Novel fine-scale aerial mapping approach quantifies grassland weed cover dynamics and response to management

• Carolyn M. Malmstrom ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: carolynm@msu.edu

  Affiliations Department of Plant Biology, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan, United States of America, Center for Global Change and Earth Observations, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan, United States of America, Graduate Program in Ecology, Evolutionary Biology, and Behavior, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan, United States of America

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8260-729X

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• H. Scott Butterfield,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation The Nature Conservancy, San Francisco, California, United States of America

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• Laura Planck,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Current address: Quantum Spatial Inc., Portland, Oregon, United States of America

  Affiliation Department of Plant Biology, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan, United States of America

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• Christopher W. Long,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Plant Biology, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan, United States of America

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• Valerie T. Eviner

  Roles Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Plant Sciences, University of California, Davis, California, United States of America

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