[HTML][HTML] Need and vision for global medium-resolution Landsat and Sentinel-2 data products

VC Radeloff, DP Roy, MA Wulder, M Anderson… - Remote Sensing of …, 2024‏ - Elsevier
Global changes in climate and land use are threatening natural ecosystems, biodiversity,
and the ecosystem services people rely on. This is why it is necessary to track and monitor …

Irreversible entropy production: From classical to quantum

GT Landi, M Paternostro - Reviews of Modern Physics, 2021‏ - APS
Entropy production is a key quantity in any finite-time thermodynamic process. It is intimately
tied with the fundamental laws of thermodynamics, embodying a tool to extend …

A review of the major threats and challenges to global bat conservation

WF Frick, T Kingston, J Flanders - … of the new York Academy of …, 2020‏ - Wiley Online Library
Bats are an ecologically and taxonomically diverse group accounting for roughly a fifth of
mammalian diversity worldwide. Many of the threats bats face (eg, habitat loss, bushmeat …

Tropical forests are home to over half of the world's vertebrate species

R Pillay, M Venter, J Aragon‐Osejo… - Frontiers in Ecology …, 2022‏ - Wiley Online Library
Tropical forests are renowned for their astonishing diversity of life, but the fundamental
question of how many species occur in tropical forests remains unanswered. Using …

[HTML][HTML] Land cover changes in the Brazilian Cerrado and Caatinga biomes from 1990 to 2010 based on a systematic remote sensing sampling approach

R Beuchle, RC Grecchi, YE Shimabukuro, R Seliger… - Applied …, 2015‏ - Elsevier
The main objective of our study was to provide consistent information on land cover changes
between the years 1990 and 2010 for the Cerrado and Caatinga Brazilian seasonal biomes …

Recent land use change in the Western Corn Belt threatens grasslands and wetlands

CK Wright, MC Wimberly - Proceedings of the National Academy of …, 2013‏ - pnas.org
In the US Corn Belt, a recent doubling in commodity prices has created incentives for
landowners to convert grassland to corn and soybean crop**. Here, we use land cover …

The Anthropocene: conceptual and historical perspectives

W Steffen, J Grinevald, P Crutzen… - … Transactions of the …, 2011‏ - royalsocietypublishing.org
The human imprint on the global environment has now become so large and active that it
rivals some of the great forces of Nature in its impact on the functioning of the Earth system …