Publications

Manuscript in prep

Song, L., Frazier, A.E., Kedron, P., Araujo, D.S., Enquist, B.J., Maitner, B., Merow, C., Moulatlet, G.M., Nikolopoulos, E.I. and Roehrdanz, P.R. (In prep). Multifaceted effects of global change on future mammal distributions revealed by explainable modeling..

Bohner, T., Duncanson, L., Nikolopoulos, E. I., Frazier, A. E., Araujo, D. S. A., Brock, C., Hinojo-Hinojo, C., Krieger, J. M., Maitner, B., Merow, C., Moulatlet, G. M., Roehrdanz, P. R., Song, L., & Enquist, B. J. (In prep). Future drought and mortality risk for the world’s tallest forests.

Manuscripts in review/revision

Song, L., Frazier, A. E., Estes, A. B., & Estes, L. D. (Under review). Landscape connectivity informs critical linkage zones for the conservation of African savanna elephant (Loxodonta africana) in Tanzania. [Preprint]

Song, L., Frazier, A. E., Crawford, C. L., Estes, A. B., & Estes, L. D. (Under review). Optimizing future cropland allocation in a biodiverse savanna by integrating agricultural benefits and ecological costs. [Preprint]

Peer-reviewed Publications

Araujo, D. S., Enquist, B. J., Frazier, A. E., Merow, C., Roehrdanz, P. R., Moulatlet, G. M., Zvoleff, A., Song, L., Maitner, B., & Nikolopoulos, E. I. (2025). Global Future Drought Layers Based on Downscaled CMIP6 Models and Multiple Socioeconomic Pathways. Scientific Data, 12(1), 295.

Khallaghi, S., Abedi, R., Abou Ali, H., Alemohammad, H., Dziedzorm Asipunu, M., Alatise, I., Ha, N., Luo, B., Mai, C., Song, L., Wussah, A. O., Xiong, S., Yao, Y.-T., Zhang, Q., & Estes, L. D. (2025). Generalization Enhancement Strategies to Enable Cross-Year Cropland Mapping with Convolutional Neural Networks Trained Using Historical Samples. Remote Sensing, 17(3). [PDF].

Frazier, A. E., & Song, L. (2025). Artificial Intelligence in Landscape Ecology: Recent Advances, Perspectives, and Opportunities. Current Landscape Ecology Reports, 10(1), 1-13. [PDF]

Song, L., Estes, A. B., & Estes, L. D. (2023). A super-ensemble approach to map land cover types with high resolution over data-sparse African savanna landscapes. International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation, 116, 103152. [PDF] [CODE] [DATA]

Song, L., & Estes, L. (2023). itsdm: Isolation forest-based presence-only species distribution modelling and explanation in r. Methods in Ecology and Evolution, 14(3), 831-840. [PDF] [CODE] [DATA]

Estes, L., Ye, S., Song, L., Luo, B., Eastman, J. R., Meng, Z., … & Caylor, K. K (2021). High resolution, annual maps of field boundaries for smallholder-dominated croplands at national scales. Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence, 164. [PDF]

Elmes, A., Estes, L., Avery, R., Caylor, K., …, Song, L. … & Lunga, D. (2019). Accounting for training data error in machine learning applied to Earth observations. Remote sensing, 12(6), 1034. [PDF]

Shi, Y., & Song, L. (2015). Spatial Downscaling of Monthly TRMM Precipitation Based on EVI and Other Geospatial Variables Over the Tibetan Plateau From 2001 to 2012. Mountain Research and Development, 35(2), 180-194. [PDF]

Shi, Y., Song, L., Xia, Z., Lin, Y., Myneni, R. B., Choi, S., … & Yang, F. (2015). Mapping Annual Precipitation across Mainland China in the Period 2001-2010 from TRMM3B43 Product Using Spatial Downscaling Approach. Remote Sensing, 7(5), 5849-5878. [PDF]

Peer-reviewed conference proceedings

Song, L., Frazier, A.E., Kedron, P., Araujo, D.S., Cui, D., Enquist, B.J., Maitner, B., Merow, C., Moulatlet, G.M., Nikolopoulos, E.I. and Roehrdanz, P.R., (2024). Explainable artificial intelligence to interpret spatially-explicit impacts of future climate change on species distribution. In I-GUIDE Forum. October 2024.