Ed L. Fredrickson

TL;DR: The use of ecologically-based principles of land management remains at the core of the ability of private land owners and public land managers to provide these existing and emerging services.

TL;DR: It is argued for the unifying concept that diverse forms of desertification, and its remediation, are driven by changes in the length of connected pathways for the movement of fire, water, and soil resources.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors present a new research framework that includes five interacting elements to explain variable dynamics: historical legacies, environmental driving variables, a soil-geomorphic template of patterns in local properties and their spatial context, multiple horizontal and vertical transport vectors (water, wind, animals), and redistribution of resources within and among spatial units by the transport vectors, in interaction with other drivers.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors used object-based rather than pixel-based image information as input for a classification tree for mapping arid land vegetation, which allowed for differentiation of individual shrubs at a fine scale and delineation of broader vegetation classes at coarser scales.

TL;DR: In this article, an image analysis approach for estimating fractional cover of green and senescent vegetation using very high-resolution ground photography, and to compare image-based estimates with line-point-intercept (LPI) measures.