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20257 publications

Five Lessons for Closing the Last Mile: How to Make Climate Decision Support Actionable

K. Baylis, E. C. Lentz, Kelly Caylor, M. Gu, C. Gunderson, T. Haigh, M. Hayes, H. Lahr, D. Maxwell, C. Funk

Earth's Future

Journal article

Commitment to Advance Excellence and Inclusion in the Earth and Space Sciences Scholarly Publications

M. Xenopoulos, Lisa Beal, G. Caprarelli, Kelly Caylor, Georgia Destouni, Qingyun Duan, Steven A. Hauck,, M. Huber, K. Karnauskas, Kate Lajtha, N. Lugaz, Alberto Montanari, Helen Nguyen, Julia K. Parrish, Ann Rowan, Isaac R. Santos, A. Schubnel, Michael Wysession

AGU Advances

Journal article

Using hyperspectral and thermal imagery to monitor stress of Southern California plant species during the 2013–2015 drought

Susan K. Meerdink, Dar A. Roberts, Jennifer Y. King, K. Roth, Paul D. Gader, Kelly Caylor

Isprs Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing

Journal article

20246 publications

Drivers of Spatiotemporal Patterns of Riparian Forest NDVI Along a Hydroclimatic Gradient

Pierre Lochin, Hervé Piégay, John C. Stella, Kelly Caylor, Lise Vaudor, Michael Bliss Singer

Ecohydrology

Journal article

Groundwater-dependent ecosystem map exposes global dryland protection needs

M. M. Rohde, Christine M. Albano, Xander Huggins, Kirk R Klausmeyer, Charles Morton, Ali Sharman, E. Zaveri, Laurel Saito, Zach Freed, Jeanette K Howard, N. Job, Holly Richter, K. Toderich, A. Rodella, Tom Gleeson, Justin Huntington, H. Chandanpurkar, A. Purdy, James S. Famiglietti, M. Singer, Dar A. Roberts, Kelly Caylor, John C. Stella

Nature

Journal article

Fluxbot: The Next Generation - Design and Validation of a Wireless, Open-Source Mechatronic CO2 Flux Sensing Chamber

Connor Pan, Vatsal V. Patel, Jonathan Gewirtzman, Ian Richardson, Ravish Dubey, Kelly Caylor, A. Dollar, Elizabeth S. Forbes

The Compass

Journal article

A river runs through it: Robust automated mapping of riparian woodlands and land surface phenology across dryland regions

Conor A. McMahon, Dar A. Roberts, John C. Stella, A. Trugman, M. Singer, Kelly Caylor

Remote Sensing of Environment

Journal article

Establishing ecological thresholds and targets for groundwater management

M. M. Rohde, John C. Stella, M. Singer, Dar A. Roberts, Kelly Caylor, Christine M. Albano

Nature Water

Journal article

20237 publications

How much control do smallholder maize farmers have over yield?

Michael Cecil, Allan Chilenga, Charles Bwalya Chisanga, N. Gatti, N. Krell, N. Vergopolan, Kathy Baylis, Kelly Caylor, Tom Evans, M. Konar, J. Sheffield, L. Estes

Field Crops Research

Journal article

Evapotranspiration regulates leaf temperature and respiration in dryland vegetation

Christopher L. Kibler, A. Trugman, D. Roberts, C. Still, R. Scott, Kelly Caylor, J. Stella, M. Singer

Agricultural & Forest Meteorology

Journal article

Fluxbots: A Method for Building, Deploying, Collecting and Analyzing Data From an Array of Inexpensive, Autonomous Soil Carbon Flux Chambers

ElizabethS Forbes, Vincent Benenati, Spencer Frey, Mare Hirsch, George Koech, Grace Lewin, J. Mantas, Kelly Caylor

Journal of Geophysical Research - Biogeosciences

Journal article

Smallholder social networks: Advice seeking and adaptation in rural Kenya

S. Giroux, Patrick Kaminski, Kurt B. Waldman, Jordan P. Blekking, Tom Evans, Kelly Caylor

Agricultural Systems

Journal article

20224 publications

High resolution spatiotemporal patterns of flow at the landscape scale in montane non‐perennial streams

R. Sabathier, M. Singer, J. Stella, D. Roberts, Kelly Caylor, K. Jaeger, J. Olden

River Research and Applications

Journal article

Direct partitioning of eddy-covariance water and carbon dioxide fluxes into ground and plant components

