[HTML][HTML] State of wildfires 2023–2024

MW Jones, DI Kelley, CA Burton… - Earth System …, 2024 - essd.copernicus.org
Climate change contributes to the increased frequency and intensity of wildfires globally,
with significant impacts on society and the environment. However, our understanding of the …

Critical transitions in the Amazon forest system

BM Flores, E Montoya, B Sakschewski, N Nascimento… - Nature, 2024 - nature.com
The possibility that the Amazon forest system could soon reach a tip** point, inducing
large-scale collapse, has raised global concern,–. For 65 million years, Amazonian forests …

Prevalence and drivers of abrupt vegetation shifts in global drylands

M Berdugo, JJ Gaitán, M Delgado-Baquerizo… - Proceedings of the …, 2022 - pnas.org
The constant provision of plant productivity is integral to supporting the liability of
ecosystems and human wellbeing in global drylands. Drylands are paradigmatic examples …

Global atmospheric methane uptake by upland tree woody surfaces

V Gauci, SR Pangala, A Shenkin, J Barba, D Bastviken… - Nature, 2024 - nature.com
Methane is an important greenhouse gas, but the role of trees in the methane budget
remains uncertain. Although it has been shown that wetland and some upland trees can …

More than one quarter of Africa's tree cover is found outside areas previously classified as forest

F Reiner, M Brandt, X Tong, D Skole, A Kariryaa… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
The consistent monitoring of trees both inside and outside of forests is key to sustainable
land management. Current monitoring systems either ignore trees outside forests or are too …

[HTML][HTML] Surface urban heat island intensity in five major cities of Bangladesh: Patterns, drivers and trends

A Dewan, G Kiselev, D Botje, GI Mahmud… - Sustainable Cities and …, 2021 - Elsevier
There is currently a lack of knowledge regarding the spatiotemporal variation of day and
night surface urban heat island intensity (SUHII) in the major cities of Bangladesh. These …

Harmonized global maps of above and belowground biomass carbon density in the year 2010

SA Spawn, CC Sullivan, TJ Lark, HK Gibbs - Scientific Data, 2020 - nature.com
Remotely sensed biomass carbon density maps are widely used for myriad scientific and
policy applications, but all remain limited in scope. They often only represent a single …

[HTML][HTML] BESSv2. 0: A satellite-based and coupled-process model for quantifying long-term global land–atmosphere fluxes

B Li, Y Ryu, C Jiang, B Dechant, J Liu, Y Yan… - Remote Sensing of …, 2023 - Elsevier
Recent remote-sensing-based global carbon, water and energy budgets over land still
include considerable uncertainties. Most existing flux products of terrestrial carbon, water …

[HTML][HTML] Hotspots of snow cover changes in global mountain regions over 2000–2018

C Notarnicola - Remote Sensing of Environment, 2020 - Elsevier
Quantification of snow cover changes and related phenology in global mountain areas has
not been consistently addressed, despite the well-known importance of the snow in this …

A global database of soil plant available phosphorus

RW McDowell, A Noble, P Pletnyakov, PM Haygarth - Scientific Data, 2023 - nature.com
Soil phosphorus drives food production that is needed to feed a growing global population.
However, knowledge of plant available phosphorus stocks at a global scale is poor but …