Drought resilience of Australian rangelands under intense hydroclimatic variability

Publisher:
IEEE
Publication Type:
Conference Proceeding
Citation:
International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS), 2016, 2016-November, pp. 5467-5469
Issue Date:
2016-11-01
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© 2016 IEEE.Rangelands comprise ∼81% of Australia's landmass, extend over a broad range of climates and vegetation types, and provide important social-economical functions (Fig. 1). The climate of Australia's rangelands is extremely variable. This variability was reflected in recent events of extreme flooding immediately following one of the most intense droughts in history over the early 21st century [1,2]. These extreme climatic events provide an opportunity to assess how Australian rangelands respond to hydroclimatic variations, and further generalise knowledge regarding resilience of these ecosystems to contrasting drought and wet extremes.
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