E. Zahn, E. Bou‐Zeid, S. Good, G. Katul, Christoph K. Thomas, K. Ghannam, J. Smith, M. Chamecki, N. Dias, J. Fuentes, J. Alfieri, H. Kwon, Kelly Caylor, Zhiqiu Gao, K. Soderberg, N. Bambach, L. Hipps, J. Prueger, W. Kustas

Agricultural & Forest Meteorology

Journal article

High Resolution, Annual Maps of Field Boundaries for Smallholder-Dominated Croplands at National Scales

L. Estes, Su Ye, Lei Song, B. Luo, J. R. Eastman, Zhen-zhi Meng, Qi Zhang, D. McRitchie, Stephanie Debats, J. Muhando, Amukoa, Brian W. Kaloo, Jackson Makuru, Ben K. Mbatia, Isaac M. Muasa, Július, Mucha, Adelide M. Mugami, J. Mugami, Francis W. Muinde, Mwawaza, Jeff Ochieng, Charles J. Oduol, Purent Oduor, Thuo Wanjiku, Wanyoike, Ryan Avery, Kelly Caylor

Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence

Journal article

Using real-time mobile phone data to characterize the relationships between small-scale farmers’ planting dates and socio-environmental factors

N. Krell, F. Davenport, L. Harrison, W. Turner, S. Peterson, S. Shukla, Jessica Marter-Kenyon, G. Husak, Tom Evans, Kelly Caylor

Climate Risk Management

Journal article

202110 publications

Global urban population exposure to extreme heat

Cascade Tuholske, Kelly Caylor, C. Funk, A. Verdin, S. Sweeney, K. Grace, P. Peterson, Tom Evans

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Journal article

Vegetation responses to climatic and geologic controls on water availability in Arizona

R. Sabathier, M. Singer, J. Stella, D. Roberts, Kelly Caylor

Environmental Research Letters

Journal article

RF Backscatter-Based Sensors for Structural Health Monitoring

M. Stanaćević, A. Ahmad, Xiao Sha, A. Athalye, S. Das, Kelly Caylor, B. Glišić, P. Djurić

International Balkan Conference on Communications and Networking (BalkanCom)

Conference paper

Perceived links between climate change and weather forecast accuracy: new barriers to tools for agricultural decision-making

Z. Guido, S. Lopus, Kurt B. Waldman, C. Hannah, Andrew Zimmer, N. Krell, Chris Knudson, L. Estes, Kelly Caylor, Tom Evans

Climatic Change

Journal article

Challenges and opportunities in precision irrigation decision-support systems for center pivots

Jingwen Zhang, K. Guan, B. Peng, Chongya Jiang, Wang Zhou, Yi Yang, M. Pan, T. Franz, D. Heeren, D. Rudnick, O. Abimbola, H. Kimm, Kelly Caylor, S. Good, M. Khanna, J. Gates, Yaping Cai

Environmental Research Letters

Journal article

Deforestation-induced warming over tropical mountain regions regulated by elevation

Zhenzhong Zeng, Dashan Wang, Long Yang, Jie Wu, A. Ziegler, Maofeng Liu, P. Ciais, T. Searchinger, Zong‐Liang Yang, Deliang Chen, Anping Chen, Laurent Z. X. Li, S. Piao, David Taylor, Xitian Cai, M. Pan, Liqing Peng, P. Lin, Drew Gower, Yu Feng, C. Zheng, K. Guan, Xu Lian, Tao Wang, Lang Wang, Sujong Jeong, Zhongwang Wei, J. Sheffield, Kelly Caylor, E. Wood

Nature Geoscience

Journal article

202011 publications

Climate sensitivity of water use by riparian woodlands at landscape scales

M. Mayes, Kelly Caylor, M. Singer, M. Singer, J. Stella, D. Roberts, P. Nagler

Hydrological Processes

Journal article

Dynamics of population growth in secondary cities across southern Africa.

