Methane feedbacks to the global climate system in a warmer world

JF Dean, JJ Middelburg, T Röckmann… - Reviews of …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Methane (CH4) is produced in many natural systems that are vulnerable to change under a
warming climate, yet current CH4 budgets, as well as future shifts in CH4 emissions, have …

Pedotransfer functions in Earth system science: Challenges and perspectives

K Van Looy, J Bouma, M Herbst, J Koestel… - Reviews of …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Soil, through its various functions, plays a vital role in the Earth's ecosystems and provides
multiple ecosystem services to humanity. Pedotransfer functions (PTFs) are simple to …

Even modest climate change may lead to major transitions in boreal forests

PB Reich, R Bermudez, RA Montgomery, RL Rich… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
The sensitivity of forests to near-term warming and associated precipitation shifts remains
uncertain,,,,,,,–. Herein, using a 5-year open-air experiment in southern boreal forest, we …

ForestGEO: Understanding forest diversity and dynamics through a global observatory network

SJ Davies, I Abiem, KA Salim, S Aguilar, D Allen… - Biological …, 2021 - Elsevier
ForestGEO is a network of scientists and long-term forest dynamics plots (FDPs) spanning
the Earth's major forest types. ForestGEO's mission is to advance understanding of the …

Where should China practice forestry in a warming world?

L Zhang, P Sun, F Huettmann, S Liu - Global Change Biology, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
As a nature‐based and cost‐effective solution, forestation plays a crucial role in combating
global warming, biodiversity collapse, environmental degradation, and global well‐being …

Younger trees in the upper canopy are more sensitive but also more resilient to drought

TF Au, JT Maxwell, SM Robeson, J Li, SMO Siani… - Nature climate …, 2022 - nature.com
As forest demographics are altered by the global decline of old trees and reforestation
efforts, younger trees are expected to have an increasingly important influence on carbon …

Global patterns of drought recovery

CR Schwalm, WRL Anderegg, AM Michalak, JB Fisher… - Nature, 2017 - nature.com
Drought, a recurring phenomenon with major impacts on both human and natural systems,,,
is the most widespread climatic extreme that negatively affects the land carbon sink …

A vital role of chitosan nanoparticles in improvisation the drought stress tolerance in Catharanthus roseus (L.) through biochemical and gene expression modulation

EF Ali, AM El-Shehawi, OHM Ibrahim… - Plant Physiology and …, 2021 - Elsevier
Drought is a main abiotic stress that restricts plant growth and development. The increased
global demand of anti-cancer alkaloids extracted from periwinkle (Catharanthus roseus) is …

The world‐wide 'fast–slow'plant economics spectrum: a traits manifesto

PB Reich - Journal of ecology, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
The leaf economics spectrum (LES) provides a useful framework for examining species
strategies as shaped by their evolutionary history. However, that spectrum, as originally …

A global method for calculating plant CSR ecological strategies applied across biomes world‐wide

S Pierce, D Negreiros, BEL Cerabolini… - Functional …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Summary Competitor, stress‐tolerator, ruderal (CSR) theory is a prominent plant functional
strategy scheme previously applied to local floras. Globally, the wide geographic and …