Boreal forest health and global change

S Gauthier, P Bernier, T Kuuluvainen, AZ Shvidenko… - Science, 2015‏ - science.org
The boreal forest, one of the largest biomes on Earth, provides ecosystem services that
benefit society at levels ranging from local to global. Currently, about two-thirds of the area …

[HTML][HTML] Modeling carbon storage in urban vegetation: Progress, challenges, and opportunities

Q Zhuang, Z Shao, J Gong, D Li, X Huang… - International Journal of …, 2022‏ - Elsevier
Urban vegetation (UV) and its carbon storage capacity are critical for terrestrial carbon
cycling and global sustainable development goals (SDGs). With complex spatial distribution …

Exceeding 1.5 C global warming could trigger multiple climate tip** points

DI Armstrong McKay, A Staal, JF Abrams… - Science, 2022‏ - science.org
Climate tip** points occur when change in a part of the climate system becomes self-
perpetuating beyond a warming threshold, leading to substantial Earth system impacts …

The biomass distribution on Earth

YM Bar-On, R Phillips, R Milo - Proceedings of the National …, 2018‏ - National Acad Sciences
A census of the biomass on Earth is key for understanding the structure and dynamics of the
biosphere. However, a global, quantitative view of how the biomass of different taxa …

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 …

[HTML][HTML] The global forest above-ground biomass pool for 2010 estimated from high-resolution satellite observations

M Santoro, O Cartus, N Carvalhais… - Earth System …, 2021‏ - essd.copernicus.org
The terrestrial forest carbon pool is poorly quantified, in particular in regions with low forest
inventory capacity. By combining multiple satellite observations of synthetic aperture radar …

Unexpectedly large impact of forest management and grazing on global vegetation biomass

KH Erb, T Kastner, C Plutzar, ALS Bais, N Carvalhais… - Nature, 2018‏ - nature.com
Carbon stocks in vegetation have a key role in the climate system,,,. However, the
magnitude, patterns and uncertainties of carbon stocks and the effect of land use on the …

Mechanistic evidence for tracking the seasonality of photosynthesis with solar-induced fluorescence

TS Magney, DR Bowling, BA Logan… - Proceedings of the …, 2019‏ - National Acad Sciences
Northern hemisphere evergreen forests assimilate a significant fraction of global
atmospheric CO2 but monitoring large-scale changes in gross primary production (GPP) in …

Imminent loss of climate space for permafrost peatlands in Europe and Western Siberia

RE Fewster, PJ Morris, RF Ivanovic… - Nature Climate …, 2022‏ - nature.com
Human-induced climate warming by 2100 is expected to thaw large expanses of northern
permafrost peatlands. However, the spatio-temporal dynamics of permafrost peatland thaw …

Global covariation of carbon turnover times with climate in terrestrial ecosystems

N Carvalhais, M Forkel, M Khomik, J Bellarby, M Jung… - Nature, 2014‏ - nature.com
The response of the terrestrial carbon cycle to climate change is among the largest
uncertainties affecting future climate change projections,. The feedback between the …