Kevin P. Price

TL;DR: The results quantify a trigger leading to rapid, drought-induced die-off of overstory woody plants at subcontinental scale and highlight the potential for such die-offs to be more severe and extensive for future global-change-type drought under warmer conditions.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined temporal responses of remotely sensed NDVI to precipitation and temperature during a nine-year period (1989-97) in Kansas and found that average growing season NDVI values were highly correlated with precipitation received during the current growing season.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined spatial responses of NDVI to precipitation and temperature during a 9-year period (1989-1997) in Kansas and found that precipitation is a strong predictor of regional spatial patterns of NDV and, by inference, patterns of productivity.

TL;DR: In this paper, the seasonal vegetation response to the recent climatic variation on the Mongolian steppes, the third largest grassland in the world, was examined using time-series analysis of advanced very high resolution radiometer (AVHRR) normalized difference vegetation index (NDVI) biweekly composite data collected between January 1982 and December 1991.

TL;DR: The NDVI is a good measure of photosynthetic activity at landscape scales, and can be used to estimate productivity as mentioned in this paper, but it is not suitable for the measurement of indoor plants.