This research is partly funded by the China Scholarship Council (CSC, number 201306420005) and the Danish Council for Independent Research (DFF) Sapere Aude program under the project entitled “Earth Observation based Vegetation productivity and Land Degradation Trends in Global Drylands”. M. B. is the recipient of the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation program under the Marie Sklodowska-Curie Grant agreement (project number 656564). Y.Y.L. is the recipient of an Australian Research Council Discovery Early Career Researcher Award (DECRA) Fellowship (project number DE140100200). We thank the Centre de Suivi Ecologique (Senegal) and especially Abdoulaye Wele and Abdoul Aziz Diouf for collecting and providing the field data on woody cover and leaf biomass and Neha Joshi, University of Copenhagen, for helpful discussions on the properties of passive microwave and radar observations. Finally, the anonymous reviewers are thanked for their constructive comments.
Department of Geosciences and Natural Resource Management, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark; ARC Centre of Excellence for Climate Systems Science & Climate Change Research Centre, University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW, Australia
Recommended Citation:
Tian F.,Brandt M.,Liu Y.Y.,et al. Mapping gains and losses in woody vegetation across global tropical drylands[J]. Global Change Biology,2017-01-01,23(4)