The tropical forest carbon cycle and climate change

ETA Mitchard - Nature, 2018 - nature.com
Tropical forests make an approximately neutral contribution to the global carbon cycle, with
intact and recovering forests taking in as much carbon as is released through deforestation …

Remote sensing of the terrestrial carbon cycle: A review of advances over 50 years

J ** 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 …

Global increase in biomass carbon stock dominated by growth of northern young forests over past decade

H Yang, P Ciais, F Frappart, X Li, M Brandt… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Abstract Changes in terrestrial carbon storage under environmental and land-use changes
remain a critical source of uncertainty in regional and global carbon budgets. We generated …

Global maps of twenty-first century forest carbon fluxes

NL Harris, DA Gibbs, A Baccini, RA Birdsey… - Nature Climate …, 2021 - nature.com
Managing forests for climate change mitigation requires action by diverse stakeholders
undertaking different activities with overlap** objectives and spatial impacts. To date …

[HTML][HTML] Global carbon budget 2021

P Friedlingstein, MW Jones, M O'Sullivan… - Earth System …, 2022 - essd.copernicus.org
Accurate assessment of anthropogenic carbon dioxide (CO 2) emissions and their
redistribution among the atmosphere, ocean, and terrestrial biosphere in a changing climate …

Global priority areas for ecosystem restoration

BBN Strassburg, A Iribarrem, HL Beyer, CL Cordeiro… - Nature, 2020 - nature.com
Extensive ecosystem restoration is increasingly seen as being central to conserving
biodiversity and stabilizing the climate of the Earth. Although ambitious national and global …

A large but transient carbon sink from urbanization and rural depopulation in China

X Zhang, M Brandt, X Tong, P Ciais, Y Yue, X **ao… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
China has experienced unprecedented urbanization and associated rural depopulation
during recent decades alongside a massive increase in the total population. By using …

Aboveground biomass density models for NASA's Global Ecosystem Dynamics Investigation (GEDI) lidar mission

L Duncanson, JR Kellner, J Armston, R Dubayah… - Remote Sensing of …, 2022 - Elsevier
Abstract NASA's Global Ecosystem Dynamics Investigation (GEDI) is collecting spaceborne
full waveform lidar data with a primary science goal of producing accurate estimates of forest …

Carbon loss from forest degradation exceeds that from deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon

Y Qin, X **ao, JP Wigneron, P Ciais, M Brandt… - Nature Climate …, 2021 - nature.com
Spatial–temporal dynamics of aboveground biomass (AGB) and forest area affect the carbon
cycle, climate and biodiversity in the Brazilian Amazon. Here we investigate interannual …