Earth's forests face grave challenges in the Anthropocene, including hotter droughts
increasingly associated with widespread forest die-off events. But despite the vital …

Societal Impact Statement Trees play a critical role for people and the planet. Numerous
studies have demonstrated that the presence of trees and urban nature can improve …

ForestGEO is a network of scientists and long-term forest dynamics plots (FDPs) spanning
the Earth's major forest types. ForestGEO's mission is to advance understanding of the …

Forest mortality is accelerating due to climate change and the largest trees may be at the
greatest risk, threatening critical ecological, economic, and social benefits. Here, we …

Accurately quantifying tree and forest structure is important for monitoring and
understanding terrestrial ecosystem functioning in a changing climate. The emergence of …

Severe drought can cause lagged effects on tree physiology that negatively impact forest
functioning for years. These “drought legacy effects” have been widely documented in tree …

Fire refugia are landscape elements that remain unburned or minimally affected by fire,
thereby supporting postfire ecosystem function, biodiversity, and resilience to disturbances …

Several upcoming satellite missions have core science requirements to produce data for
accurate forest aboveground biomass map**. Largely because of these mission datasets …

Climate change and loss of biodiversity are widely recognized as the foremost
environmental challenges of our time. Forests annually sequester large quantities of …

Large-diameter trees store disproportionally massive amounts of carbon and are a major
driver of carbon cycle dynamics in forests worldwide. In the temperate forests of the western …