new paper - Phenology-based classification of invasive annual grasses to the species level

The Great Basin Landscape Ecology Lab and Center for Transformative Environmental Monitoring Programs has a new paper in Remote Sensing of Environment that uses drones to map two different invasive grasses in the Great Basin - cheatgrass and medusahead.  Our study found that we could effectively differentiate the species using three well-timed flights and a simple red-green-blue camera.  Using unmanned aerial vehicles we were able to accurately map the occurrence of these two different invasive species on the landscape. You can read our paper by clicking HERE.

Ali Urza's new paper on lower treelines is now typeset in Ecological Applications

Congratulations Ali Urza for a job well done on your paper " Evidence of widespread topoclimatic limitation for lower treelines of the Intermountain West, United States". It is great to see the article is now formatted for the journal!

https://esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/eap.2158

New paper by Sam Flake and Peter Weisberg

Congratulations Sam Flake and Peter Weisberg on their new paper "Fine‐scale stand structure mediates drought‐induced tree mortality in pinyon–juniper woodlands" published this week in Ecological Applications.  You can view their interesting and excellent paper HERE.

New remote sensing paper on cheatgrass die-offs

At last! Our paper "Development of remote sensing indicators for mapping episodic die-off of an invasive annual grass (Bromus tectorum) from the Landsat archive" has been accepted in Ecological Indicators. The image below shows some of our mapped die-off polygons overlaid on a Landsat composite image (SWIR2, SWIR1, and NIR bands in the red, green, and blue channels).  Yellow areas have a high probability of being mapped as a cheatgrass die-off area.

Upcoming Great Basin LCC Webinar on Pygmy Rabbit

Marjorie Matocq is presenting next Monday for the Great Basin Landscape Conservation Cooperative webinar series.  Sign up at http://greatbasinlcc.org/webinar-series .  If you can't make it there will be a recorded seminar available on YouTube in a couple of weeks.