The Sacred Journey: A Memoir of Early Days

This book presents an interdisciplinary approach to study the dynamics of grassland social-ecological systems on the Mongolian plateau and social adaptation to environmental change. First, we estimated annual grassland net primary productivity (NPP) on the Mongolian plateau and analyzed the dynamics of grassland NPP in response to climate variability. Second, we analyzed the potential for using hyperspectral remote sensing to detect the quantity and quality of dominant grassland communities acro…