndon D, Hole, David G, Oppenheimer, Michael, Wilcove, David S

“…Climate change poses profound, direct, and well‐documented threats to biodiversity. A significant fraction of Earth's species is at risk of extinction due to…”
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Predicting how adaptation to climate change could affect ecological conservation: secondary impacts of shifting agricultural suitability by Bradley, Bethany A., Estes, Lyndon D., Hole, David G., Holness, Stephen, Oppenheimer, Michael, Turner, Will R., Beukes, Hein, Schulze, Roland E., Tadross, Mark A., Wilcove, David S.

“…Aim: Ecosystems face numerous well-documented threats from climate change. The well-being of people also is threatened by climate change, most prominently by…”
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Using Changes in Agricultural Utility to Quantify Future Climate-Induced Risk to Conservation by ESTES, LYNDON D., PAROZ, LYDIE-LINE, BRADLEY, BETHANY A., GREEN, JONATHAN M.H., HOLE, DAVID G., HOLNESS, STEPHEN, ZIV, GUY, OPPENHEIMER, MICHAEL G., WILCOVE, DAVID S.

“…Much of the biodiversity-related climate change impacts research has focused on the direct effects to species and ecosystems. Far less attention has been paid…”
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High-spatiotemporal-resolution mapping of global urban change from 1985 to 2015 by Liu, Xiaoping, Huang, Yinghuai, Xu, Xiaocong, Li, Xuecao, Li, Xia, Ciais, Philippe, Lin, Peirong, Gong, Kai, Ziegler, Alan D., Chen, Anping, Gong, Peng, Chen, Jun, Hu, Guohua, Chen, Yimin, Wang, Shaojian, Wu, Qiusheng, Huang, Kangning, Estes, Lyndon, Zeng, Zhenzhong

“…High-resolution global maps of annual urban land coverage provide fundamental information of global environmental change and contribute to applications related…”
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Projected climate impacts to S outh A frican maize and wheat production in 2055: a comparison of empirical and mechanistic modeling approaches by Estes, Lyndon D., Beukes, Hein, Bradley, Bethany A., Debats, Stephanie R., Oppenheimer, Michael, Ruane, Alex C., Schulze, Roland, Tadross, Mark

“…Crop model‐specific biases are a key uncertainty affecting our understanding of climate change impacts to agriculture. There is increasing research focus on…”
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Ecosystems: climate change must not blow conservation off course by Tingley, Morgan W, Estes, Lyndon D, Wilcove, David S

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A review of technical factors to consider when designing neural networks for semantic segmentation of Earth Observation imagery by Khallaghi, Sam, Eastman, J. Ronald, Estes, Lyndon D

“…Semantic segmentation (classification) of Earth Observation imagery is a crucial task in remote sensing. This paper presents a comprehensive review of…”
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Generalization Enhancement Strategies to Enable Cross-year Cropland Mapping with Convolutional Neural Networks Trained Using Historical Samples by Khallaghi, Sam, Abedi, Rahebe, Ali, Hanan Abou, Alemohammad, Hamed, Asipunu, Mary Dziedzorm, Alatise, Ismail, Ha, Nguyen, Luo, Boka, Mai, Cat, Song, Lei, Wussah, Amos, Xiong, Sitian, Yao, Yao-Ting, Zhang, Qi, Estes, Lyndon D

“…The accuracy of mapping agricultural fields across large areas is steadily improving with high-resolution satellite imagery and deep learning (DL) models, even…”
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