Tropical, temperate, and boreal forests are critical components of the climate system, and
the ecosystem services they provide are essential for our society (Bonan et al., 1992, Bonan …

Summary The UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration offers immense potential to return
hundreds of millions of hectares of degraded tropical landscapes to functioning ecosystems …

Earth's forests harbor extensive biodiversity and are currently a major carbon sink. Forest
conservation and restoration can help mitigate climate change; however, climate change …

The globally important carbon sink of intact, old-growth tropical humid forests is declining
because of climate change, deforestation and degradation from fire and logging …

Intact tropical rainforests have been exposed to severe droughts in recent decades, which
may threaten their integrity, their ability to sequester carbon, and their capacity to provide …

Global fluctuations in annual land carbon uptake (NEEIAV) depend on water and
temperature variability, yet debate remains about local and seasonal controls of the global …

Carbon dioxide removal (CDR) is essential to achieve ambitious climate goals limiting
global warming to less than 1.5° C, and likely for achieving the 1.5° C target. This study …

Terrestrial ecosystem resilience is crucial for maintaining the structural and functional
stability of ecosystems following disturbances. However, changes in resilience over the past …

Habitat structural complexity is an emergent property of ecosystems that directly shapes their
biodiversity, functioning and resilience to disturbance. Yet despite its importance, we …

Tropical ecosystems play an important role in the environment. They provide multiple
ecosystem services, such as carbon capture and sequestration, food supply, and climate …