Andrew Zimmer, Z. Guido, Cascade Tuholske, Alex Pakalniskis, S. Lopus, Kelly Caylor, T. Evans

Landscape Ecology

Journal article

Farmer Forecasts: Impacts of Seasonal Rainfall Expectations on Agricultural Decision- Making in Sub-Saharan Africa

Z. Guido, Andrew Zimmer, S. Lopus, C. Hannah, Drew Gower, Kurt B. Waldman, N. Krell, J. Sheffield, Kelly Caylor, T. Evans

Climate Risk Management

Journal article

Field-scale soil moisture bridges the spatial-scale gap between drought monitoring and agricultural yields

N. Vergopolan, S. Xiong, L. Estes, N. Wanders, N. Chaney, E. Wood, M. Konar, Kelly Caylor, H. Beck, N. Gatti, Tom Evans, J. Sheffield

Hydrology and Earth System Sciences

Journal article

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

S. Giroux, Inna Kouper, L. Estes, Jacob Schumacher, Kurt B. Waldman, J. Greenshields, Stephanie L. Dickinson, Kelly Caylor, T. Evans

Environmental Modelling & Software

Journal article

Accounting for training data error in machine learning applied to Earth observations

A. Elmes, S. H. Alemohammad, Ryan Avery, Kelly Caylor, J. R. Eastman, Lewis Fishgold, M. Friedl, Meha Jain, D. Kohli, J. L. Bayas, D. Lunga, J. McCarty, R. Pontius, A. Reinmann, J. Rogan, Lei Song, H. Stoynova, Su Ye, Zhuang-Fang Yi, L. Estes

Remote Sensing

Journal article

Smallholder farmers' use of mobile phone services in central Kenya

N. Krell, S. Giroux, Z. Guido, C. Hannah, S. Lopus, Kelly Caylor, T. Evans

Climate and Development

Journal article

Environmental heterogeneity and commodity sharing in smallholder agroecosystems

S. Giroux, P. McCord, S. Lopus, Drew Gower, J. Dell’Angelo, Stephanie L. Dickinson, Xiwei Chen, Kelly Caylor, T. Evans

PLoS One

Journal article

20194 publications

Cognitive Biases about Climate Variability in Smallholder Farming Systems in Zambia

Kurt B. Waldman, N. Vergopolan, S. Attari, J. Sheffield, L. Estes, Kelly Caylor, T. Evans

Weather, Climate & Society

Journal article

A global database of water vapor isotopes measured with high temporal resolution infrared laser spectroscopy

Zhongwang Wei, X. Lee, F. Aemisegger, M. Benetti, M. Berkelhammer, M. Casado, Kelly Caylor, E. Christner, C. Dyroff, O. García, Y. González, T. Griffis, N. Kurita, Jie Liang, M. Liang, G. Lin, D. Noone, K. Gribanov, N. Munksgaard, M. Schneider, F. Ritter, H. Steen‐Larsen, C. Vallet-Coulomb, X. Wen, Jonathon S. Wright, W. Xiao, K. Yoshimura

Scientific Data

Journal article

20187 publications

Dew deposition suppresses transpiration and carbon uptake in leaves

Cynthia Gerlein Safdi, M. Koohafkan, M. Chung, F. Rockwell, S. Thompson, Kelly Caylor

Agriculture & Forest Meteorology

Journal article

Comparing empirical and survey-based yield forecasts in a dryland agro-ecosystem

Yi Zhao, N. Vergopolan, K. Baylis, Jordan P. Blekking, Kelly Caylor, T. Evans, S. Giroux, J. Sheffield, L. Estes

Agricultural & Forest Meteorology

Journal article

The spatial and temporal domains of modern ecology

L. Estes, P. R. Elsen, T. Treuer, L. Ahmed, Kelly Caylor, Jason Chang, Jonathan J. Choi, Erle C. Ellis

Nature Ecology & Evolution

Journal article

Simulated sensitivity of African terrestrial ecosystem photosynthesis to rainfall frequency, intensity, and rainy season length

K. Guan, S. Good, Kelly Caylor, D. Medvigy, M. Pan, E. Wood, Hisashi Sato, M. Biasutti, Min Chen, A. Ahlström, A. Ahlström, Xiangtao Xu

Environmental Research Letters

Journal article

Measurements and Observations in the XXI century (MOXXI): innovation and multi-disciplinarity to sense the hydrological cycle.

