Global and regional trends and drivers of fire under climate change

MW Jones, JT Abatzoglou, S Veraverbeke… - Reviews of …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Recent wildfire outbreaks around the world have prompted concern that climate change is
increasing fire incidence, threatening human livelihood and biodiversity, and perpetuating …

Priority science can accelerate agroforestry as a natural climate solution

DE Terasaki Hart, S Yeo, M Almaraz, D Beillouin… - Nature Climate …, 2023 - nature.com
The expansion of agroforestry could provide substantial climate change mitigation (up to
0.31 Pg C yr− 1), comparable to other prominent natural climate solutions such as …

The three major axes of terrestrial ecosystem function

M Migliavacca, T Musavi, MD Mahecha, JA Nelson… - Nature, 2021 - nature.com
The leaf economics spectrum, and the global spectrum of plant forms and functions revealed
fundamental axes of variation in plant traits, which represent different ecological strategies …

Sub-continental-scale carbon stocks of individual trees in African drylands

C Tucker, M Brandt, P Hiernaux, A Kariryaa… - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
The distribution of dryland trees and their density, cover, size, mass and carbon content are
not well known at sub-continental to continental scales,,,,,,,,,,,,–. This information is important …

Siberian carbon sink reduced by forest disturbances

L Fan, JP Wigneron, P Ciais, J Chave, M Brandt… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Siberian forests are generally thought to have acted as an important carbon sink over recent
decades, but exposure to severe droughts and fire disturbances may have impacted their …

Deforestation-induced climate change reduces carbon storage in remaining tropical forests

Y Li, PM Brando, DC Morton, DM Lawrence… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Biophysical effects from deforestation have the potential to amplify carbon losses but are
often neglected in carbon accounting systems. Here we use both Earth system model …

The effectiveness of global protected areas for climate change mitigation

L Duncanson, M Liang, V Leitold, J Armston… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Forests play a critical role in stabilizing Earth's climate. Establishing protected areas (PAs)
represents one approach to forest conservation, but PAs were rarely created to mitigate …

Changes in land use and management led to a decline in Eastern Europe's terrestrial carbon sink

K Winkler, H Yang, R Ganzenmüller, R Fuchs… - … Earth & Environment, 2023 - nature.com
Land-based mitigation is essential in reducing net carbon emissions. Yet, the attribution of
carbon fluxes remains highly uncertain, in particular for the forest-rich region of Eastern …

The overlooked contribution of trees outside forests to tree cover and woody biomass across Europe

S Liu, M Brandt, T Nord-Larsen, J Chave, F Reiner… - Science …, 2023 - science.org
Trees are an integral part in European landscapes, but only forest resources are
systematically assessed by national inventories. The contribution of urban and agricultural …

Comparable biophysical and biogeochemical feedbacks on warming from tropical moist forest degradation

L Zhu, W Li, P Ciais, J He, A Cescatti, M Santoro… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Tropical forests have undergone extensive deforestation and degradation during the past
few decades, but the area and the carbon loss due to degradation could be larger than the …