Global and regional trends and drivers of fire under climate change

MW Jones, JT Abatzoglou, S Veraverbeke… - Reviews of …, 2022‏ - Wiley Online Library
Recent wildfire outbreaks around the world have prompted concern that climate change is
increasing fire incidence, threatening human livelihood and biodiversity, and perpetuating …

Forest microclimates and climate change: Importance, drivers and future research agenda

P De Frenne, J Lenoir, M Luoto… - Global Change …, 2021‏ - Wiley Online Library
Forest microclimates contrast strongly with the climate outside forests. To fully understand
and better predict how forests' biodiversity and functions relate to climate and climate …

The environmental impacts of palm oil in context

E Meijaard, TM Brooks, KM Carlson, EM Slade… - Nature plants, 2020‏ - nature.com
Abstract Delivering the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) requires balancing
demands on land between agriculture (SDG 2) and biodiversity (SDG 15). The production of …

Creation of forest edges has a global impact on forest vertebrates

M Pfeifer, V Lefebvre, CA Peres, C Banks-Leite… - Nature, 2017‏ - nature.com
Forest edges influence more than half of the world's forests and contribute to worldwide
declines in biodiversity and ecosystem functions. However, predicting these declines is …

A review of the ecosystem functions in oil palm plantations, using forests as a reference system

C Dislich, AC Keyel, J Salecker, Y Kisel… - Biological …, 2017‏ - Wiley Online Library
Oil palm plantations have expanded rapidly in recent decades. This large‐scale land‐use
change has had great ecological, economic, and social impacts on both the areas converted …

Global variation in diurnal asymmetry in temperature, cloud cover, specific humidity and precipitation and its association with leaf area index

DTC Cox, IMD Maclean, AS Gardner… - Global Change …, 2020‏ - Wiley Online Library
The impacts of the changing climate on the biological world vary across latitudes, habitats
and spatial scales. By contrast, the time of day at which these changes are occurring has …

Phyllosphere microorganisms: sources, drivers, and their interactions with plant hosts

N Xu, Q Zhao, Z Zhang, Q Zhang, Y Wang… - Journal of agricultural …, 2022‏ - ACS Publications
The leaves of plants are colonized by various microorganisms. In comparison to the
rhizosphere, less is known about the characteristics and ecological functions of …

Outdoor thermal comfort by different heat mitigation strategies-A review

M Taleghani - Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, 2018‏ - Elsevier
Due to the ongoing global warming, heat mitigation strategies are becoming implemented
through practice and simulations. These efforts aim to make the cities that are dealing with …

The road to recovery: a synthesis of outcomes from ecosystem restoration in tropical and sub-tropical Asian forests

LF Banin, EH Raine, LM Rowland… - … of the Royal …, 2023‏ - royalsocietypublishing.org
Current policy is driving renewed impetus to restore forests to return ecological function,
protect species, sequester carbon and secure livelihoods. Here we assess the contribution …

Canopy structure and topography jointly constrain the microclimate of human‐modified tropical landscapes

T Jucker, SR Hardwick, S Both, DMO Elias… - Global change …, 2018‏ - Wiley Online Library
Local‐scale microclimatic conditions in forest understoreys play a key role in sha** the
composition, diversity and function of these ecosystems. Consequently, understanding what …