Forest resilience and tip** points at different spatio‐temporal scales: approaches and challenges

CPO Reyer, N Brouwers, A Rammig… - Journal of …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Anthropogenic global change compromises forest resilience, with profound impacts to
ecosystem functions and services. This synthesis paper reflects on the current …

When tree rings go global: Challenges and opportunities for retro-and prospective insight

F Babst, P Bodesheim, N Charney, AD Friend… - Quaternary Science …, 2018 - Elsevier
The demand for large-scale and long-term information on tree growth is increasing rapidly
as environmental change research strives to quantify and forecast the impacts of continued …

ESA CCI Soil Moisture for improved Earth system understanding: State-of-the art and future directions

W Dorigo, W Wagner, C Albergel, F Albrecht… - Remote Sensing of …, 2017 - Elsevier
Abstract Climate Data Records of soil moisture are fundamental for improving our
understanding of long-term dynamics in the coupled water, energy, and carbon cycles over …

Detection and attribution of vegetation greening trend in China over the last 30 years

S Piao, G Yin, J Tan, L Cheng, M Huang… - Global change …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
The reliable detection and attribution of changes in vegetation growth is a prerequisite for
the development of strategies for the sustainable management of ecosystems. This is an …

Recent trends and drivers of regional sources and sinks of carbon dioxide

S Sitch, P Friedlingstein, N Gruber, SD Jones… - …, 2015 - bg.copernicus.org
The land and ocean absorb on average just over half of the anthropogenic emissions of
carbon dioxide (CO 2) every year. These CO 2" sinks" are modulated by climate change and …

[PDF][PDF] IPCC Fifth Assessment Report: Chapter 24 Asia

Y Hijioka, E Lin, JJ Pereira… - … : Part B: Regional …, 2014 - nagasaki-u.repo.nii.ac.jp
Warming trends and increasing temperature extremes have been observed across most of
the Asian region over the past century (high confidence).{24.3} Increasing numbers of warm …

The influence of sampling design on tree‐ring‐based quantification of forest growth

C Nehrbass‐Ahles, F Babst, S Klesse… - Global change …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Tree‐rings offer one of the few possibilities to empirically quantify and reconstruct forest
growth dynamics over years to millennia. Contemporaneously with the growing scientific …

Vegetation dynamics and responses to recent climate change in **njiang using leaf area index as an indicator

S Liang, Q Yi, J Liu - Ecological indicators, 2015 - Elsevier
There is a strong signal showing that the climate in **njiang, China has changed from warm-
dry to warm-wet since the early 1980s, leading to an increase in vegetation cover. Based on …

Diverse relationships between forest growth and the Normalized Difference Vegetation Index at a global scale

SM Vicente-Serrano, JJ Camarero, JM Olano… - Remote Sensing of …, 2016 - Elsevier
This study compared the densest available database of tree-ring growth with the longest
Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) information available at the global scale to …

Global warming-related tree growth decline and mortality on the north-eastern Tibetan plateau

E Liang, C Leuschner, C Dulamsuren, B Wagner… - Climatic Change, 2016 - Springer
Semi-arid forests at the limit of their existence close to the Gobi Desert in Inner Asia might be
vulnerable to warming-induced drought stress. Yet, not much is known about the impact of …