F. Tauro, J. Selker, N. C. van de Giesen, T. Abrate, R. Uijlenhoet, M. Porfiri, S. Manfreda, Kelly Caylor, T. Moramarco, J. Benveniste, G. Ciraolo, L. Estes, A. Domeneghetti, M. Perks, C. Corbari, E. Rabiei, G. Ravazzani, H. Bogena, A. Harfouche, L. Brocca, A. Maltese, A. Wickert, A. Tarpanelli, Stephen Good, José M. Lopez Alcala, A. Petroselli, C. Cudennec, T. Blume, R. Hut, S. Grimaldi

Hydrological Sciences Journal

Journal article

201711 publications

A Large-Area, Spatially Continuous Assessment of Land Cover Map Error and Its Impact on Downstream Analyses

L. Estes, Peng Chen, Stephanie Debats, Tom Evans, Stefanus Ferreira, T. Kuemmerle, G. Ragazzo, J. Sheffield, A. Wolf, E. Wood, Kelly Caylor

Global Change Biology

Journal article

A platform for crowdsourcing the creation of representative, accurate landcover maps

L. Estes, D. McRitchie, Jonghyun Choi, Stephanie Debats, T. Evans, W. Guthe, D. Luo, G. Ragazzo, R. Zempleni, Kelly Caylor

Environmental Modelling & Software

Journal article

Triple oxygen isotope composition of leaf waters in Mpala, central Kenya

Shuning Li, Shuning Li, N. Levin, N. Levin, K. Soderberg, K. Dennis, Kelly Caylor

Earth & Planetary Science Letters

Journal article

Validation of SMAP surface soil moisture products with core validation sites

A. Colliander, T. Jackson, R. Bindlish, S. Chan, N. Das, Seungbum Kim, M. Cosh, R. Dunbar, L. Dang, L. Pashaian, J. Asanuma, K. Aida, A. Berg, T. Rowlandson, D. Bosch, T. Caldwell, Kelly Caylor, D. Goodrich, H. K. Jassar, E. López-Baeza, J. Martínez-Fernández, Á. González-Zamora, S. Livingston, H. Mcnairn, A. Pacheco, M. Moghaddam, C. Montzka, C. Notarnicola, G. Niedrist, T. Pellarin, J. Prueger, J. Pulliainen, K. Rautiainen, J. Ramos, M. Seyfried, P. Starks, Z. Su, Yijian Zeng, R. Velde, M. Thibeault, W. Dorigo, M. Vreugdenhil, J. Walker, Xiaoling Wu, A. Monerris, P. O’neill, D. Entekhabi, E. Njoku, S. Yueh

Remote Sensing of Environment

Journal article

20164 publications

Reconciling agriculture, carbon and biodiversity in a savannah transformation frontier

L. Estes, T. Searchinger, M. Spiegel, D. Tian, S. Sichinga, M. Mwale, L. Kehoe, T. Kuemmerle, A. Berven, N. Chaney, J. Sheffield, E. Wood, Kelly Caylor

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B - Biological Sciences

Journal article

20159 publications

Soil organic C and total N pools in the Kalahari: potential impacts of climate change on C sequestration in savannas

K. Dintwe, G. Okin, P. D’Odorico, Tanja Hrast, N. Mladenov, Alina Handorean, A. Bhattachan, Kelly Caylor

Plant and Soil

Journal article

Soil organic C and total N pools in the Kalahari: potential impacts of climate change on C sequestration in savannas

K. Dintwe, G. Okin, P. D’Odorico, Tanja Hrast, N. Mladenov, Alina Handorean, A. Bhattachan, Kelly Caylor

Plant and Soil

Journal article

Carbon stable isotopes suggest that hippopotamus-vectored nutrients subsidize aquatic consumers in an East African river

D. McCauley, T. Dawson, M. Power, J. Finlay, M. Ogada, Drew Gower, Kelly Caylor, W. Nyingi, J. M. Githaiga, J. Nyunja, Francis H. Joyce, R. Lewison, J. Brashares

Ecosphere

Journal article

Photosynthetic seasonality of global tropical forests constrained by hydroclimate

K. Guan, M. Pan, Haibin Li, A. Wolf, Jin Wu, D. Medvigy, Kelly Caylor, J. Sheffield, E. Wood, Y. Malhi, Miaoling Liang, J. Kimball, S. Saleska, J. Berry, J. Joiner, A. Lyapustin

Nature Geoscience

Journal article

Termite mounds can increase the robustness of dryland ecosystems to climatic change

J. A. Bonachela, R. Pringle, Efrat Sheffer, Tyler C. Coverdale, Jennifer A. Guyton, Kelly Caylor, S. Levin, C. Tarnita

Science

Journal article

Early assessment of SMAP Level 2/3 Soil Moisture Products over Core Validation Sites

