Enhancing the terrestrial ecosystem carbon sink (referred to as terrestrial C sink) is an
important way to slow down the continuous increase in atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) …

Quantifying global terrestrial photosynthesis is essential to understanding the global carbon
cycle and the climate system. Remote sensing has played a pivotal role in advancing our …

Abstract Nitrous oxide (N 2 O), like carbon dioxide, is a long-lived greenhouse gas that
accumulates in the atmosphere. Over the past 150 years, increasing atmospheric N 2 O …

Historically, human uses of land have transformed and fragmented ecosystems,, degraded
biodiversity,, disrupted carbon and nitrogen cycles, and added prodigious quantities of …

International trade separates consumption of goods from related environmental impacts,
including greenhouse gas emissions from agriculture and land-use change (together …

The permafrost zone is expected to be a substantial carbon source to the atmosphere, yet
large-scale models currently only simulate gradual changes in seasonally thawed soil …

A new release of the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology Earth System Model version 1.2
(MPI‐ESM1. 2) is presented. The development focused on correcting errors in and …

This paper presents an update and extension of HYDE, the History Database of the Global
Environment (HYDE version 3.2). HYDE is an internally consistent combination of historical …

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

The area of land use or land cover change obtained directly from a map may differ greatly
from the true area of change because of map classification error. An error-adjusted estimator …