Dr. Stephen Prince

 
Education

PhD  Plant Ecology, University of Lancaster, 1971
BSc.  Botany with Geology and Chemistry, University of Bristol, 1966

Research Interests

• Biogeography of large scale processes using remotely sensed observations and models
• Land surface processes at a continental and global scale
• Dryland degradation (desertification)
• Vegetation of Africa
• Mid-Atlantic Regional Earth Science Applications Center

• Deforestation and Degradation in Southern and Central African Savannas
• Generation of a Consistent Terrestrial Net Primary Production Data Set
• Global Vegetation Dynamics
• Inter-annual Land Surface Variation
• Remote Sensing for Resource Management: The Mid-Atlantic RESAC Consortium

Recent Papers

Wessels KJ, Prince SD, Malherbe J, Small J, Frost PE, VanZyl D,  2007. Can human-induced land degradation be distinguished from the effects of rainfall variability? A case study in South Africa. Journal of Arid Environments, 68, 271-297.

Wessels, K.J., Prince, S.D., Carroll M., Malherebe, J., 2007. The relevance of rangeland degradation in semi-arid north-eastern South Africa to the non-equilibrium theory. Ecological Applications 17(3), 815–827

Prince,S.D.., Wessels,K.J., Tucker, C.J. and Nicholson, S.E., 2007.Desertification in the Sahel: a reinterpretation of a reinterpretation Global Change Biology, 13: 7, 1308-1313, doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2486.2007.01356.x

Del Grosso, S., Parton, W. J., Stohlgren, T., Zheng, D., Bachelet, D., Hibbard, K., Prince, S. D., Olson, R. (2007). Abiotic controls on land cover type and net primary production. Global Ecology and Biogeography (in press)

Nagol, J., Vermote, E., Prince, S.D., 2008. Accuracy of Long Term AVHRR-NDVI Datasets. Remote Sensing of Environment, submitted.

Brown, M.E., Pinzon, J.E., Prince, S.D. 2008 Using satellite remote sensing data in a spatially explicit price model. Land Economics, 84 (2), 340-357.

Wessels, K.J., Prince, S.D., & Reshef, I. (2008). Mapping land degradation by comparison of vegetation production to spatially derived estimates of potential production. Journal of Arid Environments, 72, 1940-1949.

Nielsen, E. M., Prince, S.D., Koeln, G. (2008). Wetland change mapping for the U.S. mid-Atlantic region using an outlier detection technique, Remote Sensing of Environment, doi:10.1016/j.rse.2008.04.017

Lang, M. W., Kasischke, E.S., Prince, S. D., Pittman, K.W., (2008). Assessment of C-band synthetic aperture radar data for mapping and monitoring coastal plain forested wetlands in the Mid-Atlantic Region, U.S.A. Remote Sensing of Environment doi:10.1016/j.rse.2008.06.013