Global Dryland Ecosystem Programme (Global-DEP): An international cooperative social-ecological research and engagement initiative to enhance understanding and responding to climate change impacts across dryland communities

Dennis S Ojima, Colorado State University, Natural Resource Ecology Laboratory, Fort Collins, CO, United States, Bojie Fu, State Key Laboratory of Urban and Regional Ecology, Research Center for Eco-Environmental Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China, Mark Stafford-Smith, CSIRO Canberra, Canberra, Australia and Xiubo Yu, CAS Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijng, China