CTFS‐Forest GEO: a worldwide network monitoring forests in an era of global change

KJ Anderson‐Teixeira, SJ Davies… - Global change …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Global change is impacting forests worldwide, threatening biodiversity and ecosystem
services including climate regulation. Understanding how forests respond is critical to forest …

An A mazonian rainforest and its fragments as a laboratory of global change

WF Laurance, JLC Camargo, PM Fearnside… - Biological …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
We synthesize findings from one of the world's largest and longest‐running experimental
investigations, the B iological D ynamics of F orest F ragments P roject (BDFFP). Spanning …

Tropical forests are a net carbon source based on aboveground measurements of gain and loss

A Baccini, W Walker, L Carvalho, M Farina… - Science, 2017 - science.org
The carbon balance of tropical ecosystems remains uncertain, with top-down atmospheric
studies suggesting an overall sink and bottom-up ecological approaches indicating a …

21st Century drought-related fires counteract the decline of Amazon deforestation carbon emissions

LEOC Aragão, LO Anderson, MG Fonseca… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
Tropical carbon emissions are largely derived from direct forest clearing processes. Yet,
emissions from drought-induced forest fires are, usually, not included in national-level …

On underestimation of global vulnerability to tree mortality and forest die‐off from hotter drought in the Anthropocene

CD Allen, DD Breshears, NG McDowell - Ecosphere, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Patterns, mechanisms, projections, and consequences of tree mortality and associated
broad‐scale forest die‐off due to drought accompanied by warmer temperatures—“hotter …

Improving above ground biomass estimates of Southern Africa dryland forests by combining Sentinel-1 SAR and Sentinel-2 multispectral imagery

RM David, NJ Rosser, DNM Donoghue - Remote Sensing of Environment, 2022 - Elsevier
Having the ability to make accurate assessments of above ground biomass (AGB) at high
spatial resolution is invaluable for the management of dryland forest resources in areas at …

[HTML][HTML] Assessing changes in mangrove forest cover and carbon stocks in the Lower Mekong Region using Google Earth Engine

M Bajaj, N Sasaki, TW Tsusaka, M Venkatappa… - Innovation and Green …, 2024 - Elsevier
Abstract The Lower Mekong Region (LMR) faces significant loss of mangrove forests, yet
limited studies have explored this decline in the region. Here, we employ Google Earth …

[書籍][B] Second growth: the promise of tropical forest regeneration in an age of deforestation

RL Chazdon - 2019 - degruyter.com
For decades, conservation and research initiatives in tropical forests have focused almost
exclusively on old-growth forests because scientists believed that these “pristine” …

Defaunation affects carbon storage in tropical forests

C Bello, M Galetti, MA Pizo, LFS Magnago… - Science …, 2015 - science.org
Carbon storage is widely acknowledged as one of the most valuable forest ecosystem
services. Deforestation, logging, fragmentation, fire, and climate change have significant …

Sensitivity of tropical carbon to climate change constrained by carbon dioxide variability

PM Cox, D Pearson, BB Booth, P Friedlingstein… - Nature, 2013 - nature.com
The release of carbon from tropical forests may exacerbate future climate change, but the
magnitude of the effect in climate models remains uncertain. Coupled climate–carbon-cycle …