BACKGROUND In the Anthropocene, there is a need to better understand the catastrophic effects that climate and land-use change may have on ecosystems, Earth system …
The rehabilitation and restoration of land is a key strategy to recover services-goods and resources-ecosystems offer to the humankind. This paper reviews key examples to …
There is growing concern over tip** points arising in ecosystems because of the crossing of environmental thresholds. Tip** points lead to abrupt and possibly irreversible shifts …
Responses of terrestrial ecosystems to climate change have been explored in many regions worldwide. While continued drying and warming may alter process rates and deteriorate the …
Understanding how drylands respond to ongoing environmental change is extremely important for global sustainability. In this review, we discuss how biotic attributes, climate …
GQ Sun, L Li, J Li, C Liu, YP Wu, S Gao, Z Wang… - Physics of Life …, 2022 - Elsevier
Climate change has become increasingly severe, threatening ecosystem stability and, in particular, biodiversity. As a typical indicator of ecosystem evolution, vegetation growth is …
Most ecological studies of the effects of climate on species are based on average conditions above ground level (measured by meteorological stations) averaged across 100 km 2 or …
Many systems on our planet shift abruptly and irreversibly from the desired state to an undesired state when forced across a “tip** point”. Some examples are mass extinctions …
Water scarcity contributes to the poverty of around one-third of the world's people. Despite many benefits, tree planting in dry regions is often discouraged by concerns that trees …
How do we explain the remarkably abrupt changes that sometimes occur in nature and society--and can we predict why and when they happen? This book offers a comprehensive …