A. Colliander, J. Martínez-Fernández, Seungbum Kim, Á. González-Zamora, X. Wu, M. Vreugdenhil, M. Cosh, Njoku, H. Mcnairn, E. López-Baeza, S. Dunbar, M. Moghaddam, L. Dang, M. Temimi, P. O’neill, A. Pacheco, H. K. Jassar, Kelly Caylor, Yijian Zeng, M. Spencer, M. Seyfried, Z. Su, R. Velde, J. Walker, G. Niedrist, W. Dorigo, D. Entekhabi, N. Das, S. Yueh, A. Monerris-Belda, T. Jackson, T. Pellarin, L. Pashaian, C. Notarnicola, J. Ramos, T. Rowlandson, C. Montzka, J. Pulliainen, K. Rautiainen, M. Thibeault, S. Chan, A. Berg, R. Bindlish

IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium

Conference paper

20149 publications

Deriving Vegetation Phenological Time and Trajectory Information Over Africa Using SEVIRI Daily LAI

K. Guan, D. Medvigy, E. Wood, Kelly Caylor, Shi Li, Sujong Jeong

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Journal article

An analysis of structure: biomass structure relationships for characteristic species of the western Kalahari, Botswana

T. Meyer, P. D’Odorico, G. Okin, H. Shugart, Kelly Caylor, F. O’Donnell, A. Bhattachan, K. Dintwe

African Journal of Ecology

Journal article

Modelling Vegetation Patterns in Semiarid Environments

S. Manfreda, Teresa Pizzolla, Kelly Caylor

Procedia Environmental Sciences

Journal article

20129 publications

Dryland ecohydrology and climate change: critical issues and technical advances

Lixin Wang, P. D’Odorico, J. Evans, D. Eldridge, M. Mccabe, Kelly Caylor, Lizzie King

Hydrology and Earth System Science

Journal article

20115 publications

Understanding the role of ecohydrological feedbacks in ecosystem-state change in drylands

L. Turnbull, B. Wilcox, J. Belnap, S. Ravi, P. D’Odorico, D. Childers, W. Gwenzi, G. Okin, J. Wainwright, Kelly Caylor, Teki Sankey

Ecohydrology

Journal article

Metabolic principles of river basin organization

I. Rodríguez‐Iturbe, Kelly Caylor, A. Rinaldo

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Journal article

Climatological determinants of woody cover in Africa

S. Good, Kelly Caylor

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Journal article

20102 publications

20054 publications

Determinants of woody cover in African savannnas: A continental scale analysis

M. Sankaran, N. Hanan, R. Scholes, J. Ratnam, D. Augustine, B. Cade, J. Gignoux, S. Higgins, X. Roux, F. Ludwig, J. Ardo, F. Banyikwa, Andries Bronn, G. Bucini, Kelly Caylor, M. Coughenour, A. Diouf, W. Ekaya, C.J.W. Feral, E. February, P. Frost, P. Hiernaux, H. Hrabar, K. Metzger, H. Prins, S. Ringrose, W. Sea, Jörg Tews, J. Worden, N. Zambatis

Nature

Journal article

20035 publications

Vegetation structure characteristics and relationships of Kalahari woodlands and savannas

J. Privette, Yuhong Tian, G. Roberts, R. Scholes, Y. Wang, Kelly Caylor, P. Frost, M. Mukelabai

Global Change Biology

Journal article

Tree spacing along the Kalahari Transect in southern Africa

Kelly Caylor, H. Shugart, P. Dowty, Thomas M. Smith

Journal of Arid Environments

Journal article

Regional fuel load for two climatically contrasting years in southern Africa

C. Hély, P. Dowty, S. Alleaume, Kelly Caylor, S. Korontzi, R. Swap, H. Shugart, C. Justice

Journal of Geophysical Research - Atmospheres

Journal article

Soil moisture and plant stress dynamics along the Kalahari precipitation gradient

A. Porporato, F. Laio, L. Ridolfi, Kelly Caylor, I. Rodríguez‐Iturbe

Journal of Geophysical Research - Atmospheres

Journal article

20023 publications

The Southern African Regional Science Initiative (SAFARI 2000): Wet season campaigns

L. Otter, R. Scholes, P. Dowty, J. Privette, Kelly Caylor, S. Ringrose, M. Mukelabai, P. Frost, N. Hanan, O. Totolo, E. Veenendaal

South African Journal of Science

Journal article

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