Protect, manage and then restore lands for climate mitigation

SC Cook-Patton, CR Drever, BW Griscom… - Nature Climate …, 2021 - nature.com
Limited time and resources remain to constrain the climate crisis. Natural climate solutions
represent promising options to protect, manage and restore natural lands for additional …

[HTML][HTML] Historical background and current developments for map** burned area from satellite Earth observation

E Chuvieco, F Mouillot, GR Van der Werf… - Remote Sensing of …, 2019 - Elsevier
Fire has a diverse range of impacts on Earth's physical and social systems. Accurate and up
to date information on areas affected by fire is critical to better understand drivers of fire …

Map** carbon accumulation potential from global natural forest regrowth

SC Cook-Patton, SM Leavitt, D Gibbs, NL Harris… - Nature, 2020 - nature.com
To constrain global warming, we must strongly curtail greenhouse gas emissions and
capture excess atmospheric carbon dioxide,. Regrowing natural forests is a prominent …

Landscape management strategies for multifunctionality and social equity

M Neyret, S Peter, G Le Provost, S Boch… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Increasing pressure on land resources necessitates landscape management strategies that
simultaneously deliver multiple benefits to numerous stakeholder groups with competing …

[HTML][HTML] Earth system impacts of the European arrival and Great Dying in the Americas after 1492

A Koch, C Brierley, MM Maslin, SL Lewis - Quaternary Science Reviews, 2019 - Elsevier
Human impacts prior to the Industrial Revolution are not well constrained. We investigate
whether the decline in global atmospheric CO 2 concentration by 7–10 ppm in the late …

Climate policy co-benefits: a review

M Karlsson, E Alfredsson, N Westling - Climate Policy, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
Concern over mitigation costs impedes the adoption of the climate policies needed to
achieve agreed global warming targets. While costs are important to consider, so are …

How should beta-diversity inform biodiversity conservation?

JB Socolar, JJ Gilroy, WE Kunin, DP Edwards - Trends in ecology & …, 2016 - cell.com
To design robust protected area networks, accurately measure species losses, or
understand the processes that maintain species diversity, conservation science must …

Natural regeneration as a tool for large‐scale forest restoration in the tropics: prospects and challenges

RL Chazdon, MR Guariguata - Biotropica, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
A major global effort to enable cost‐effective natural regeneration is needed to achieve
ambitious forest and landscape restoration goals. Natural forest regeneration can potentially …

Rural land abandonment is too ephemeral to provide major benefits for biodiversity and climate

CL Crawford, H Yin, VC Radeloff, DS Wilcove - Science advances, 2022 - science.org
Hundreds of millions of hectares of cropland have been abandoned globally since 1950 due
to demographic, economic, and environmental changes. This abandonment has been seen …

Increasing human dominance of tropical forests

SL Lewis, DP Edwards, D Galbraith - Science, 2015 - science.org
Tropical forests house over half of Earth's biodiversity and are an important influence on the
climate system. These forests are experiencing escalating human influence, altering their …